2016 African Cross Country Championships

It was held on 12 March at the Yaounde Golf Club in Yaoundé, Cameroon – the first time a West African nation had hosted the event since its re-launch in 2011.

[1] For a fourth successive time, Kenya dominated the event, led by men's winner James Gitahi Rungaru and women's winner Alice Aprot Nawowuna.

The country also provided the junior winners (Miriam Cherop and Isaac Kipsang) and topped the team podium in all four races.

Kenya swept the medals on the women's side, including a perfect score of ten in the junior race.

The competition had reduced international participation, with only 16 nations sending athletes – eight fewer than had done so in 2014.