1971 International Cross Country Championships
Individual Race Results -- Men 's ( 7.5 mi / 12.1 km )
Table:
Rank
Athlete
Nationality
Time

Dave Bedford
England
38:42.8

Trevor Wright
England
39:05.2

Eddie Gray
New Zealand
39:11.6

4
Javier Álvarez
Spain
39:15.3

5
Peter Standing
England
39:19.4

6
Malcolm Thomas
Wales
39:22.8

7
Noel Tijou
France
39:29.3

8
Mariano Haro
Spain
39:38.5

9
Ian Stewart
Scotland
39:41.2

10
Rod Dixon
New Zealand
39:43.5

11
Pekka Päivärinta
Finland
39:44.7

12
Gaston Roelants
Belgium
39:45.3

13
Lucien Rault
France
39:50.2

14
René Goris
Belgium
39:54.1

15
Tony Simmons
England
39:55.2

16
Frank Briscoe
England
39:56.3

17
Andy Holden
England
39:57.2

18
Mike Beevor
England
39:58.3

19
Jan Wawrzuta
Poland
40:01.5

20
Tony Ashton
Wales
40:02.3

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David Colin Dave Bedford OBE ( born 30 December 1949 ) is an English former long-distance runner , whose athletic career spanned the early 1970s . Post retirement he served as race director of the London Marathon until 2012 , and is the Chairman of the IAAF Road Running Commission ( since 2012 ) , as well as sitting on the IAAF Cross Country Committee as the UK Athletics elected representative . Bedford held the 10,000 metres world record , improving it by 7.6 seconds with his time of 27 minutes 30.80 seconds in 1973 . He also held the British records for 3000 m steeplechase and 5000 metres . He usually ran in distinctive red socks , which later led to a well publicised dispute about the use of similarly attired runners in advertisements .
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north . The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea to the southwest . England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain , which lies in the North Atlantic , and includes over 100 smaller islands , such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight . It is the largest country of British Isles . The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period , but takes its name from the Angles , a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula , who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries . England became a unified state in the 10th century , and since the Age of Discovery , which began during the 15th century , has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world . The English language , the Anglican Church , and English law - the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world - developed in England , and the country 's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations . The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England , transforming its society into the world 's first industrialised nation . England 's terrain is chiefly low hills and plains , especially in central and southern England . However , there is upland and mountainous terrain in the north ( for example , the Lake District and Pennines ) and in the west ( for example , Dartmoor and the Shropshire Hills ) .
New Zealand ( Māori : Aotearoa [ aɔˈtɛaɾɔa ] ) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean . The country has two main landmasses - the North Island ( Te Ika-a-Māui ) , and the South Island ( Te Waipounamu ) - and around 600 smaller islands . It has a total land area of 268,000 square kilometres ( 103,500 sq mi ) . New Zealand is about 2,000 kilometres ( 1,200 mi ) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and 1,000 kilometres ( 600 mi ) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia , Fiji , and Tonga . Because of its remoteness , it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans . During its long period of isolation , New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal , fungal , and plant life . The country 's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks , such as the Southern Alps , owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions . New Zealand 's capital city is Wellington , and its most populous city is Auckland . Sometime between 1250 and 1300 , Polynesians settled in the islands and developed a distinctive Māori culture . In 1642 , Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight New Zealand . In 1840 , representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi , which declared British sovereignty over the islands . In 1841 , New Zealand became a colony within the British Empire and in 1907 it became a dominion ; it gained full statutory independence in 1947 and the British monarch remained the head of state .
Javier Alvarez ( born 18 December 1943 ) is a Spanish former long-distance runner , born in Vigo , who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics .
Spain ( Spanish : España [ esˈpaɲa ] ( listen ) ) , officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Spanish : Reino de España ) , [ a ] [ b ] is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of Spanish territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean . Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula . Its territory also includes two archipelagoes : the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa , and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea . The African enclaves of Ceuta , Melilla , and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country ( Morocco ) . [ h ] Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory . The country 's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . With an area of 505,990 km2 ( 195,360 sq mi ) , Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe , the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union , and the fourth largest country in the European continent . By population ( about 47 million ) , Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the European Union . Spain 's capital and largest city is Madrid ; other major urban areas include Barcelona , Valencia , Seville , Zaragoza , Málaga and Bilbao . Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago . Iberian cultures along with ancient Phoenician , Greek , Celtic and Carthaginian settlements developed on the peninsula until it came under Roman rule around 200 BCE , after which the region was named Hispania , based on the earlier Phoenician name Sp ( a ) n or Spania . At the end of the Western Roman Empire the Germanic tribal confederations migrated from Central Europe , invaded the Iberian peninsula and established relatively independent realms in its western provinces , including the Suebi , Alans and Vandals .
Wales ( Welsh : Cymru [ ˈkəmri ] ( listen ) ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It is bordered by England to the east , the Irish Sea to the north and west , and the Bristol Channel to the south . It had a population in 2011 of 3,063,456 and has a total area of 20,779 km2 ( 8,023 sq mi ) . Wales has over 1,680 miles ( 2,700 km ) of coastline and is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas , including Snowdon ( Yr Wyddfa ) , its highest summit . The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . Welsh national identity emerged among the Britons after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century , and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations . Llywelyn ap Gruffudd 's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England 's conquest of Wales , though Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to Wales in the early 15th century . The whole of Wales was annexed by England and incorporated within the English legal system under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 . Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century . Welsh Liberalism , exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George , was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party . Welsh national feeling grew over the century ; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and the Welsh Language Society in 1962 . Established under the Government of Wales Act 1998 , the National Assembly for Wales holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters .
Noël Tijou ( born 12 December 1941 ) is a French long-distance runner . He competed in the men 's 10,000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics .
France ( French : [ fʁɑ̃s ] ( listen ) ) , officially the French Republic ( French : République française , pronounced [ ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛːz ] ( listen ) ) , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . [ XIII ] The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . It is bordered by Belgium , Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast , Switzerland and Italy to the east , and Andorra and Spain to the south . The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . The country 's 18 integral regions ( five of which are situated overseas ) span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres ( 248,573 sq mi ) and a total population of 67.02 million ( as of July 2019 [ update ] ) . France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris , the country 's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban areas include Lyon , Marseille , Toulouse , Bordeaux , Lille and Nice . France , including its overseas territories , has the most number of time zones of any country , with a total of 12 . During the Iron Age , what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls , a Celtic people . Rome annexed the area in 51 BC , holding it until the arrival of Germanic Franks in 476 , who formed the Kingdom of Francia . The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned Francia into East Francia , Middle Francia and West Francia . West Francia , which became the Kingdom of France in 987 , emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages , following its victory in the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337-1453 ) .
Mariano Haro Cisneros ( born May 27 , 1940 ) is a former Spanish athlete , competing in the long-distance events . He was born in Becerril de Campos . Haro ran almost compulsively using his gifted legs to run errands and handle odd jobs . [ citation needed ] He soon became prominently competitive in a sport he hardly chose . In the 1960s he won almost every 5,000 and 10,000 meter event held in Spain . [ citation needed ] His closest Spanish competitor was Javier Alvarez Salgado . Haro placed 4th in the 10,000-meter 1972 Summer Olympics final at Munich in an epic battle against Lasse Virén , Emiel Puttemans , Miruts Yifter , and Frank Shorter . He qualified for the 5,000-meter final in those Games , but defaulted at the eleventh hour . He also competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics at the age of 36 , placing 6th in the 10,000-meter event . Traditionally a cross-country runner , he was runner-up in the Cross World Championships in 1972 , 1973 , 1974 and 1975 ; a Spanish National Cross champion from 1971 through 1977 ; and two-time winner of the International Lasarte Cross Country race in 1974 and 1975 . Haro held Spanish national records in all distances from 1,500 meters to 20 km . He also still holds the Spanish record in the hour race .
Ian Stewart ( born 15 January 1949 ) is a Scottish former long-distance running athlete . Ian Stewart was one of the world 's leading distance runners between the late 1960s and mid-1970s . Stewart won the bronze medal in the Men 's 5000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich ( a race won by Lasse Virén ) . Stewart also won the following championships : European 5,000 metres ( 1969 ) , Commonwealth 5,000 metres ( 1970 ) , European Indoor ( 1969 and 1975 ) and World Cross Country ( 1975 ) . In 1965 , at 16 years of age , he ran a British age best of 9.12.8 for 2 miles and two years later set a European junior 3 miles record of 13.39.8 . In 1968 , he broke European junior records at four distances : 3000m , 2 miles , 3 miles and 5000m . Moving up to the senior ranks in 1969 , Stewart took the European Indoor 3000m title in a UK record ( 7.55.4 ) , claiming the AAA 5000m title ( 13.39.66 ) and then winning 5000m gold at the 1969 European Athletics Championships in Athens in a time of 13.44.8 . In 1970 , Stewart set a European record and world 's season best time when he recorded 13:22:8 to win the Commonwealth Games 5,000 metres title . This was one of the greatest races of all time and he defeated current world record holder Ron Clarke , Olympic 1,500 metres champion Kip Keino and fellow Scot , Ian McCafferty . Stewart produced a last lap of 54.4 , Keino and Clarke could only finish 3rd and 5th , respectively . The 1971 campaign proved an anti-climax as illness and injuries halted his progress , he was back to full fitness in the Olympic year of 1972 . In the Olympic 5000 metres final , he suffered a heavy knock from American Steve Prefontaine on the last lap but produced an amazing burst in the home straight to gain the bronze medal ( 13.27.6 ) , the Finn , Lasse Viren , took gold in 13.26.4 .
Scotland ( Scots : Scotland , Scottish Gaelic : Alba [ ˈal̪ˠapə ] ( listen ) ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain , with a border with England to the southeast , and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west , the North Sea to the northeast , the Irish Sea to the south , and more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the European Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707 . By inheritance in 1603 , James VI , King of Scots , became king of England and Ireland , thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms . Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain . The union also created a new Parliament of Great Britain , which succeeded both the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England . In 1801 , Great Britain entered into a political union with Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( in 1922 , the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom , leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927 ) . Within Scotland , the monarchy of the United Kingdom has continued to use a variety of styles , titles and other royal symbols of statehood specific to the pre-union Kingdom of Scotland . The legal system within Scotland has also remained separate from those of England and Wales and Northern Ireland ; Scotland constitutes a distinct jurisdiction in both public and private law . The continued existence of legal , educational , religious and other institutions distinct from those in the remainder of the UK have all contributed to the continuation of Scottish culture and national identity since the 1707 union with England . In 1997 , a Scottish Parliament was re-established , in the form of a devolved unicameral legislature comprising 129 members , having authority over many areas of domestic policy . The head of the Scottish Government is the first minister of Scotland , who is supported by the deputy first minister of Scotland .
Rodney Phillip Rod Dixon ( born 13 July 1950 ) is a former New Zealand middle- to long-distance runner . He won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 1972 Olympics in Munich , and in 1983 won the New York City Marathon .
Pekka Johannes Päivärinta ( born 4 May 1949 in Aura ) is a Finnish former long-distance runner . He won men 's senior race in the first World Championships of cross-country running in 1973 . He competed in 1972 Olympics at 3000-meter steeplechase finishing 8th . In 1976 Olympics he competed in 5000 meters and finished 13th . In 1975 he broke world record in 25000 meters running by his result 1:14:16,8 . The record was broken by Bill Rodgers in 1979 . Contrary to his fellow Finnish long-distance runner - and age mate - Lasse Virén , Päivärinta underachieved in the major outdoor international championships of his active running career . On the other hand , he defeated Virén several times in the local and national Finnish races . One apparent obstacle to his success in the major international championships was that he ran badly in hot and humid conditions . This would partly explain his nineteenth place at 10,000 metres and thirteenth place at 5,000 metres in the 1974 European Athletics Championships , and his dropping out of the 10,000-metre heats in the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics .
Finland ( Finnish : Suomi [ ˈsuo̯mi ] ( listen ) ; Swedish : Finland [ ˈfɪ̌nland ] ( listen ) , Finland Swedish : [ ˈfinlɑnd ] ) , officially the Republic of Finland ( Finnish : Suomen tasavalta , Swedish : Republiken Finland ( listen to all ) ) , [ note 1 ] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea , Gulf of Bothnia , and Gulf of Finland , between Sweden to the west , Russia to the east , Estonia to the south , and north-eastern Norway to the north . The capital and largest city is Helsinki . Other major cities are Espoo , Tampere , Vantaa , Oulu , Turku , Jyväskylä , Lahti and Kuopio . Finland 's population is 5.52 million as of July 2019 , the majority of whom live in the central and south of the country and speak Finnish , a Finnic language from the Uralic language family , unrelated to the Scandinavian languages . Finland is the eighth-largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union . It is a parliamentary republic of 310 municipalities , and includes an autonomous region , the Åland Islands . Over 1.4 million people live in the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area , which produces one third of the country 's GDP . Swedish is the second official language of Finland , which is mainly spoken in certain coastal areas and on Åland . A large majority of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church . Finland was inhabited when the last ice age ended , approximately 9000 BC . Comb Ceramic culture introduced pottery 5200 BC and Corded Ware culture coincided with the start of agriculture between 3000 and 2500 BC . The Bronze Age and Iron Age were characterised by extensive contacts with other cultures in the Fennoscandian and Baltic regions .
Gaston , Baron Roelants ( born 5 February 1937 ) , a Belgian former elite steeplechaser and cross country runner . He won the 1962 European and 1964 Olympic titles in the 3000 m steeplechase and twice broke the world record .
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Lucien Rault ( borm March 30 , 1936 in Plouguenast ) is a French long-distance runner . He represented France in the 1976 Olympics at the age of 40 . He had an extensive career in cross country running with his national squad at the International Cross Country Championships and then the IAAF World Cross Country Championships . Five days before his 42nd birthday , he was the # 2 runner on the French World Championship team at the 1978 IAAF World Cross Country Championships , his first world championship . He is the current ratified world record holder in the masters M45 5000 metres . He has also held the M35 and M40 records and the M35 and M40 records at 10000 metres . He began running at age 15 . He ran in the 1964 , 1968 , 1969 , 1970 , 1971 , and 1972 International Cross Country Championships , then the 1974 , 1975 , 1976 and 1978 IAAF World Cross Country Championships , culminating with the championship . He also won the 1973 Corrida de Houilles . He had an example of longevity from his teammate on the early cross country teams as Olympic gold medalist Alain Mimoun was setting records into his 50s . Rault later surpassed some of Mimoun 's records . He won his first French national Championship at 10000 metres in 1973 , at the age of 37 .
Anthony 'Tony ' Derrick Simmons ( born 6 October 1948 ) is a male former athlete .
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Poland ( Polish : Polska [ ˈpɔlska ] ( listen ) ) , officially the Republic of Poland ( Polish : Rzeczpospolita Polska [ c ] [ ʐɛt͡ʂpɔˈspɔlita ˈpɔlska ] ( listen ) ) , is a country located in Central Europe . It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres ( 120,733 sq mi ) , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With a population of nearly 38.5 million people , Poland is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union . Poland 's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw . Other major cities include Kraków , Łódź , Wrocław , Poznań , Gdańsk , and Szczecin . Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea , Lithuania , and Russia 's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north , Belarus and Ukraine to the east , Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south , and Germany to the west . The history of human activity on Polish soil spans almost 500,000 years . Throughout the Iron Age the area became extensively diverse , with various cultures and tribes settling on the vast Central European Plain . However , it was the Western Polans who dominated the region and gave Poland its name . The establishment of Polish statehood can be traced to AD 966 , when Mieszko I , ruler of the realm coextensive with the territory of present-day Poland , converted to Christianity . The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025 , and in 1569 it cemented its longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin . This union formed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , one of the largest ( over 1,000,000 square kilometres - 400,000 square miles ) and most populous countries of 16th and 17th century Europe , with a uniquely liberal political system which adopted Europe 's first written national constitution , the Constitution of 3 May 1791 .