The 2024 World Cross Country (XC) Championships are here, and Athletics Canada has sent a full team of 28 runners to compete in Belgrade, Serbia, on Saturday. The team comprises some of the top U20 and senior-level distance runners from across Canada, who will compete against some of the world’s best, including Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, and the reigning world XC champions Beatrice Chebet and Jacob Kiplimo at Belgrade’s Friendship Park on the banks of the Danube.
How to watch?
For those interested, the 2024 World XC Championships can be streamed live on World Athletics Inside Track. Canadians can tune in to CBC Sports and the CBC Gem app for live coverage starting with the U20 races at 5:30 a.m. ET, followed by the senior races at 7:45 a.m. ET for women and 8:30 a.m. ET for men.
Here is a list of the Canadian athletes competing in each race:
Senior men’s 10K
- Andrew Alexander (2023 TCS Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon champion) ***
- Connor Black (2022 Canadian XC Champion)
- Jeremy Coughler (2023 Canadian 10,000m champion) ***
- Andrew Davies (2023 U Sports XC bronze medallist)
- Thomas Fafard
- Philippe Morneau-Cartier (2023 U Sports XC champion)
- Mike Tate
- Max Turek (2022 U Sports XC champion)
*** alternate
Senior women’s 10K
- Katelyn Ayers
- Kate Bazeley (2023 Canadian XC bronze medallist)
- Makenna Fitzgerald ***
- Kiana Gibson ***
- Mikaela Lucki
- Katie Newlove (2023 U Sports XC champion)
- Leslie Sexton (fifth-fastest Canadian women’s marathon in history 2:28:14)
- Glynis Sim (2022 U Sports XC champion)
*** alternate
U20 men’s 8K
- Léo Bedard
- Elliot Belanger (2023 U20 3,000m steeplechase runner-up)
- Kamran Brar
- Charles Gendron-Jette
- Ian McAllister (two-time OFSAA XC champion)
- Angus Skinner
U20 women’s 6K
- Stephanie Bertram (NACAC U18 1,500m silver medallist)
- Béatrice Filion
- Abby Lewis
- Muriel Lovshin (44th – 2023 World XC Championships)
- Charlotte Sinke (U20 3,000m champion/Pan-Am U20 Championships silver medallist)
- Chloe Turner (U20 Canadian XC champion)
For the full schedule and results from the 2024 World Cross Country Championships.
