Jan Meda International Cross Country

Jan Meda International Cross Country
Date	January/February
Location	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Event type	Cross country
Distance	12 km for men 8 km for women 8 km for junior men 6 km for junior women

The Jan Meda International Cross Country is an annual cross country running competition held at the Jan Meda Race Course in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Typically held in January or February, the event serves as the national championship for Ethiopia and doubles as the national trials for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Matching the world programme, the Jan Meda International holds four races, with senior and junior (under-20) races for both sexes. Similarly, the event featured a senior men's and women's short race over 4 km from 1998 to 2006, when that was a World Championship distance.^[1]

The same race course venue is used for the municipal Addis Ababa championships and the national cross country clubs championships.^[2][3][4] The 2004 and 2009 editions of the national championships doubled as the East African Cross Country Championships.^[5][6]

Past senior race winners

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (m:s)	Women's winner	Time (m:s)
13th	1996	Habte Jifar	36:30[7]	Derartu Tulu	20:55[8]
14th	1997	?	?	?	?
15th	1998	?	?	?	?
16th	1999	Tesfaye Tola	36:20[9]	Gete Wami	27:50[10]
17th	2000	?	?	Derartu Tulu[11]	?
18th	2001[12]	Dejene Berhanu	?	Gete Wami	?
19th	2002[13]	Haile Gebrselassie	35:42	Leila Aman	?
20th	2003[1]	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	35:32.10	Werknesh Kidane	27:02.82
21st	2004[5]	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	36:52.64	Werknesh Kidane	28:14.44
22nd	2005[14]	Abebe Dinkesa	35:17	Tirunesh Dibaba	26:46
23rd	2006[15][16]	Abebe Dinkesa	35:30	Meselech Melkamu	27:54
24th	2007[17]	Tadese Tola	35:13.21	Meselech Melkamu	26:51.71
25th	2008[18]	Abebe Dinkesa	?	Gelete Burka	25:15
26th	2009[19]	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	?	Wude Ayalew	?
27th	2010[20]	Azmeraw Bekele	37:23	Meselech Melkamu	27:36
28th	2011[21]	Hunegnaw Mesfin	32:20	Meselech Melkamu	21:23
29th	2012	?	?	?	?
30th	2013[22]	Feyisa Lilesa	34:36	Hiwot Ayalew	26:22
31st	2014[23]	Yassin Hassen	35:20.4	Genet Yalew	25:37.9
32nd	2015[24]	Tamirat Tola	35:08	Genet Yalew	26:09
33rd	2016[25]	Getaneh Molla	35:37	Enatnesh Alamirew	27:27

Short race

Year	Men's winner	Women's winner
1998	?	?
1999[26]	Hailu Mekonnen	Gete Wami
2000	?	?
2001	Hailu Mekonnen	Werknesh Kidane
2002	Kenenisa Bekele	Werknesh Kidane
2003	Hailu Mekonnen	Tirunesh Dibaba
2004	Dejene Berhanu	Werknesh Kidane
2005[27]	Dejene Berhanu	Meselech Melkamu
2006	Ali Abdosh	Gelete Burka

See also

• African Cross Country Championships

References

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