EA Council gives 2024 SPAR Cross Country Champs to Antalya, Turkey

Europe is one of the early supporters of cross-country. The SPAR European Athletics Cross Country Championships is one of the largest continental cross-country championships, with 54 associations as members of the continental federation. The Championships are held each and every December, and the races are spectacular. The 2024 EA Champs will be held in Turkey for the first time.

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WARSZAWA (POL): The European Athletics Council has awarded the 2024 SPAR European Cross Country Championships to Antalya in Turkey. This will be the first time in event history that Turkey will have staged the championships, which are scheduled to take place on 8 December 2024.

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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