The 2024 World Athletics Cross-Country Championships concluded in Belgrade after a full slate of competition. This was the 45th edition of the championships, and the first to be held in Serbia.

Note: while cross-country running is not an Olympic event - it should be! - it is common for long-distance track and road runners to cross-compete in the discipline.

In 2023's edition, Team Kenya took home four senior titles, including both team titles for men and women. Team Ethiopia tied the Kenyans for five overall senior medals. This time, though, the Kenyans took all six senior titles for 11 medals overall, including a sweep of the women's individual podium (and the top five women's placements!). Beatrice Chebet successfully defended her 2023 women's title as part of that Kenyan run, while Ugandan Tokyo 2020 medalist Jacob Kiplimo retained the men's title. Meanwhile, Team Great Britain was the only non East African medalist, with bronze in the mixed relay.

Congratulations to all 2024 medalists! A quick recap is below, and complete results and news can be found online at worldathletics.org.

Pablo Martinez puts his workout in technicolor.

Harry McNulty makes a lift.

Emil Iversen has a training pal.

Stefan Kraft does apres-ski in style.

Jack Woolley has a very Paris photoshoot.

Judokas Eteri Liparteliani and Temur Nozadze share a special moment with the home crowd at last week's Grand Slam stop in Tbilisi.

Austrian Alpine skier Conny Huetter was left "speechless" after winning her first World Cup downhill overall title, on home soil no less.

Biathlon World offers us Q&A sessions with both of this season's Total Score winners, Lisa Vittozzi and Johannes Thingnes Boe.

Olympics: Will Carolina Marin win back her Olympic badminton singles title at Paris 2024?

Swimmers Noe Ponti and Sarah Sjostrom win 2023's European Aquatics' 'Swimmers of the Year' honors.

Stockholm 1912 champion swimmer Duke Kahanamoku gets a new museum exhibition in Huntington Beach on his surfing exploits.

Who were Nordic combined's season-end award winners?

Can Brazilian star archer Marcus D-Almeida have his "moment" at Paris 2024 this summer?

Diver Matty Lee recovers from surgery.

Spaniard Alberto Gonzalez Garcia and Ecuadorian Elizabeth Bravo were the big risers in Olympic qualification after the latest World Triathlon Cup stop.

Olympic champion weightlifters Hidilyn Diaz, Zhou Zhihui, Wang Zhouyu, Chen Lijun, and Neisi Dajomes all face a severe final test to make it to Paris 2024.

Portugal's Montebela Aguieira becomes a center for prospective Olympic canoe sprinters-in-training.

The World Sailing Show: Will it be either Australian Matt Wearn or Briton Michael Beckett emerging as Paris 2024's ILCA 7 champion?

ITF: Who are the current 'movers and shakers' on the junior tennis circuit so far this season?

Is 2024 the 'time to shine' for Kenyan long-distance runner Emmaculate Anyango, with the cross-country championships a first test?

​A change in training and coach, plus a solid start indoors, has sprint hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela 'dreaming of bigger days to come' in 2024.

Mathias Gidsel, Henny Reistad, Elias Ellefsen a Skipagotu, and Lena Grandveau are the 'World Players of the Year' in handball for 2023.

What has multi-Olympic rower Rumyana Neykova been up to since setting a world-best time in 2002?

What impact might a world figure skating championship at age 40 by Deanna Stellato-Dudek have for others watching?

Team Great Britain's sports shooter Seonaid McIntosh talks Olympic inspiration, Tokyo 2020 disappointment, and more with  ISSF.

​What does Team Dominican Republic soccer star Edison Azcona think of making it to Paris 2024?

"The Olympics is a whole different level." Former college basketball phenom Jimmer Fredette is headed to Paris 2024 in 3x3.

Which possible 'iconic moments' does FIBA's Jeff Taylor want to see in this Olympic basketball summer?

Tokyo 2020 Olympian Tri Bourne helps share the story of beach volleyball's 'most unique partnership'.

"I just have to keep fighting and it will come." Road cyclist Sam Bennett looks to regain the form that saw a breakthrough performance a few years back.

Retired speed skater Joey Mantia meets some local Belgians on an inline skating outing.

Meanwhile, fellow Team USA speed skate Conor McDermott-Mostowy has a 'cracker of a conversation' on the BBC's LGBT Sports Podcast.

Team Ireland equestrian show jumpers Cian O'Connor, Darragh Kenny, Daniel Coyle, and Shane Sweetnam 'are looking stronger than ever' after a key victory in an Olympic season.

Elite fencer Despina Georgiadou has something to say about the qualification system for Paris 2024...

Panam Sports: London 2012 champion fencer Ruben Limardo has big, golden dreams for Paris 2024.

Are Lukas Høstmælingen, Tinius Haslev Nordbye, Magnus Lillebø, Eskil Eriksen, and Harald Dæhlin future Olympic stars after winning a World Junior Curling Championship?

A Team Ireland tennis star? Meet 20-year-old Michael Agwi...

The 2024 World Women's Curling Championship ended yesterday in Sydney, Canada after just over a week of competition amongst 13 national teams. This was the 46th edition of the annual event and the first to be held in the Nova Scotia city, although it had been in Canada a previous 17 times.

Entering 2024, Team Canada's 17 titles and 36 overall podium finishes had them firmly the all-time medal winner, followed by Teams Sweden and Switzerland with 25 and 17 overall medals, respectively. The Swiss came to Sydney as the quadruple defending champions, skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni.

In this year, Team Canada again won the title, but for the first time since 2018, with Tirinzoni's Swiss team coming up just short. The South Koreans bronze was their third podium finish in five years.

Congratulations to the 2024 medalists! Complete results can be found at worldcurling.org.

​2024 World Women's Curling Championship Medalists

Team Canada: Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes |
Team Switzerland: Alina Pätz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Selina Witschonke, Carole Howald |
Team South Korea: Gim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim Su-ji, Seol Ye-eun