Cross Zornotza

Organised by the Club Deportiva Zornotza,[1] the event began as a mainly national-level competition and it started to attract elite international competitors from the mid-1980s onwards.

[2] Zornotza has previously been an IAAF and European Athletics status meeting,[3][4] as well as being in the now-defunct IAAF World Cross Challenge circuit,[5] but is not currently part of an international cross country series.

The race suffered from economic problems leading up to the period around 2010, but organisers continued its focus of attracting some of the sport's top competitors.

[6] The competition's course, the Jauregibarria,[7] played host to the 1993 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Past winners of the elite race include two-time Olympic champion Derartu Tulu.