Charity fundraisers taking part in Great Run events this year collectively raised the incredible sum of almost £54 million for good causes in 2016.

Isaac Kimeli and Andy Vernon headline the field of runners competing in the 24th edition of the Brussels Iris CrossCup, a European Athletics Cross Country Permit Race held on Sunday 18 December.

Team Europe will have five of the six gold medallists from Chia last weekend in their squad as they bid for glory in the first big event of 2017 – the Great Edinburgh XCountry.

In a repeat performance of their senior women less than an hour earlier in Chia, Aras Kaya and Polat Kemboi Arikan produced a one-two for Turkey in the final race of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships.

Yasemin Can completed her amazing year by winning double gold again on her 20th birthday in Chia as she led Turkey to glory in the senior women's race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships.

It is a brilliant sight in any race when three athletes are heading towards the finish line and it is impossible to pick a winner.

When you have the speed of a middle-distance runner and you find yourself close to the finish line in a major cross country event, there can be no greater asset.

Norway's most famous athletics family has another gold medallist in its ranks after a sensational performance from 16-year-old Jakob Ingebrigsten brought him victory in the men's under-20 race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Chia th...

Germany's Konstanze Klosterhalfen today became only the second woman to retain the women's junior title as she gave the SPAR European Cross Country Championships a stunning start in Chia.

In the space of three days in July, Turkey’s Yasemin Can won double gold at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam. Now, will she turn her 5000m and 10,000m glory from the summer into more success in Chia tomorrow?