Athletics Ireland is pleased to announce the following teams for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland in two weeks time.

The women's team is led by 1988 Olympian Anne Keenan-Buckley, who has been named for her twelfth World Cross Country Championships and is now only one short of the record of thirteen set by Dubliner Deirdre Nagle in the seventies and eighties.

The men's team is led by Robert Connolly who was an impressive victor at the Rás na hÉireann International in Dunleer at the weekend ahead of Belfast man Dermot Donnelly.

The team will be managed by 1984 Olympic marathoner Jerry Kiernan, coach to both McCambridge and Connolly. Thanks to AAI's Pierce O'Callaghan for this report.

Senior Men Short Course Team (4km)
Robert Connolly (Dundrum South Dublin)
Dermot Donnelly (Annandale Striders)
Martin McCarthy (Leevale)
Gary Murray (St. Malachy's)
Nigel Brunton (Clonliffe Harriers)
Noel Berkeley (Dundrum South Dublin)
Reserves: Tristan Druet (Sligo) & Dermot Galvin (St. John's)

Senior Women Short Course Team
Anne Keenan Buckley (North Laois)
Maria McCambrige (Dundrum South Dublin)
Valerie Vaughan (Blarney Inniscarra)
Niamh Beirne (Lucan Harriers)
Una English (Dublin City Harriers)
Breeda Dennehy Willis (Bandon)
Reserves: Antoinette Kealy (Raheny Shamrocks) & Valerie McGovern (Donore Harriers)

Junior Men - Mark Christie (Mullingar Harriers)

Junior Women - Fionnuala Britton (Slí Chúlainn)

Team Manager Jerry Kiernan (Clonliffe Harriers)
Coaches: Theresa McDaid (Letterkenny), Jim Davis (Liffey Valley)
Physio - Neasa Smith

Click here for the Local Organising Committee's World Cross Country website.

Click here for IAAF's World Cross Country website.