Cross Country: Young Briton thanks Iten for his victory

Charlie Tait-Harris receives the Hector Rose Bowl from John Ngugi after winning the legendary Tucks cross country in Shrewsbury School on Sunday.

A trip to train and compete with athletes in high-altitude Iten and Nairobi may have spurred a 16-year-old Briton to win one of the world’s oldest and UK’s prestigious cross country races, The Tucks and the Hector Rose Bowl.

Peter Middleton, Housemaster and coach at Shrewsbury School, where Charlie Tait-Harris is a student, said the presence of Kenya’s five-time world cross country champion and 1988 Olympic gold medallist, John Ngugi, at the race last week also added excitement to the event.