CROSS COUNTRY RULES
Cross Country
1. Number of participants
Host schools need minimum equipment
1. Number of participants
- 5 girls and 5 boys in a category
- Day 1 - Individual girls and boys races
- Day 2 - Girls and boys team relay races
- Girls individual – 5 km
- Boys individual – 5km
- Girls and Boys team relays – five runners - distance between 2km and 4km (depending on course constraints)
- Individual Boys and Girls – gold, silver, bronze medals
- Overall team results - results to be arrived at by combinating positions of:
- Team scores from the individual race on Day 1 (top 4 to score)
- Relay event on day 2
- If a draw the winner will be the team who place higher in the team race on Day 1
- All-Tournament awards as per other SEASAC events
- accessible parking
- large area to gather
- toilets
- start and finish close to each other
- accessible to first aid
- safe surface
- wide enough for multiple runners
- appropriate challenge for age-group
- start and finish protocol follow the same accepted system
- start and finish areas close to each other
- marshals, signs and chalk at every turn-point
- lightning policy – of the host school will be adopted; if thunder occurs during a race the race continues and students clear as they finish
- central first aid provision – nurse + ambulance + wheelchair + stretcher
- first aid kits with every marshal
- 2-way radios with every marshal, medics and Race Director
- drinking water (some reusable cups should be provided for students who forget their bottle)
Host schools need minimum equipment
- first aid
- multiple print-out stopwatches (borrow if they haven’t got them)
- radios for all marshals, base and first aid (borrow if they haven’t got them)
- marshals in identifiable bibs
- position cards
- finish funnel
- enough water containers for the athletes, officials and spectators
- first aid
- admin – registration/results calculation
- starter assistant (place athletes on the line, final check)
- starter
- timekeeper and back-up for each race
- marshals – minimum of 2 on course, more as appropriate for younger runners and complicated courses
- funnel marshal
- place card judge