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Chebet shifts focus to World X-country after Birmingham heroics
Reading Time: 2min | Fri. 12.08.22. | 18:50
She has slightly over six months tk prepare for the February 2023 event.
World Athletics cross country champion Beatrice Chebet has shifted her focus to preparing for next year's event set for February, 2023 in Bathurst, Australia after a successful Commonwealth Games campaign.
Unlike in 2019 when she was competing in the junior category, winning the 6km tight race in 20:50 ahead of Ethiopian duo of Alemitu Tariku and Tsigie Gebreselama, Chebet will be competing in the senior race.
Chebet, fresh from winning the 5000m gold at the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham will look to follow in the footsteps of her compatriots, if selected for the team, and keep the Kenyan women's winning streak that stretches for the last seven editions going.
"I have had a good year on track, winning the African title, silver at the World Championships and clinching the Commonwealth Games title.
My focus now shifts to next year where I hope to make the World Cross team and also the be in Budapest for the World Championships," she said in an interview after her victory in Birmingham.
In 2019 when Chebet was winning the junior title, handing Kenya the title the country had lost to Letesenbet Gidey since Faith Kipyegon's victory in 2013, Hellen Obiri won the senior women's title.
Florence Kiplagat's victory in 2009 when the distance was 8km opened a streak of Kenyan victory as Emily Chebet (2010), Vivian Cheruiyot (2011), Emily Chebet (2013), the late Agnes Tirop (2015), Irene Cheptai (2017), and Obiri have won.
Meanwhile, with just over six months to go until the event is hosted in Australia 500 runners from across New South Wales used part of the course set to be used in the NSW Short Course Cross Country Championships.
Runners took on the ‘Billabong’, ‘Bondi Beach’ and ‘Mount Panorama’ sections of the route.













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