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Leon County to host World Athletics Cross Country Championships at Apalachee Regional Park on Jan. 10, 2026
Summary
Leon County officials say the 46th World Athletics Cross Country Championships will bring teams from more than 60 countries to Apalachee Regional Park on Jan. 10, 2026; organizers describe a themed course, community fun runs, a volunteer surge and plans to direct some registration revenue to local school track programs.
Leon County will host the 46th World Athletics Cross Country Championships at Apalachee Regional Park on Jan. 10, 2026, county officials said on the Voices of Leon podcast. Amanda Heidecker, director of Parks and Recreation, said Leon County won the bid in July 2022 after a multiyear effort to develop the facility.
“We started the bid process back in 2020 … and ultimately in July 2022, we were awarded the World Cross Country Championships,” Heidecker said, tracing the project’s origins to the park’s first race in 2009. Heidecker described the course as the product of years of community partnerships and incremental improvements that made the venue suitable for world-class competition.
Heidecker said the event will be a global field: “This is the Olympics of cross country ……
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