{"id":13267,"date":"2026-01-09T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:20:18","slug":"chebor-ngetich-carry-kenyas-hopes-at-world-cross-in-absence-of-chebet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13267\/","title":{"rendered":"Chebor, Ng’etich carry Kenya’s hopes at World Cross in absence of Chebet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bernard<\/a> By
\n
\n Bernard Cheruiyot
\n <\/a>
\n Published on: January 09, 2026 02:24 (EAT)
\n \"Chebor, <\/p>\n

Athletes including (From L) Ethiopia’s Fotyen Tesfay, Ethiopia’s Ejgayehu Taye, Italy’s Nadia Battocletti, Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet and Kenya’s athlete Agnes Jebet Ngetich compete in the women’s 10000m final during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on September 13, 2025. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

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Rising star Maurine Chebor will make her Team Kenya
\ndebut at Saturday\u2019s World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee,
\nwith expectations high in the senior women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old caps a rapid rise this season and
\nlines up alongside world 10km record holder Agnes Ng\u2019etich in a strong Kenyan
\nsquad that also includes Caren Chebet, Rebecca Mwangi, Joyline Jepkemoi and
\nBrenda Kenei.<\/p>\n

Kenya face the task of defending the senior women\u2019s
\nindividual title, a crown they have dominated since 2009.<\/p>\n

Kenya\u2019s golden reign was ignited by Florence
\nKiplagat in Amman, Jordan, in 2009 before Emily Chebet carried the torch with
\nvictory in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2010.<\/p>\n

Vivian Cheruiyot extended that dominance in Punta
\nUmbria, Spain, in 2010, before Chebet reclaimed the title in Bydgoszcz in 2013.<\/p>\n

The dynasty rolled on in Guiyang, China, in 2015,
\nwhere the late Agnes Tirop reigned supreme, followed by Irene Cheptai in Kampala,
\nUganda, in 2017 and Hellen Obiri in Aarhus, Denmark, in 2019.<\/p>\n

The last two editions in Bathurst, Australia, 2023
\nand Belgrade, Serbia, 2024, were emphatically dominated by double world record
\nholder Beatrice Chebet who announced that she would sit out all athletic
\ncompetitions in 2026 to start a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bernard Cheruiyot Published on: January 09, 2026 02:24 (EAT) Athletes including (From L) Ethiopia’s Fotyen Tesfay, Ethiopia’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,7913],"class_list":{"0":"post-13267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-world-athletics-cross-country-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}