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Mawia returns as Cross Country Tour heads to Poland
Reading Time: 2min | Fri. 21.10.22. | 20:34
She will be marking her return to cross country competition for the first time since March, her most recent event being the Pisa Half Marathon earlier this month where she finished fifth
Kenya’s Lucy Mawia will be in action when the World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold heads to Poland on Sunday for the the Cross Country Bydgoszcz na Start where she will contest the women’s 6km race.
After finishing second in the 2021/22 Cross Country Tour, Mawia went on to race on the track and road, improving her PBs at a range of distances from 1500m to the half marathon, for which she clocked 1:09:38 in Udine last month.
She will be marking her return to cross country competition for the first time since March, her most recent event being the Pisa Half Marathon earlier this month where she finished fifth.
Maureen Cherotich and Lilian Jepkemboi Lelei will be joining their compatriot in Poland, alongside Ethiopia’s Tsiyon Abebe.
Cherotich competed at the last two editions of the World Athletics U20 Championships, finishing seventh in the 5000m in Cali in August and sixth in Nairobi last year.
The 18-year-old now switches her attention to cross country, lining up alongside Lelei, who like Mawia competed at the Italian Cross Country Championships in March. Lelei competes in Bydgoszcz after a busy period of road racing that included a second-place finish in the Zagreb Half Marathon on 1 October and sixth place in the Pisa Half Marathon eight days later.
In the men's race, Kenya's Levy Kibet will be up against Uganda’s Joel Ayeko who finished behind Edward Zakayo at the first Gold event of this season’s World Athletics Cross Country Tour in Cardiff a week ago.
Kibet will be joined by his compatriots Cosmas Kyeva and Boniface Nduva.













