Entry Information

Entry Dates and Costs

Entries open Tuesday 26 November 2019 
Entries close for student/competitiors on Tuesday 14 January 2020 at 11:59pm.

Institutional Administrators have 48 hours after the student/ competitor deadline to approve entries.

Stage Two

Should the competition allow more entries, a stage two entry window will open for students only. Alumni entries will not reopen.

Stage two window: Friday 17 January - Tuesday 21 January 2020

Priority will be given to the entries received before the stage one entry closing date. Entries received in the stage two window and accepted into the competition, will be charged an additional 20% fee.

Entry Costs:

Individual entry: £14.00

Alumni entry: £16.75

Alumni entries will be emailed to make their payment. Please look at the alumni dropdown for information on that.

Late Entries will not be accepted into this competition, regardless of reason.

BUCS Points

Individual Championships (Men’s and Women’s Individual Long Race)
BUCS Points available for the aforementioned categories for individual championships are:

  • 1st place: 12 points 
  • 2nd place: 8 points 
  • 3rd place: 6 points
  • 4th place: 4 points


Overall Team (Men’s and Women’s Long Race)

Overall Team = The top four finishers placings will determine the men's overall team result and the top three finishers placings will determine the women's overall team result. Only one team per university to count in the results.

BUCS Points will not be allocated where the minimum number of competitors/teams has not been reached, or where there are not enough individual scores to extract a team score. Furthermore, an individual/team must have beaten another individual/team to score BUCS Points (i.e. if 3 individuals/teams compete in an event, only 2 will score BUCS Points). This does not apply to extracted teams. Individuals/teams are regarded as having competed if they started the event; therefore DNS will not be regarded as having competed.

For full information regarding BUCS Points, please check Appendix 1.

Races

There are four different races that occur at the BUCS Cross Country Championships. Only the Men's and Women's Long Races have BUCS Points attributed.

Men’s Long Race:

Only six men per institution may run in the Men’s Long Race. This is be declared at the event. All men to be entered into one category on BUCS Play. Men’s Team competition determined by top 4 finishers from a University.

Advisory note: If competing in the Long Race students should have competed in a 10km Cross Country race before and should be able to complete the course in under 55 minutes. We would not encourage those that are not confident with this in competing in this race.

Men’s Short Race:

For all who do not wish to run in the Long race and for Universities with more than six male competitors. This will be declared at the event. All men to be entered into one category on BUCS Play. Men’s Team competition determined by top 4 finishers from a University. Multiple teams per university may count in results.

Women’s Long Race:

Only four women per institution may run in the Women’s Long Race. This is be declared at the event. All women to be entered into one category on BUCS Play. Women’s Team competition determined by top 3 finishers from a University.

Advisory note: If competing in the Long Race students should have competed in a 8km Cross Country race before and should be able to complete the course in under 55 minutes. We would not encourage those that are not confident with this in competing in this race.

Women’s Short Race:

For all who do not wish to run in the Long race and for Universities with more than four female competitors. This will be declared at the event. All women to be entered into one category on BUCS Play. Women’s Team competition determined by top 3 finishers from a University. Multiple teams per university may count in results.

Competition Rules

This event will be contested under the rules of UK Athletics and the BUCS Regulations.

Provisional Race Details

Women's Short Race 

  • Distance: 6km 
  • Race start time: 11:30AM 

Men's Short Race 

  • Distance: 8km 
  • Race start time: 12:15PM

Women’s Long Race

  • Distance: 8km 
  • Race start time: 1:15PM

Men’s Long Race

  • Distance: 10km 
  • Race start time: 2:15PM

 

Entry Allowance

Institutions can request an unlimited number of entries. Should the event reach capacity, BUCS may need to restrict the number of entries per institution.

Only 6 men per university and 4 women per university can compete in the long races.

This is declared at the event by the team captain.

Withdrawals

After entries have closed, no refunds will be given for withdrawals. This applies regardless of the reason for withdrawal.

Alumni/Guest Entries

Alumni entries will be allowed in the 2019-20 Championships for the first time. 

Alumni entrants will start racing at the end of the women's and men's short races and will run the short race distances (6km and 8km respectively). 

When you enter for the event on BUCS Play, please select the 'Guest' institution for your application. You will then declare your institution on your application.

Alumni entrants race numbers will be a different colour to current students and will be within the main institution captains packs. Please organise collection of your number with the current cross country race captain. 

There will be a prize for the first finisher for the women's and men's races.

Alumni guest entries will be emailed on Friday 17 January to make payment.

Payment must be made via BACS to BUCS by Monday 27 January. Payment for entries not received by this deadline will be withdrawn from the event. 

Sort Code                                16-00-15

Account No                              23210293

Account Name                         British Universities & Colleges Sport

Reference                                XC_(Competitor Surname)