{"id":89182,"date":"2025-12-19T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89182\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:54:08","slug":"mixed-hopes-for-brits-at-world-cross-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89182\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed hopes for Brits at World Cross in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relay represents best chance of a medal shot for Great Britain as they send a 20-strong squad to Florida next month.<\/p>\n

US-based Brits feature prominently in the British team named on Friday (Dec 19) for the World Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee, Florida, on January 10.<\/p>\n

American-based duo George Couttie and Adam Fogg join Alex Millard and India Weir in the mixed relay team for the event. Last year in Belgrade, Fogg and Millard were part of the team that won bronze medals<\/a> and they will be hoping to make the podium again in Florida.<\/p>\n

The senior women’s team is led by Megan Keith, the Scottish athlete fresh from a fine second place behind Nadia Battocletti at the European Cross Country Championships in Portugal last week.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Nadia Battocletti leads the Euro Cross 2025 with Megan Keith (right) (Getty)<\/p>\n

The senior men’s team includes Rory Leonard and also US-based David Mullarky but there is no Scott Beattie following his close fourth place in Portugal.<\/p>\n

As expected, Innes FitzGerald is missing from the under-20 squad. The three-time European under-20 champion told AW at the Cardiff Cross in November that the World Cross wasn’t one of her big priorities ahead of an important 2026 track season.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: A look ahead to Tallahassee 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

In her absence, Eliza Nicholson, Zara Redmond, Maisey Bellwood and Kitty Scott will be looking for valuable experience, while Alex Lennon leads the under-20 men’s team hopes.<\/p>\n

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Senior women: Phoebe Anderson;\u00a0Megan Keith;\u00a0Verity Ockenden;\u00a0Poppy Tank<\/p>\n

Senior men: Jacob Cann;\u00a0Rory Leonard;\u00a0David Mullarkey;\u00a0Matthew Ramsden<\/p>\n

Mixed relay: George Couttie;\u00a0India Weir;\u00a0Adam Fogg;\u00a0Alex Millard<\/p>\n

U20 women: Maisey Bellwood;\u00a0Eliza Nicholson;\u00a0Zara Redmond;\u00a0Kitty Scott<\/p>\n

U20 men: Michael Clark;\u00a0Luke Dunham;\u00a0Jonson Hughes;\u00a0Alex Lennon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Relay represents best chance of a medal shot for Great Britain as they send a 20-strong squad to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-89182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}