1960 International Cross Country Championships

The 1960 International Cross Country Championships was held in Hamilton, Scotland, at the Hamilton Park on 26 March 1960. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]

1960 International Cross Country Championships
Organisers	ICCU
Edition	47th
Date	26 March
Host city	Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Venue	Hamilton Park
Events	1
Distances	9 mi (14.5 km)
Participation	71 athletes from 8 nations
← 1959 Lissabon 1961 Nantes →

Complete results,^[2] medallists, ^[3] and the results of British athletes^[4] were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men 9 mi (14.5 km)	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam  Morocco	43:33	Gaston Roelants  Belgium	43:40	John Merriman  Wales	43:40
Team
Men	England	52	Belgium	61	France	125

Individual Race Results

Men's (9 mi / 14.5 km)

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam	Morocco	43:33
	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	43:40
	John Merriman	Wales	43:40
4	Basil Heatley	England	44:31
5	Henri Clerckx	Belgium	44:38
6	Fred Norris	England	44:42
7	Alastair Wood	Scotland	44:46
8	Frank Sando	England	44:49
9	Harry Minshall	England	44:53
10	Stanley Eldon	England	44:54
11	Hedwig Leenaert	Belgium	44:56
12	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	44:59
13	Hamoud Ameur	France	45:01
14	Georges Fromont	Belgium	45:03
15	Gerry North	England	45:04
16	Salah Beddiaf	France	45:09
17	Marcel Vandewattyne	Belgium	45:19
18	Alain Mimoun	France	45:22
19	Francis Duleau	France	45:23
20	David Richards Jun.	Wales	45:24
21	Brian Hill-Cottingham	England	45:26
22	Graham Everett	Scotland	45:27
23	Bruce Tulloh	Scotland	45:28
24	Julius Saenen	Belgium	45:29
25	Abdallah Ould Lamine	Morocco	45:30
26	Mohamed Ben Hassan	Morocco	45:31
27	Paul Genève	France	45:39
28	Carlos Pérez	Spain	45:47
29	John Anderson	England	46:00
30	Bakir Benaissa	Morocco	46:08
31	Bertie Messitt	Ireland	46:10
32	Henri Lucas	France	46:12
33	Alfonso Vidal	Spain	46:14
34	Andy Brown	Scotland	46:15
35	Frans van der Hoeven	Belgium	46:18
36	Luis García	Spain	46:21
37	Abdeslem Bouchta	Morocco	46:22
38	Louis van Praet	Belgium	46:23
39	José Fernández	Spain	46:26
40	Lahcen Benaissa	Morocco	46:32
41	Bert Irving	Scotland	46:35
42	Alan Perkins	England	46:39
43	Mohamed Bensaid	Morocco	46:41
44	Joe Connolly	Scotland	46:47
45	Stan Taylor	Scotland	46:53
46	Willie Dunne	Ireland	46:58
47	Peter Good	Ireland	47:04
48	Tommy Dunne	Ireland	47:05
49	Hamida Addéche	France	47:06
50	Enrique Moreno	Spain	47:11
51	Mohamed Ben Bouchaib	Morocco	47:19
52	Maurice Chiclet	France	47:21
53	Gerald McIntyre	Ireland	47:22
54	Mick Connolly	Ireland	47:23
55	Edward Sinclair	Scotland	47:27
56	Alastair Ross	Scotland	47:33
57	Antonio Amorós [ca]	Spain	47:37
58	Jaime Guixa	Spain	47:38
59	Mohamed Ben Mohamed	Morocco	47:42
60	Claude Clement	France	47:47
61	Tony Pumfrey	Wales	47:51
62	Harry Wilson	Wales	47:59
63	Frank White	Ireland	48:05
64	George Dennis	Ireland	48:22
65	John Kelly	Ireland	48:26
66	Bob Roath	Wales	48:44
67	Roger Harrison-Jones	Wales	48:48
68	Brian Jeffs	Wales	48:54
69	Jose Castro Ruibal	Spain	49:37
70	Ken Dare	Wales	50:12
71	Roy Profitt	Wales	51:53

Team Results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Points
1	England	Basil Heatley Fred Norris Frank Sando Harry Minshall Stanley Eldon Gerry North	52
2	Belgium	Gaston Roelants Henri Clerckx Hedwig Leenaert Eugène Allonsius Georges Fromont Marcel Vandewattyne	61
3	France	Hamoud Ameur Salah Beddiaf Alain Mimoun Francis Duleau Paul Genève Henri Lucas	125
4	Morocco	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam Abdallah Ould Lamine Mohamed Ben Hassan Bakir Benaissa Abdeslem Bouchta Lahcen Benaissa	159
5	Scotland	Alastair Wood Graham Everett Bruce Tulloh Andy Brown Bert Irving Joe Connolly	171
6	Spain	Carlos Pérez Alfonso Vidal Luis García José Fernández Enrique Moreno Antonio Amorós [ca]	243
7	Ireland	Bertie Messitt Willie Dunne Peter Good Tommy Dunne Gerald McIntyre Mick Connolly	279
8	Wales	John Merriman David Richards Jun. Tony Pumfrey Harry Wilson Bob Roath Roger Harrison-Jones	279

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 71 athletes from 8 countries.

•  Belgium (9)
•  England (9)
•  France (9)
•  Ireland (9)
•  Morocco (9)
•  Scotland (9)
•  Spain (8)
•  Wales (9)

See also

• 1960 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Cross-country - Moroccan's Fine Win - International Title - A. Rhadi (Morocco), the holder of the Moroccan and French cross-country championships, ran an excellent race and won the individual title in the forty-seventh annual nine-mile International race on Saturday at Hamilton..., Glasgow Herald, 31 March 1947, p. 4, retrieved 2 October 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (24 March 2007), INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - 14.5km CC Men - Glasgow Hamilton Park Date: Saturday, March 26, 1960, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 4 August 2007, retrieved 2 October 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 24 September 2013
4. 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 13ff, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013, retrieved 24 September 2013