{"id":584570,"date":"2025-11-21T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/584570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:12:26","slug":"central-and-edinburgh-uni-win-our-cross-country-team-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/584570\/","title":{"rendered":"Central and Edinburgh Uni win our Cross Country Team Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"meta-date\">Friday 21st November 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"707\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5998-707x469.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-home size-home wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Central AC are our Men\u2019s division Cross Country Team Challenge winners after team golds at the Lindsays Short Course XC (photo via social media)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CCTC-2025-R3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCTC 2025 R3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Central AC<\/strong> and<strong> Edinburgh Uni Hares and Hounds<\/strong> are our winners in the Cross Country Team Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Victory for Central at the<strong> Lindsays Short Course XC<\/strong> at Lanark gave them maximum points in the Men\u2019s Division.<\/p>\n<p>And Edinburgh Uni\u2019s win that day in the Senior Women\u2019s race delivered the added bonus of top place in the Women\u2019s Division.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to athletes, coaches and Team Managers at both clubs on Team Challenge success.<\/p>\n<p>Central men totalled 50 points to win from Edinburgh Uni (44 points) and Aberdeen AAC (43). Completing the top five were Glasgow Uni and Cambuslang Harriers.<\/p>\n<p>The same five club featured in the top five in the Women\u2019s division.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh Uni totalled 48 to win from Aberdeen AAC (44) and Central AC (39). Completing the top five were Cambuslang Harriers and Glasgow Uni.<\/p>\n<p>Our two winning clubs will each receive \u00a3250 in prize-money.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to clubs entering Senior athletes from the Lindsays Cross Country Season events this autumn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/events\/leagues-and-grands-prix\/xc-team-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cross Country Team Challenge page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>With thanks to Angela Mudge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/580686221_1260952892725841_479576709099303940_n.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-111223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/580686221_1260952892725841_479576709099303940_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Senior Women\u2019s team podium at Lanark (photo by Angela Mudge)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/central-ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central AC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/cross-country-team-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cross Country Team Challenge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishathletics.org.uk\/tag\/edinburgh-uni-hares-and-hounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh Uni Hares and Hounds<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday 21st November 2025 Central AC are our Men\u2019s division Cross Country Team Challenge winners after team golds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-584570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115587393424724197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}