Letesenbet Gidey, Ethiopia’s world 5,000 and 10,000 metres world
record holder, collapsed just a few yards short of apparent victory in
scorching conditions at the World Athletics Cross Country
Championships in Bathurst in Australia, enabling Kenya’s Beatrice
Chebet to snatch the women’s title.
The 44th edition of the World Athletics Cross Country Championships,
set to start today at Bathurst in Australia two years later than
originally planned because of COVID-19 restrictions, will take place
on unforgiving terrain in temperatures forecast to rise to 35C.