{"id":234400,"date":"2026-01-08T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:26:10","slug":"team-ireland-arrive-in-usa-for-world-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234400\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Ireland arrive in USA for World Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish team has landed in Florida ahead of Saturday&#8217;s World Cross Country Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Fay, Fiona Everard, Niamh Allen and Noah Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/athletics\/2025\/1217\/1549545-ireland-name-team-for-world-cross-country-championships\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will represent Ireland at the 46th edition of the event<\/a>, which returns to the United States for the first time since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The course terrain at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee is set to feature sand, water, mud, and a signature &#8216;rollercoaster\u2019 element.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Harris, the 18-year-old from Wicklow who is currently studying at the University of Tennessee, is first up in the men\u2019s Under-20 race at 3.55pm Irish time.<\/p>\n<p>The senior women\u2019s race begins at 4.35pm with Everard and Allen flying the Irish flag.<\/p>\n<p>Everard returns to this stage having finished 60th in last year\u2019s event, and enjoyed a top-10 finish at the European Cross Country in December.<\/p>\n<p>Leevale\u2019s Allen is making her World debut having finished 23rd in the Europeans in Lagoa, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Olympian Fay comes into the men\u2019s event (5.20pm Irish time) on the back of a memorable 2025 cross country season.<\/p>\n<p>The Raheny Shamrock club man won the national title in November before a month later being a scoring member of the Irish team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/athletics\/2025\/1214\/1548962-silver-for-irish-mens-team-in-euro-cross-country-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won a historic silver medal at the European Cross Country Championships<\/a>, the first by an Irish senior men\u2019s team in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>This will be his debut appearance at the World Cross Country Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish team has landed in Florida ahead of Saturday&#8217;s World Cross Country Championships. Brian Fay, Fiona Everard,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-234400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}