• ROGAŠKA SLATINA HALL, Thursday 18. June 2026

The last white athlete to win the world cross-country championship is Catalan. It was Pere Casacuberta, a farmer from Gurb who in 1984 became the junior world cross-country champion in New Jersey against all odds, a feat that catapulted him to fame. But far from a success story, this is a story of collective failure.