{"id":3508,"date":"2019-03-30T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2019-03-30T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:23:08","slug":"athletics-obiri-achieves-historic-world-treble-at-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/03\/30\/athletics-obiri-achieves-historic-world-treble-at-cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics: Obiri achieves historic world treble at cross country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AARHUS, Denmark (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya\u2019s Hellen Obiri made athletics history on Saturday when she won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, to become the first woman to lift world titles indoors, outdoors and at cross country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obiri emulated Ethiopia\u2019s Kenenisa Bekele, the only man to achieve the treble, as she powered away from Ethiopian Dera Dira to win by two seconds over the 10.24km course in 36 minutes 14 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is really special,\u201d the world 5,000 meters champion said after leading her Kenyan colleagues to the team title too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was my debut IAAF World Cross Country Championships and my only chance to do it. I now don\u2019t need to do any more cross country,\u201d added the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joshua Cheptegei became the first Ugandan to win the senior men\u2019s title, making amends for the agonizing near-miss in front of his home fans in the previous edition in Kampala two years ago when he faded calamitously in sight of victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time, he forged clear of team mate Jacob Kiplimo, as the pair also led the Ugandan men to a first-ever team gold, and Kenya\u2019s defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor to win convincingly by 25 meters in 31:40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AARHUS, Denmark (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya\u2019s Hellen Obiri made athletics history on Saturday when she won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, to become the first woman to lift world titles indoors, outdoors and at cross country. Obiri emulated Ethiopia\u2019s Kenenisa Bekele, the only man to achieve the treble, as she powered away from Ethiopian Dera Dira to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/03\/30\/athletics-obiri-achieves-historic-world-treble-at-cross-country\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}