Bupa Great Edinburgh XCountry 2014 featuring Kenenisa Bekele, Asbel Kiprop

http://www.greatrun.org/ Bupa Great Edinburgh X-Country. Watch Highlights of the Bupa Great Edinburgh XCountry in Holyrood Park Edimburgh.

The event included an international invitational race featuring Olympic Champion Kenenisa Bekele and World Champion over 1500m Asbel Kiprop.

The event also included a trilling team competition, pitting Team GB and NI, Team USA and Team Europe against each other in exciting Junior and Senior races over the long course.

A fantastic display by Great Britain's women in the last race of the day over six kilometres saw them elevate the GB&NI team from overall third to victory in the International Team Challenge, ahead of the rest of Europe and the USA.

Team captain Gemma Steel roared to a nine second success in 20:35, denying Team Europe (and Ireland's) Fionnuala Britton, a third consecutive win, while Emelia Gorecka on her senior cross country debut, was a brilliant third in 20:51.

Chris Derrick of Team USA dominated the 8km competition to win in a time of 24:11. Behind him was Great Britain's Andy Vernon who was 10sec in arrears and held off Belgium's Bashir Abdi by six seconds.

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