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Oxford University Cross Country Club. For training in Oxford see the Oxford Distance Project group

Cross-country is one of only fourteen Full Blue sports and Oxford University Cross-Country Club (OUCCC) maintains an extremely high standard of competition. Many of our athletes regularly compete at national, regional and county levels, with some of our best having run internationally. One does not have to look too far into the past to find some household names of British running: Richard Nerurkar, Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway. Both the men’s and women’s side of the Club have current members with international experience. However, the Club does not cater for experienced athletes alone. With over one hundred runners, the Club has something for everyone. While it fields four men’s teams and three ladies’ teams against Cambridge in the December Varsity Matches and consistently competes to a high standard in the British Universities’ Cross-Country Championship (both men’s and women’s teams are regular medal contenders), in most fixtures anyone who wants to compete can do so. It also has a number of guaranteed entries for the London Marathon, and the Club has recently had a number of strong runners competing. The Club’s large membership, supplemented by that of our sister club, Oxford University Athletics Club (OUAC), means that cross-country is an excellent way of meeting and socialising with other students outside of one’s college or degree-course. A full running programme is complemented by many social events throughout the year.

20/08/2026

First session at Chojo Camp with Coach Seddon mic’d up 🎤🗻☀️

13/08/2026

Good luck to everyone receiving results today!

If you’re joining us next year please drop us a message to say hi and check out our previous post if you want to join us for pre-term training camp! We can’t wait to meet you!!

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03/08/2026

Join us for OUCCC training camp from the 17th-21st September in Corris, North Wales for an amazing week of running and socials!

Sign up link in bio and please get in touch for more info!

14/06/2026

Congratulations to Tom Wood and Jared Martin who recently competed in the Up & Down Race at the European Off-Road Running Championships in Slovenia.

Tom Wood, who was competing for Great Britain for the first time, finished 36th, while Jared led the Irish team home in 47th.

11/06/2026

UK EKIDEN TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

Introducing the 10 OUCCC athletes ready to race 112km down the Thames path in the FT Nikkei UK Ekiden tomorrow!! 🔥🔥

29/05/2026

Athletics OUAC Varsity also saw Rebecca Flaherty set a track record of 16:05 in the 5000m. An incredible performance, especially considering the head and running most of the race alone !!

28/05/2026

Until very recently the exact foundation date of OUCCC was unknown.

All that was known was that the club was founded in early 1876. Over these first few months, runs would start and finish at various pubs around the city, such as the White House on Abingdon Road. Using their facilities to shower. The mud that the runners would traipse in wasn’t always to the landlords liking and they were often banned from returning quite quickly.

A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to stumble across this article from the Oxford University Herald which details the first meeting and committee of the club.

7 March 1876, the start of the story for this great club.

27/05/2026

OUAC Varsity Match 2026 … we dominated, winning the Men’s and Women’s blues and seconds matches and contributing to an overall Oxford win !!

Address

Iffley Road
Oxford

Website

http://ouccc.org.uk/

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