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2008IAAF World XC Championships Gits, Torres score top-20 finishes for Team USA at World Cross Country Championships - USATF.org
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EDINBURGH, GBR - Alex Gits (Edina, Minn.) finished 13th in the junior women's race and Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colo.) finished 19th in the senior men's race to lead Team USA at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships Sunday at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park. Gits, a freshman at Stanford Universityled the Team USA junior women with a 13th 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 28th place, Laurynne Chetelat (Davis, Calif.) in 29th, Emily Reese (Chamblee, Ga.) in 30th to round out the team scoring, while Lauren Saylor (Clovis, Calif.) and Marissa Treece (Maple City, Mich.) finished 38th and 44th 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.
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