2016 European Cross Country Championships reached the podium in all categories. The 2016 edition saw increased Kenyan dominance at the competition, with the top two runners in both senior races being Kenyan-born, as well as the men's under-23 winner. 2016 European Cross Country Championships The 2016 European Cross Country Championships was the 23rd edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Chia, Italy. Aras Kaya won the men's senior title, making it three straight victories for Turkey in that event, following in the footsteps of fellow Kenyan-Turkish runners Polat Kemboi Arıkan and Ali Kaya. Yasemin Can, became Turkey's first
Mount Barney (Queensland) and it features prominently in a number of their stories. For Aboriginal people the peak has traditionally been regarded as a place to avoid. On 3 August 1828, explorer Allan Cunningham named the mountain "Mount Lindesay". However, the New South Wales Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell is believed to have renamed it in the 1840s to "Mount Barney", after George Barney, a colonial engineer. Mitchell is believed to have assigned the name "Mount Lindesay" to the current Mount Lindesay (which Cunningham had originally named "Mount Hooker"). The first European to climb Mount Barney was Captain Patrick Logan, who reached the East Peak