2011 NACAC Cross Country Championships explained

2011 NACAC Cross Country Championships
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Organisers:	NACAC
Edition:	7th
Date:	February 19
Host City:	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Location:	Queen's Park Savannah
Nations Participating:	19
Athletes Participating:	118
Races:	4
Distances:	8 km – Senior men 6 km – Junior men (U20) 6 km – Senior women 4 km – Junior women (U20)
Previous:	2010 Mount Irvine
Next:	2012 Port of Spain

The 2011 NACAC Cross Country Championships was the seventh edition of the continental cross country running competition which took place on February 19 at Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. A total of 166 athletes took part in the event, hailing from a record high of 20 nations within the North America, Central America and Caribbean region.^[1]

The competition featured four races: an 8 km senior men's race, a 6 km senior women's race, a 6 km junior (under-20s) men's race and a 4 km junior women's race.^[2] The course for the championships followed a 2-kilometer grassy loop and was relatively flat throughout.^[3] Kenyan-born runner Robert Cheseret won the senior men's gold for the United States and also led the Americans to the team title. Canadian Kathryn Harrison secured the senior women's title, but the United States took the overall senior women's gold medals. Ross Proudfoot led a Canadian sweep of the medals in the junior men's race, while American Chelsea Orr was the junior women's gold medalist.^[1]

Medallists

Complete results were published.

Individual

Senior men's 8 km	23:43 min	23:46 min	23:51 min
Senior women's 6 km	20:19 min	20:22 min	20:24 min
Junior men's 6 km	18:27 min	18:29 min	18:29 min
Junior women's 4 km	13:54 min	14:00 min	14:02 min