Five Kenyan-born runners have been named in the final United States team to the World Cross Country Championships in Denmark at the end of this month. US national cross country champion Shadrack Kipchirchir, a 2016 Rio Olympic 10,000m finalist, leads the team of 28 for the March 30 world cross in Aarhus, Denmark. He will be joined by 2018 US cross-country champion Leonard Korir, Hillary Bor, Stanley Kebenei, Emmanuel Bor and the only US-born runner in the senior men’s team, Mason Ferlic. Kipchirchir, Korir and Kebenei were part of the US team for the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in Kampala, where they finished fifth in the senior men’s team standings, just six points shy of a medal. The Under 20 men’s team comprises of Shuaib Aljabaly, Mieka Beaudoin-Rousseau, Robert Cheeseman, Khalid Hussein, Gabriel Mudel and Charlie Perry while the U20 women’s sextet are Nicole Clermont, Heidi Nielson, Grace Ping, Riley Rigdon, Savannah Shaw and Kayla Smith.

Source: The Star March 07, 2019 02:37 UTC