2015 European Cross Country Championships Both senior individual runners were non-European born (Kenya for Kaya and Ethiopia for Hassan). All of the top five finishers in the men's race were born outside Europe. 2015 European Cross Country Championships The 2015 European Cross Country Championships was the 22nd edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Hyères, France. The 2014 runner-up Ali Kaya took the men's senior title, retaining the crown for Turkey. Spain, led by 2013 champion Alemayehu Bezabeh, returned to the top of the team rankings in that category. Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands was the women's senior
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