Excitement builds up towards The Great Chepsaita Cross Country Run next weekend

Chepsaita Secondary Faculty, the place the occasion will occur, is strategically situated the place three counties are shut by. Situated about 55 km west of Eldoret city, alongside the freeway that connects Kenya and the neighboring nation of Uganda, it’s on the border between Nandi and Uasing Gishu Counties. Whereas the secondary college is in Uasin Gishu County, Chepsaita village extends throughout the 2 counties, and Chepsaita Major Faculty is in Nandi County. The occasion’s venue can be nearly 5 kilometers from Kakamega County. Within the three counties, there have been campaigns to carry followers into the occasion, and it guarantees to be one other large athletics occasion within the nation.The course can be powerful; organizers have shortened the senior males’s and girls’s classes to about 8 km. The junior classes have additionally been shortened. The U20 ladies will cowl 4.91 km, whereas the U20 males will do 6.48 km.

The reigning World Cross Nation Champion, Beatrice Chebet; the World 800m champion, Mary Moraa; the 2021 World U20 1500m champion, Vincent Keter; the second-fastest 10K runner on this planet, Agnes Jebet Ngetich, and 2021 Kenyan nationwide cross nation champion, Sheilah Chelangat had been among the many elite runners who attended the launch of the occasion on the twenty second of November. The occasion was graced by the Cupboard Secretary for Sports activities, Ababu Namwamba.

New abilities can be found as athletic followers get familiarized –and alternatives to fulfill in person- with the large names to be careful for within the shape-up to the World Cross Nation Championships that may occur in March subsequent yr in Belgrade. The highest finishers right here may also earn locations to take part on the Sirikwa Basic World Continental Tour Gold degree cross nation assembly in Eldoret in February.