Ugandan blasts to senior men’s title ahead of Berihu Aregawi, Joshua Cheptegei and Geoffrey Kamworor With storm clouds ominously gathering overhead, Jacob Kiplimo whipped through the testing world cross course like a tornado. After taking bronze at the last championships in Aarhus four years ago, the 22-year-old came of age in Bathurst with a dominant victory. Following warm temperatures at…

Letesenbet Gidey collapses with just metres to go when holding a seemingly winning lead in the senior women’s race in Bathurst allowing Beatrice Chebet to storm through for gold In the 50-year history of the World Cross Country Championships there have rarely been more dramatic moments than the finish of the women’s race at the 2023 event in Bathurst. Despite…

Bathurst or bust? Will this weekend’s Aussie event prove a backward or forward step for the world cross-country championships? This year marks 50 years since the first world cross-country championships took place in Waregem in Belgium and 120 years since the event’s predecessor, the ‘International’ cross-country championships, was staged on Hamilton Racecourse in Scotland. Often dubbed ‘the toughest footrace on…

Four-time Olympian, six-metre vaulter and 2003 world indoor champion had an aggressive form of cancer Tim Lobinger, the German pole vaulter who won world indoor gold in Birmingham in 2003, has died aged 50 from cancer. In 2018 we reported in our magazine that Lobinger’s cancer had returned after previously believing it had been successfully treated in 2017. The Rheinbach-born…