Faith Kipyegon and Agnes Ng’etich to grace Sirikwa Classic
Thursday twentieth February, 2025 10:42 AM|
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Faith Kipyegon and Agnes Ng’etich are among the many top-level athletes who will characteristic on the Sirikwa Classic set for Saturday, February 20, 2025.
Sirikwa Classic, a World Athletics Cross Country Tour, will give Kipyegon, the four-time world champion, an opportunity to win the title she took dwelling in 2023.
“I’m currently in my build-up, training towards the outdoor season ahead. Cross country is where athletics started for me as a young girl, and it’s always motivating to run on home ground,” Kipyegon mentioned, as quoted by World Athletics.
In the 10km senior girls’s race, they may face Ng’etich, who was a distant seventeenth through the inaugural version of the Sirikwa Classic, then generally known as the Agnes Tirop Cross Country Classic.
“I am excited to open my season at the Sirikwa Cross Country. This is the first step in a big year ahead, and I am ready to test my form and give my best on home soil,” Ng’etich, who completed fourth on the World Cross Country Championships in 2024, mentioned.
Loice Chekwemoi from Uganda is about to present the Kenyan unit a contest in Eldoret. The teenager is the African 3000m steeplechase champion and winner of the Great Chepsaita Cross Country.
Hellen Ekalale, winner of the 10K Valencia Ibercaja by Kiprun, All-African Games 10,000m champion Janeth Chepngetich, nationwide cross-country champion Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech, African cross-country champion Cintia Chepng’eno, and world half marathon bronze medallist Catherine Amanang’ole will even race.
Men’s contest
Meanwhile, World U20 cross nation bronze medallist Matthew Kipkoech Kipruto is among the many males who will compete within the senior race. He is second on the World Cross Country Tour standings with 3680 factors, 40 factors behind tour chief Rodrigue Kwizera of Burundi, who has 3720 factors. The 19-year-old bagged Cinque Mulini and Festival du Cross Country victories and secured third place on the Great Chepsaita Cross Country.
Jacob Krop, the 2022 world 5000m silver medallist, 2022 world 10,000m silver medallist Stanley Waithaka Mburu; Chepsaita Cross Country and 2022 Sirikwa Classic winner Samwel Chebolei Masai; Kibiwott Kandie; Weldon Lang’at; steeplechaser Leonard Bett; and Gideon Kipkertich Rono are the opposite contestants.