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MEDALS 
Joshua CHEPTEGEI – GOLD 
Jacob KIPLIMO – SILVER 
Oscar CHELIMO – U-20 BRONZE 
U-20 Men team – SILVER 
Senior Women Team – BRONZE 
Senior men team – GOLD
RESULT: Senior Men race 10km
Joshua CHEPTEGEI 
31:40 Prize $30000
Jacob KIPLIMO 31:44 $15,000
Geoffrey KAMWOROR 
31:55 $10,000
Thomas Ayeko 32:25
Joel Ayeko 32:32
Albert CHEMUTAI 32:46
Maxwell ROTICH 33:28
Uganda win team GOLD $20,000
RESULT: Senior Women race 10km
Hellen OBIRI 36:14 $30000
Dera DIDA 
36:16 $15,000
Letesenbet GIDEY 36:24 $10,000
Rachael CHEBET 36:47 $7000
Peruth CHEMUTAI 36:49 $5000
Uganda win team bronze $12,000
RESULT: Under 20 Men race 8km
Milkesa MENGESHA 23:52
Tadese WORKU 23:54
Oscar CHELIMO 23:55
Leonard Kipkemoi BETT 24:02
RESULT: Under 20 Women race 6km
Alemitu TARIKU 20:50
Tsigie GEBRESELAMA 20:50
Beatrice CHEBET 20:51
Sarah CHELANGAT 20:51
Aarhus, Denmark | THE INDEPENDENT | Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo destroyed the field Saturday for a 1-2 finish in the blue ribbon event of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships – the men’s senior race.
It is the first ever gold for Uganda in both the senior men’s individual event, and the team event. The last time a nation other than Kenya or Ethiopia won the men’s team title at the world cross country was back in 1980.
Earlier, Oscar Chelimo had won bronze in the junior men’s event, leading his team to silver, while the senior women had also won team bronze.
Cheptegei has a lot to celebrate this time as two years ago in front of his fans in Kampala, he set a blistering opening pace and looked all set to wrap up the 2017 title with two kilometers to go, when his legs gave way. He walked home in 30th position.
What it means to become a world champion
@joshuacheptege1 take a bow
— IAAF (@iaaforg) March 30, 2019
Cheptegei dethrones Kamworor, celebrates
A partnership between Cheptegei and Kiplimo ensured Uganda claimed tamaiden victory in the men’s world cross-country championships in style Saturday, while Kenyan track star Hellen Obiri took the women’s title.
Cheptegei clocked 31min 40sec around the 10.2km-long course in the Danish city of Aarhus, he and Kiplimo pushing Kenya’s double defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor into third (31:55).
“It is an awesome feeling winning here today. Since I missed it last time in 2017 I now reached my mission to return with the gold medal,” Cheptegei said.
“It means a lot to me to be the first ever Ugandan to win this title. The course was very hard and difficult but I had a very strong preparation at home in Kampala where the terrain is very similar.”
The women’s race, over the same distance on the muddy course, was led almost from start to finish by Obiri, 2017 world champion over 5000m, a distance in which she also won Olympic gold in Rio in 2016.
The 29-year-old Kenyan clocked 36:14, just two seconds ahead of Dera Dida, with another Ethiopian, Letensebet Gidey, in third a further 8sec adrift.
