EDINBURGH, GBR - Alex Gits (Edina, Minn.) finished 13^th in the junior women's race and Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colo.) finished 19^th in the senior men's race to lead Team USA at the 36^th IAAF World Cross Country Championships Sunday at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park.

Gits, a freshman at Stanford Universityled the Team USA junior women with a 13^th place finish. Despite a fall near 3 km, Gits ran 20:41 for the 6 km course to lead the U.S. squad to a sixth-place finish with 100 points, only one point out of fifth behind Canada. Gits was followed by teammates Emily Schwitzer (Minnetonka, Minn.)in 28^th place, Laurynne Chetelat (Davis, Calif.) in 29^th, Emily Reese (Chamblee, Ga.) in 30^th to round out the team scoring, while Lauren Saylor (Clovis, Calif.) and Marissa Treece (Maple City, Mich.) finished 38^th and 44^th respectively.

Ethiopia won the team gold, led by Genzebe Dibaba's winning run of 19:59. Kenya was second in the team race with 20 points with Japan taking third with 57 points.