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1979 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships

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Organisers
  
NCAA

Date
  
November 19, 1979

Athletes participating
  
237

Edition
  
41st

Location
  
Saucon Valley Fields

Host city
  
Bethlehem, PA Lehigh University

The 1979 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships were the 41st annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division I men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 19, 1979, the meet was hosted by Lehigh University at the Saucon Valley Fields in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The distance for this race was 10 kilometers (6.21 miles).

All Division I cross country teams were eligible to qualify for the meet through their placement at various regional qualifying meets. In total, 29 teams and 237 individual runners contested this championship.

The team national championship was retained by the UTEP Miners, their fifth title. The individual championship was won by Henry Rono, from Washington State, with a time of 28:19.60. This was Rono's third individual title in four years. Along with Gerry Lindgren (1966, 1967, and 1969) and Steve Prefontaine (1970, 1971, and 1973), the former from Washington State and the latter from Oregon, Rono is one of only three Division I collegiate runners with three individual titles.

Men's title

  • Distance: 10,000 meters (6.21 miles)
  • References

    1979 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships Wikipedia