2016 European Cross Country Championships 2016 European Cross Country Championships The 2016 European Cross Country Championships was the 23rd edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Chia, Italy. Aras Kaya won the men's senior title, making it three straight victories for Turkey in that event, following in the footsteps of fellow Kenyan-Turkish runners Polat Kemboi Arıkan and Ali Kaya. Yasemin Can, became Turkey's first senior women's winner and also led her nation to the team title. Great Britain were the most successful in the team races, claiming the senior men's, under-23 women's and junior women's titles; the country
Oliver Onions Yorkshire, England). He studied art for three years in London at the National Arts Training Schools (now the Royal College of Art). In the book "Twentieth Century Authors", Onions described his interests as motoring and science; he was also an amateur boxer as a young man. In 1909, he married the writer Berta Ruck (1878–1978), and they had two sons, Arthur (b. 1912) and William (b. 1913). In 1918, he legally changed his name to George Oliver but continued to publish under the name Oliver Onions. He died on 9 April 1961 in Aberystwyth, Wales. Originally trained as a commercial