1970 International Cross Country Championships

The 1970 International Cross Country Championships was held in Vichy, France, on March 22, 1970. An alternate women's championship was held one day earlier in Frederick, Maryland, United States at the VFW Country Club, on March 21, 1970. A report on the Vichy event[1] as well as on the Frederick event[2] was given in the Glasgow Herald.

1970 International Cross Country Championships
OrganisersICCU
Edition57th
DateMarch 22
Host cityVichy, Auvergne, France France
Frederick, Maryland, United States United States (alternate women's event)
VenueVFW Country Club (women, Frederick)
Events3 / 1
Distances7.5 mi / 12.1 km (men)
4.35 mi / 7.0 km (junior men)
1.9 mi / 3.0 km (women, Vichy)
2.5 mi / 4.0 km (women, Frederick)
Participation211 athletes from
17 nations

Complete results for men,[3] junior men,[4] women (Vichy),[5] women (Frederick),[6] medallists, [7] and the results of British athletes[8] were published.

Medallists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
Men
7.5 mi (12.1 km)
Mike Tagg
  England
36:39.8 Gaston Roelants
  Belgium
36:41.8 Trevor Wright
  England
36:44.6
Junior Men
4.35 mi (7.0 km)
John Hartnett
  Ireland
21:57.2 Jack Lane
  England
22:05.2 Eric de Beck
  Belgium
22:09.2
Women (Vichy)
1.9 mi (3.0 km)
Paola Pigni
  Italy
10:38.4 Zofia Kołakowska
  Poland
10:39.2 Ilja Keizer
  Netherlands
10:43.8
Women (Frederick)
2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Doris Brown
  United States
15:04 Rita Lincoln
  England
15:11 Thelma Fynn
  Canada
15:14
Team
Men   England 35   France 85   Belgium 136
Junior Men   England 15   Belgium 15   Italy 34
Women (Vichy)   Netherlands 19   France 39   Italy 45
Women (Frederick)   England 18   United States 46   Ireland 48

Individual Race Results

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Men's (7.5 mi / 12.1 km)

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time
  Mike Tagg   England 36:39.8
  Gaston Roelants   Belgium 36:41.8
  Trevor Wright   England 36:44.6
4 Dick Taylor   England 36:50.8
5 Noel Tijou   France 37:03.2
6 Ricky Wilde   England 37:07
7 Mike Turner   England 37:09.8
8 Abdelkader Zaddem   Tunisia 37:11
9 Javier Álvarez   Spain 37:14
10 René Jourdan   France 37:15
11 Lucien Rault   France 37:19
12 Lachie Stewart   Scotland 37:28
13 Emiel Puttemans   Belgium 37:29
14 Mike Baxter   England 37:30
15 Michel Bernard   France 37:36
16 Mhedheb Hannachi   Tunisia 37:37
17 Adelaziz Bouguerra   Tunisia 37:38
18 Bernie Plain   Wales 37:40
19 Joseph Prinsen   Belgium 37:44
20 Antoine Borowski   France 37:50
21 Derek Graham   Northern Ireland 37:53
22 John Caine   England 37:55
23 Grant McLaren   Canada 37:57
24 Jean-Pierre Ouine   France 37:58
25 Bill Mullett   Scotland 37:59
26 Giovanni Pizzi   Italy 38:01
27 Werner Dössegger    Switzerland 38:05
28 Juan Hidalgo   Spain 38:06
29 Achille Vaes   Belgium 38:07
30 Paul Thijs   Belgium 38:08
31 Jim Alder   Scotland 38:11
32 Ron Grove   England 38:12
33 Dave Ellis   Canada 38:13
34 Hamdouni Sghaier   Tunisia 38:16
35 Sean O'Sullivan   Ireland 38:18
36 Pat Gilseman   Ireland 38:19
37 Hamoud Ameur   France 38:20
38 Mohamed Kheddar   France 38:22
39 Renato Martini   Italy 38:23
40 Giuseppe Ardizzone   Italy 38:24
41 Bob Moore   Canada 38:25
42 Adrian Weatherhead   Scotland 38:27
43 André de Hertoghe   Belgium 38:29
44 Ali Khamassi   Tunisia 38:37
45 Dick Wedlock   Scotland 38:38
46 Norman Morrison   Scotland 38:39
47 André Ornelis   Belgium 38:44
48 Kenny Moore   United States 38:45
49 Johnny Dumon   Belgium 38:46
50 Brunello Bertolin   Italy 38:48
51 Tom Heinonen   United States 38:49
52 Tom O'Riordan   Ireland 38:51
53 Fernando Fernandez   Spain 38:53
54 Paddy Coyle   Ireland 38:54
55 Georg Kaiser    Switzerland 38:54
56 Giacomo Marietta   Italy 38:57
57 Gareth Bryan-Jones   Scotland 38:58
58 Jan Briers   Belgium 38:58
59 Mike Teer   Northern Ireland 38:59
60 Nigel Evans   Wales 39:02
61 Malcolm Thomas   Wales 39:02
62 Giuseppe Cindolo   Italy 39:07
63 Matt Murphy   Ireland 39:08
64 John Loeschhorn   United States 39:09
65 José Maiz   Spain 39:10
66 David Logue   Northern Ireland 39:14
67 Alan Joslyn   Wales 39:16
68 Labidi Ayachi   Tunisia 39:20
69 Carlos Pérez   Spain
70 Ray Haswell   Canada
71 Tony Simmons   Wales
72 Josef Wirth    Switzerland 39:22
73 Amor Lassoued   Tunisia
74 Osvaldo Segrada   Italy
75 Eddie Spillane   Ireland
76 Cliff Clark   United States
77 Albrecht Moser    Switzerland 39:34
78 Fernando Aguilar   Spain
79 Josef Fähndrich    Switzerland 39:36
80 Cyril Pennington   Northern Ireland
81 Primo Gretter   Italy
82 Pedro Sacristán   Spain
83 Fritz Schneider    Switzerland 39:46
84 Guy Texereau   France
85 Bill Stoddart   Scotland
86 Malcolm Edger   Northern Ireland
87 John Sheridan   Ireland
88 Hans Lang    Switzerland 40:03
89 Antonio Frechilla   Spain
90 John Mooney   Ireland
91 Paul Darney   Wales
92 Charles Messenger   United States
93 Bill Norris   United States
94 Jorge Gonzalez   Spain
95 Dave Bedford   England
96 Michel Jossen    Switzerland 40:27
97 Dave Surman   Canada
98 Alfred Chivers   Northern Ireland
99 David Walker   Wales
100 Jerry Tighe   Canada
101 Mick Goerke   Canada
102 Tom Price   Northern Ireland
103 Max Walti    Switzerland 41:49
Ian McCafferty   Scotland DNF
Umberto Risi   Italy DNF
Joe Scanlon   Ireland DNF
Timothy Hendricks   United States DNF

Junior Men's (4.35 mi / 7.0 km)

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time
  John Hartnett   Ireland 21:57.2
  Jack Lane   England 22:05.2
  Eric De Beck   Belgium 22:09.2
4 Eddy Van Mullem   Belgium 22:17.4
5 Colin Falconer   Scotland 22:25.4
6 Jim Milton   England 22:32.4
7 Graham Tuck   England 22:36.8
8 Willy Vanlaer   Belgium 22:39.8
9 Aldo Tomasini   Italy 22:41.8
10 Franco Fava   Italy 22:41.8
11 Francesco Silvestre   Spain 22:42
12 Grenville Tuck   England 22:49
13 Ronald MacDonald   Scotland 23:00
14 Kamel Guemar   Algeria 23:06
15 Franco Veronese   Italy 23:07
16 René Portier   France 23:08
17 Julien Devos   Belgium 23:09
18 Pol Quemener   France 23:09
19 William Burns   Scotland 23:10
20 Daniel Murphy   Ireland 23:11
21 Mario Gilardi   Italy 23:11
22 Marc Masselot   France 23:12
23 Eddie Leddy   Ireland 23:12
24 Ramon Sanchez   Spain 23:13
25 Douglas Gunstone   Scotland 23:14
26 Gérard Thomazo   France 23:18
27 Andres Jimeno   Spain 23:23
28 Chris Garforth   England 23:31
29 Attallah Djelloul   Algeria 23:38
30 Zygmunt Lyznicki   Poland 23:44
31 Leslie Irvine   Scotland 23:45
32 Blaise Schull    Switzerland 23:46
33 Philip Brennan   Ireland 23:48
34 Francisco Santamaria   Spain 23:51
35 Richard Umberg    Switzerland 23:55
36 Abdelhaziz Belhocine   Algeria 23:57
37 Etienne Sinic   France 23:58
38 Eduardo Perez   Spain 24:06
39 Howard Wallace   Ireland 24:08
40 Fritz Rüegsegger    Switzerland 24:24
41 Roland Gehrig    Switzerland 24:30
42 Bruno Ehrler    Switzerland 24:48
43 Ryszard Ciucias   Poland
44 Mohamed Salem   Algeria
Sid-Ali Djouadi   Algeria DNF
Paul Coulon   Belgium DNF
Armando Scozzari   Italy DNF

Women's (Vichy, 1.9 mi / 3.0 km)

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time
  Paola Pigni   Italy 10:38.4
  Zofia Kołakowska   Poland 10:39.2
  Ilja Keizer   Netherlands 10:43.8
4 Anneloes Bosman   Netherlands 10:54.4
5 Berny Lenferink   Netherlands 11:02
6 Nicole Chassagneux   France 11:03.6
7 Anneke de Lange   Netherlands 11:06.4
8 Teresa Testerini   Italy 11:15
9 Carla Joosten   Netherlands 11:15
10 Claudette Brouard   France 11:15
11 Joëlle Audibert   France 11:20
12 Eliane Rieuf   France 11:22
13 Krystyna Sladek   Poland 11:24
14 Josee van Santberghe   Belgium 11:26
15 Liève van den Broeck   Belgium 11:27
16 Zina Boniolo   Italy 11:32
17 Jadwiga Kalinowska   Poland 11:32
18 Françoise Valentini   France 12:14
19 Francine Peyskens   Belgium 12:19
20 Margherita Gargano   Italy 12:21
21 Marie-Claire Decroix   Belgium 12:24
22 Catherine Michaud   France 12:28
23 Barbara Rubaszewska   Poland 13:46

Women's (Frederick, 2.5 mi / 4.0 km)

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time
  Doris Brown   United States 15:04,4
  Rita Lincoln   England 15:11
  Thelma Fynn   Canada 15:14
4 Barbara Banks   England 15:21
5 Joan Page   England 15:25
6 Margaret MacSherry   Scotland 15:27
7 Gillian Tivey   England 15:30
8 Christine Haskett   Scotland 15:31
9 Ann O'Brien   Ireland 15:33
10 Peggy Mullins   Ireland 15:34
11 Jean Lochhead   Wales 15:35
12 Deirdre Foreman   Ireland 15:37
13 Francie Larrieu   United States 15:42
14 Pamela Bagian   United States 15:45
15 Sandra Harper   Canada 15:46
16 Joyce Smith   England 15:47
17 Jane McNicholl   Ireland 15:51
18 Cheryl Bridges   United States 16:02
19 Hope Bishop   Canada 16:06
20 Pat Lowe   England 16:08
21 Nancy Main   Canada 16:11
22 Bronwen Cardy   Wales 16:23
23 Gloria Dourass   Wales 16:24
24 Doreen Martins   Canada 16:28
25 Paula Molesky   Canada 16:33
26 Sheena Fitzmaurice   Scotland 16:56
27 Raie Thompson   Australia 16:47
28 Sandra Kirk   Scotland 16:56
29 Nuala Bowe   Ireland 17:06
30 Patricia Cole   United States 17:09
31 Delyth Davies   Wales 17:17
32 Shirley Springer   United States 17:18
33 Pamela John   Wales 17:29
34 Adrienne Beames   Australia 17:44

Team Results

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Men's

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Rank Country Team Points
1   England Mike Tagg
Trevor Wright
Dick Taylor
Ricky Wilde
Mike Turner
Mike Baxter
35
2   France Noel Tijou
René Jourdan
Lucien Rault
Michel Bernard
Antoine Borowski
Jean-Pierre Ouine
85
3   Belgium Gaston Roelants
Emiel Puttemans
Joseph Prinsen
Achille Vaes
Paul Thijs
André de Hertoghe
136
4   Tunisia Abdelkader Zaddem
Mhedheb Hannachi
Adelaziz Bouguerra
Hamdouni Sghaier
Ali Khamassi
Labidi Ayachi
187
5   Scotland Lachie Stewart
Bill Mullett
Jim Alder
Adrian Weatherhead
Dick Wedlock
Norman Morrison
201
6   Italy Giovanni Pizzi
Renato Martini
Giuseppe Ardizzone
Brunello Bertolin
Giacomo Marietta
Giuseppe Cindolo
273
7   Spain Javier Álvarez
Juan Hidalgo
Fernando Fernandez
José Maiz
Carlos Pérez
Fernando Aguilar
302
8   Ireland Sean O'Sullivan
Pat Gilseman
Tom O'Riordan
Paddy Coyle
Matt Murphy
Eddie Spillane
315
9   Canada Grant McLaren
Dave Ellis
Bob Moore
Ray Haswell
Dave Surman
Jerry Tighe
364
10   Wales Bernie Plain
Nigel Evans
Malcolm Thomas
Alan Joslyn
Tony Simmons
Paul Darney
368
11    Switzerland Werner Dössegger
Georg Kaiser
Josef Wirth
Albrecht Moser
Josef Fähndrich
Fritz Schneider
393
12   Northern Ireland Derek Graham
Mike Teer
David Logue
Cyril Pennington
Malcolm Edger
Alfred Chivers
410
13   United States Kenny Moore
Tom Heinonen
John Loeschhorn
Cliff Clark
Charles Messenger
Bill Norris
424

Junior Men's

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Rank Country Team Points
1   England Jack Lane
Jim Milton
Graham Tuck
15
2   Belgium Eric De Beck
Eddy Van Mullem
Willy van Laer
15
3   Italy Aldo Tomasini
Franco Fava
Franco Veronese
34
4   Scotland Colin Falconer
Ronald MacDonald
William Burns
37
5   Ireland John Hartnett
Daniel Murphy
Eddie Leddy
44
6   France René Portier
Pol Quemener
Marc Masselot
56
7   Spain Francesco Silvestre
Ramon Sanchez
Andres Jimeno
62
8   Algeria Kamel Guemar
Attallah Djelloul
Abdelhaziz Belhocine
79
9    Switzerland Blaise Schull
Richard Umberg
Fritz Rüegsegger
107

Women's (Vichy)

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Rank Country Team Points
1   Netherlands Ilja Keizer
Anneloes Bosman
Berny Lenferink
Anneke de Lange
19
2   France Nicole Chassagneux
Claudette Brouard
Joëlle Audibert
Eliane Rieuf
39
3   Italy Paola Pigni
Teresa Testerini
Zina Boniolo
Margherita Gargano
45
4   Poland Zofia Kołakowska
Krystyna Sladek
Jadwiga Kalinowska
Barbara Rubaszewska
55
5   Belgium Josee van Santberghe
Liève van den Broeck
Francine Peyskens
Marie-Claire Decroix
69

Women's (Frederick)

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Rank Country Team Points
1   England Rita Lincoln
Barbara Banks
Joan Page
Gillian Tivey
18
2   United States Doris Brown
Francie Larrieu
Pamela Bagian
Cheryl Bridges
46
3   Ireland Ann O'Brien
Peggy Mullins
Deirdre Foreman
Jane McNicholl
48
4   Canada Thelma Fynn
Sandra Harper
Hope Bishop
Nancy Main
58
5   Scotland Margaret MacSherry
Christine Haskett
Sheena Fitzmaurice
Sandra Kirk
68
6   Wales Jean Lochhead
Bronwen Cardy
Gloria Dourass
Delyth Davies
87

Participation

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An unofficial count yields the participation of 211 athletes from 17 countries.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Tagg Leads English to Victory - Mike Tagg won the International Cross-Country Championship today, leading England to that first double of individual and team titles since 1963..., Glasgow Herald, March 23, 1970, p. 4, retrieved October 4, 2013
  2. ^ Miss MacSherry sixth in America - Margaret MacSherry, the 19-year-old Scottish Internationalist, who runs for Cambridge Harriers, gave one of the most impressive performances ever by a Scottish runner at the women's International Cross-Country Championship on Saturday at Frederick, Maryland..., Glasgow Herald, March 23, 1970, p. 4, retrieved October 4, 2013
  3. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), International Cross Country Championships - 12.1km CC Men - Vichy Date: Sunday, March 22, 1970, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on August 6, 2007, retrieved October 4, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (January 20, 2006), International Cross Country Championships - 7.0km CC Men - Vichy Date: Sunday, March 22, 1970, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on May 17, 2006, retrieved October 4, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (January 20, 2006), International Cross Country Championships - 3.0km CC Women - Vichy Date: Sunday, March 22, 1970, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 4, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (March 22, 2005), INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - 4.0km CC Women - Senior - Frederick VFW Country Club Saturday March 21, 1970, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on April 4, 2005, retrieved October 4, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved September 24, 2013
  8. ^ 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 13ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved September 24, 2013