2015 European Cross Country Championships Both senior individual runners were non-European born (Kenya for Kaya and Ethiopia for Hassan). All of the top five finishers in the men's race were born outside Europe. 2015 European Cross Country Championships The 2015 European Cross Country Championships was the 22nd edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Hyères, France. The 2014 runner-up Ali Kaya took the men's senior title, retaining the crown for Turkey. Spain, led by 2013 champion Alemayehu Bezabeh, returned to the top of the team rankings in that category. Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands was the women's senior
Lake Naivasha Country Club the shadow of Mount Longonot, 2,777 m (9,111 ft), a dormant volcano which, in 1983, was declared a Kenyan national park (52 km²). Mount Longonot also can be seen from the eastern escarpment on the scenic highway to the region. The Lake Naivasha Country Club opened in 1937 as an intermediate staging post for Imperial Airways' flying boat (seaplane) service travelling from Durban to London. Previously known as the "Lake Hotel" in the 1930s, there were papyrus-thatched chalets. The area was popular with members of the Happy Valley set during the years between the World Wars. Also on the shores