Between them, Ethiopia and Kenya have won all of the 26 women’s U-20 team titles in IAAF World Cross Country Championships history. However, there is a guarantee that there will be a new individual champion, as the 2015 and 2017 U-20 champion, Letesenbet Gidey, has moved up to the senior race. World U20 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet won the Kenyan Cross Country Championships in dominant fashion last month and will start as one of the favourite to take the global title in Aarhus. European U20 Cross Country Champion Nadia Battocletti of Italy was the top European two years ago in Kampala in 34th and will be among those leading the continental charge in Aarhus 2019, too. Delia Sclabas (800m world rank: 79; 1500m world rank 82) of Switzerland, the European Cross Country U20 silver medallist, could also be among the challengers.

Source: The Star March 28, 2019 21:00 UTC