The 2011 NACAC Cross Country Championships was the seventh edition of the continental cross country running

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

 competition which took place on February 19 at Queen's Park Savannah

Queen's Park Savannah

Port of Spain's largest open space—and the world's largest traffic roundabout—is the Queen's Park Savannah, known colloquially simply as "the Savannah". It occupies about of level land, and the distance around the perimeter is about 2.2 mi...

 in Port of Spain

Port of Spain

Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...

, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

. A total of 166 athletes took part in the event, hailing from a record high of 20 nations within the North America, Central America and Caribbean region.

The competition featured four races: an 8 km senior men's race, a 6 km senior women's race, a 6 km junior (under-20s) men's race and a 4 km junior women's race. The course for the championships followed a 2-kilometer grassy loop and was relatively flat throughout. Kenyan-born runner Robert Cheseret

Robert Cheseret

Robert Cheseret, is a Kenyan-born long-distance runner now training with the aim of representing the United States at the 2012 Olympics. He is the younger brother of Bernard Lagat. Cheseret won the men's title for the U.S...

 won the senior men's gold for the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and also led the Americans to the team title. Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 Kathryn Harrison secured the senior women's title, but the United States took the overall senior women's gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

s. Ross Proudfoot led a Canadian sweep of the medals in the junior men's race, while American Chelsea Orr was the junior women's gold medalist.

Individual

Senior men's 8 km		23:43 min		23:46 min		23:51 min
Senior women's 6 km		20:19 min		20:22 min		20:24 min
Junior men's 6 km		18:27 min		18:29 min		18:29 min
Junior women's 4 km		13:54 min		14:00 min		14:02 min

Team

Senior men's 8 km	United States	15 pts	Canada	37 pts	Trinidad and Tobago	86 pts
Senior women's 6 km	United States	14 pts	Canada	30 pts	Trinidad and Tobago	68 pts
Junior men's 6 km	Canada	12 pts	United States	37 pts	Puerto Rico	56 pts
Junior women's 4 km	Canada	15 pts	United States	30 pts	Puerto Rico	61 pts