Former University of Kansas standout, and Arvada resident, Charlie Gruber won his first U.S. men’s 4 km national title Saturday at the 2004 USA Cross Country Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Gruber won the race in 11 minutes, 14 seconds, holding off Luke Watson at the finish line.
Kristian Agnew and Adam Goucher of Boulder finished 22nd and 23rd, and Bryan Barryhill finished 25th in the same race.
2002 World Cross Country Championship bronze medalist Colleen De Reuck, of Boulder, won the women’s 8 km competition.
In the women’s 50+ and 60+ and the men’s 50+ and 70+ age division, The Boulder Road Runners won the team title. The Running Republic of Boulder won the team title in the women’s 40+ age division.
Full results can be found here.
The action resumes Sunday at 10:00 a.m. at Fall Creek and 16th Street Park in Indianapolis with the Junior Men’s 8 km Championship, followed by the Senior Women’s 4 km race at 10:45 a.m. This year’s USA Championships conclude with the Men’s National 12 km Championship at 11:15 a.m. The top-six finishers in the senior and junior races are eligible to represent the United States at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, March 20-21 in Brussels, Belgium.