1 KEN Samuel KIBATHI 22:40
2 ETH Mezgebu SIME 22:41
3 KEN Matthew Kipkoech KIPRUTO 22:46
4 ETH Yismaw DILLU 22:48
5 KEN Johana EROT 22:49
6 KEN Charles ROTICH 22:51
7 ETH Sewmehon ANTENEH 22:52
8 ETH Jenberu SISAY 23:00
9 KEN Shadrack Rono KIPKEMEI 23:02
10 ETH Abdisa FAYISA 23:16
11 UGA Simba Samuel CHEROP 23:23
12 UGA Dolphine CHELIMO 23:25
13 ETH Abel BEKELE 23:33
14 UGA Sailas ROTICH 23:36
15 UGA Hosea CHEMUTAI 23:47
16 JPN Tomoya INOUE 23:58
17 MAR Osama ER-RADOUANI 24:07
18 UGA Titus MUSAU 24:16
19 JPN Kaito MATSUI 24:21
20 JPN Sota ORITA 24:25
21 FRA Gaston ROHMER 24:28
22 JPN Yamato HAMAGUCHI 24:29
23 RSA Rico LEIJENAAR 24:30
24 USA Kevin SANCHEZ 24:31
25 RSA Zenzile PHEKO 24:39
26 ERI Yobiel WELDRUFAEL 24:41
27 RSA Musawenkosi MNISI 24:44
28 MAR Ilyas AAOURDOU 24:46
29 MAR Ahmed FARIS 24:48
30 USA Kole MATHISON 24:49
31 GBR Quinn MIELL-INGRAM 24:50
32 ESP Mesfin ESCAMILLA 24:54
33 ESP Oscar GAITAN 24:57
34 AUS Jack COOMBER 24:58
35 GBR Craig SHENNAN 24:59
36 ESP Unai NARANJO 25:00
37 AUS Charlie MOORE 25:04
38 FRA Ishak DAHMANI 25:08
39 RSA Corné DE FOUW 25:12
40 MAR Abdelwahed AACHOUR 25:14
41 JPN Nao NANATSUE 25:14
42 RSA Tseko Piet THOBALA 25:14
43 SWE Karl OTTFALK 25:17
44 AUS Ky HEHIR 25:20
45 USA Noah BREKER 25:22
46 CAN Ian MCALLISTER 25:25
47 GBR James DARGAN 25:25
48 NZL Matt HILL 25:30
49 NZL Elliott PUGH 25:36
50 SRB Aldin ĆATOVIĆ 25:37
51 AUS Logan TICKELL 25:39
52 MEX Victor Daniel PEREZ IGARI 25:40
53 AUS Padraig HEFFERNAN 25:42
54 USA Aidan JONES 25:48
55 IRL Harry COLBERT 25:48
56 PER Khenny Porfirio MENESES 25:48
57 FRA Tristan DOUCHE 25:50
58 ESP Gonçalo José SOUSA 25:51
59 MAR Zouhair REDOUANE 25:55
60 AUS Seth MAHONY 25:59
61 RSA Realeboga SMITH 26:00
62 GBR Henry DOVER 26:00
63 MEX Angel Luis REYES RAMIREZ 26:02
64 FRA Etienne LE ROUX 26:03
65 JPN Tetsu SASAKI 26:03
66 NZL Daniel PRESCOTT 26:07
67 ESP Carlos ZARATE 26:07
68 USA Birhanu HARRMAN 26:13
69 CAN Kamran BRAR 26:16
70 IRL Seamus ROBINSON 26:18
71 NZL George WYLLIE 26:25
72 NZL Lorcan RABBITTE 26:28
73 CAN Charles GENDRON-JETTÉ 26:34
74 PER Brayan HUANCA 26:39
75 COL Dylan Joel CARRASCO 26:43
76 CAN Elliot BÉLANGER 26:47
77 SRB Sergej KOSTIĆ 26:49
78 FRA Theo PENARD 26:52
79 CAN Angus SKINNER 27:02
80 ESP Andres LARA 27:05
81 NZL Azrael CABUSAO 27:08
82 CAN Léo BÉDARD 27:18
83 GUM Hugh KENT 27:21
84 SRB Veljko VASILJEVIĆ 27:46
85 PER Luis HUAMAN 28:34
86 KAZ Nurdaulet MEDEUBAEV 28:39
87 MAC Weng Tou IP 28:43
88 SRB Kabir ZILJKIĆ 29:18
89 KAZ Ivan GONCHAROV 29:51
KAZ Aibol OMAR DNF
USA Berkley NANCE DNF
LBN Mahmoud ABOU ZEID DNS
Starters and bit of a surprise resul in that women’s under 20 race with a 15year old relative unknown storming to gold in dominant fashion wonder if we’ll get the same here so let’s take a look at some of these uh big names from all over the planet from Japan 17 years old that’s
All Yamamoto Yamato hamaguchi Japanese Junior cross country Champion but run 1338 for 5,000 already he’s a big talent and the 19-year-old from Kenya Samuel karti he has at 1323 5,000 meter to his name and sixth in the world juniors in 2022 and won the Kenyon tries and the best of the locals he’s
Just 17 years old alen kovic twice the Serb indoor champion at senior level at500 M well only have the strength to go this full distance over 8 km remember and for Uganda also 17 Hosea chai 11th in Bathurst last year as just a 16year old only third in the Uganda Tri
Is well the Americans always give a good account of themselves this is their Champion their junior champion this year Kevin Sanchez of the USA from the University of Notre Dame was in Texas originally each should be comfortable with these temperatures here is the e e opian under
20 Junior Champion also 17 Abel M he was seventh in bathur last year team silver so can they upgrade that to Gold this year stomach’s churning then in these seconds before the gun always such relief when the one gun goes you can unleash that pent up energy a lot of
Athletes to get on the start line as well they’re racing then in the under 20 men’s competition I wonder if this one will follow a similar pattern yeah I was just going to say it’s interesting that as the fields get bigger there’s no attempt to really put athletes in pens
As they used to be traditionally at World cross country so you would line up in your team pen kind of one behind the other or a little bit of a zigzag formation to be able to to get out fairly and get a good hard run you can
See the speed that these men have got out so just to make sure they get themselves into a good position before they go into that sharp right turn here yeah that was Matthew kuto K coic he’s got kuto on his b you led the early
Charge and it is quick he’s a 1318 5000 M run I say 5,000 m 5K run he did that on the road in Barcelona on New Year’s Eve 1318 and he’s just 18 years old he was third in the Kenyan Junior Championships but the winner of the uh
Women’s up 20 race remember a few minutes ago was only fourth in the Ethiopian trial so form does change form definitely does change and I think particularly for the Kenyon teams because they do like to take their athletes from those trials into a camp see how they train then and essentially
Whittle that team down a little bit within that camp and it’s kind of the cream floating to the top there and it’s surviving that coming out of it in the best shape so it can completely change from trials to the actual world country step over for junior Ben no problems there
Whatsoever no problems so far but the fatigue will kick in after two or three laps as uh the pattern has been laid down even more early than in the 20 Women’s race remember where we had a Japanese leader for the first kilometer or two well the Kenyan vest very much up
There Yanna erot is up there Jonah erot as he nicknamed he was F in the Kyon PR as the 18year old hmer good is still up there though think there is a second Japanese up in that front pack as well I’ve seen James Dar of great written up
There Canadian vests are packing well there as they negotiate that first sharp turn already gaps appearing as this Fierce Pace takes in to with takes in to with only 2 and A2 minutes on the the clock having a really solid run up there in the about top 25 or 30 they’ve
Negotiated that really tight Corner the sharpest on the circuit uh just a minute or so ago antenna of Ethiopia short and squat isn’t he very powerfully built the land in the green vest Center pach compared with the traditional build of the East Africans the but Kenyan vests
Dominating the scene at the moment or good to see the yellow of vug Ganda up there as well chelimo is looking strong at the moment doline chelimo 18y old now you look at his personal best teaser never broken 14 minutes for 5,000 he’s run 342 1500 M and yet clearly he’s uh
Got Fabulous ability and I think with a lot of these youngsters too I suppose and more so in the under 20 races PA many of them have had the opportunities to get out of their home nation out of Uganda out of Ethiopia Kenya to race on the fast tracks in Europe and elsewhere
To to to show their for no and they’ve grown up watching races like the world across country and seeing athletes and Idols use that as a spring board to success on the world championship and Olympic stage as well and thinking why not me why can’t I go in there and give
It a good go as well 554 for that first circuit then but look how many athletes are in touch that’s a huge pack what some 25 strong something like that yes about 25 uh indeed 554 there’s almost exactly 25 athletes within 5 Seconds of that front end but the gaps will continue to
Grow you’re right though about the Japanese there’s three of them there close together just tucked in behind this leading 16 or 18 there’s actually five of them in the top 25 at the moment so it’s really good packing sad thing is that in front of them there is also
Great packing from the teams from the Ethiopian team from the Ugandan team I think there’s an nran athlete in amongst that group as well there’s a Mor athlete just coming up back well that pack is what about 20 strong just beginning to ease away one and two gaps appearing already with what
7 minutes on the clock one or two of those Japanese pink Japanese vests just beginning to struggle there is no quarter given whatsoever rotic Charles rotic over Kenya leads at the moment he was 12th in Baur last year and listen to this he was a non-sc scorer he didn’t even meet Kenya’s four
Scoring athletes he was fourth in the African Junior 5,000 m last year and second in the Kenyan Junior cross country just in the last few weeks and there’s the situation Kenya lead him by 13 to 33 by Ethiopia 41 for Uganda although of course that’s a very fluid
Situation with so many athletes in this lead pack but it’s it’s looking good for Kenya already another surge being laid down you can see by how quickly they string out and then cona back up again a little bit but each time they conera again they’re slightly fewer men in that
Lead pack and it’s without a doubt that fleing is having an effect on the athletes in this race because it’s very very hard to race like that you have to have trained to be able to withstand those surgeons to cope with it to cope with it psychologically as well as
Physically on top of that the conditions are tough out there as well today yeah although the temperatures back in the ri Valley have been north of 20° centigrade in recent weeks so they are a little bit more climatized than athl from many other nations they checking his watch what you reckon he I
Was just thinking why is he checking his watch he got an email maybe did maybe just got a little bit of notification HL it instead of going around it those pay Bales taking out speed really aren’t a problem if you heard them others choosing to negotiate the chicane with a
Zigzag running technique I think I’d probably have gone for the hurdling I think the Uganda team were looking out and listening to you there because they did the majority of them certainly seem to have heard a lot more the Japanese now beginning to struggle a little bit as this pace at
The front is uh Relentless that’s a SL forward lean isn’t there when you’re really pushing it hard and look at this acceleration here now and that’s hard to cope with and you know I was going to say it’s bit like a flick almost with surges going in
But actually if you’re at or near the front it’s just constantly hard so there aren’t really surges there’s just a somebody maintaining the tempo if it slackens a tiny bit somebody else pushes through yeah it’s almost like a little couple of seconds rest bite while you
Just have a change at the front and then somebody else decides to to keep going back to the front and that’s what I talk about the psychological battles are making sure that you come into these races psychologically absolutely at your best and ready to hold on hold on hold
On because the athletes in that pack don’t know where the next surge is coming from unless it’s going to be surge is going to be the one that will really break up pack and be too much for the majority of the AET in there to be able to
Handle hello pack now as they head out onto this third lap and the long legs and the forward lean there of I think it’s kid coet at the front end third in the Kenyan Junior Championships he is testing the others it’s a real war of attrition out there isn’t it they’re just maintaining
The tempo aggressively and it’s I guess it’s the the lot of anybody goes to the front of of a distance race P you know this better than anybody you just have to have the keep the faith don’t you that you know you keep hammering away and you’ve got to tell yourself it’s hurting
Them it’s hurting them they will drop away yeah I think it’s it’s focusing very much on the moment I guess similar to to the marathon in some ways when you’re kind of in the middle of it best not to think about how far you’ve got to
Go or how much he hurting or what might be happening to other Runners around you you can only control One Foot In Front of the other and making sure that you as we’ said before judge your effort imperfection to get every last ounce of energy out and not to expend too much
Too soon in the race so it’s about trying to react to those surges but not react too quickly as well react in a manner that you can maintain through the rest of the race it’s hard when it’s being thrown down like this well almost halfway around this third lap of four in
This under 20 men’s competition these World Athletics cross country championships kit koich and erot beginning to impose themselves here joh edot who is only a 911 athlete at the steeple chase but has run 2936 for 10,000 M so he’s another good example of an athlete who against
The clock on the track hasn’t really done anything impressive yet to make himself stand out but frankly with this sort of form you know he’d run dozens of seconds quicker for both those distances and the team standings Kenya on 11 Ethiopia on 27 Uganda 45 still that same
1 2 3 but look at that acceleration from the Ethiopian they’re going through and uh I think that’s daa just checking who that is in fact making that boy oh boy that was you can see as as the laps wear on and the fatigue starts to kick in the
Number choosing to hurdle those hay bales is reducing each time and interestingly the two Ugandan athletes running side by side one hurdled and one went round and they came out exactly equal you’d think there’s such an extravagant to acceleration that intense Paula that it’s a utter waste of energy
But I think it was SE was it that did it doesn’t seem to have affected him at all well it’s a gamble isn’t it if he’s feeling stronger if he puts that surge in then yes it’s an extravagance to him in terms of energy but if he’s feeling
Stronger it might take too much from the others well je Ki leaves at the moment but uh I think it was seay that made that spectacular surge approaching the hay bales just now now the reason was able to do that is cu just checking his card he run 740 indoors for 3,000
Lean just a few weeks ago he won the Ethiopian 5,000 meter title in recent weeks so they have got a lot of good track form in their legs some of these riff Valley athletes whether they the Kenyan or Ethiopian and gathy now doing a turn at the front it’s almost like a
Cycle race watching the pelaton people taking turns at the front end isn’t it to be the the uh take the wind in their faces for 30 seconds here and 30 seconds there but I don’t think it is quite as scripted as that it’s always looks incredibly organized and scripted in
Cycling ATT is I mean just look at the the face can’t from that shot obviously but when we get a front on shot K ruto’s face he’s really really hurting and that is written all over his face but you can see just the faces behind it’s really
Really strung out now so this surging this laying down of questions being asked and asked of the men in this race is really starting to take its toll and I think we will see athletes really drop right back and AES who have started a little bit more conservatively might
Even be able to move up despite the big gap out there on this course well Samuel kathi hit the front there the 19-year-old is the Kenyan Junior cross country champion and he won that title as well last year he has real pedigree 1323 for 5,000 back in 2022 so
Two years ago now he was sixth in the world junior 5,000 m so he’s got plenty of experience too and if you win any Kenyan title over any distance then you are uh already a very very strong athlete 518 for that lap so the pace accelerating all the
Time as they hear the Bell this time they head out onto the final lap 2 4 68 in this leading group with one or two just beginning to peel off the backat K kemi antenna KY may not have led through the actual over the timing M but he certainly looked the most comfortable
For me over this last couple of minutes it’s amazing how much his strings out and then comes back together again isn’t it well Kip Kimi is the taller of the Ethiopian of the Kenyan Squad rotic is looking strong to Charles rotic who was 12th in BST he’ll be determined
To be a scorer today imagine he makes the top 10 today and is a non-sc scorer again but k first second over the second lap and then first over the third lap as they went through so he’s been right there Then top three or four for the last 10
Minutes and more now K Ruto takes his turn at the front a little bit more of a head down really really working hard gone from looking really tight to being the one actually at the front pushing the pace on yeah keep ruto’s grimacing you were saying a couple of minutes ago Paul how
Tired he was looking but they seen these these young Lads to have an ability to go through bad patches maintain their form through that bad patch and then come out the other side and then be aggressive I think that is the hall marker of a champion isn’t it been able
To push yourself and push yourself and I think it’s it’s just interesting the way that some people will totally display and it’s written on their faces how hard they’re working and others will look very very Serene and calm even when they’re at maximum effort with just over
Half a lap to go then Kenya leading the team Race with four 14 points from Ethiopia 24 and Uganda in third someway back though and indeed no Uganda in this leading Group which is exclusively Kenyan and Ethiopian and it is Matthew Kip kich Ki Ruto who leads at the moment
He’s perhaps the smallest of this entire pack and yet at the moment the most aggressive bit of pushing there as they negotiating these twists and turns from the Ethiopians every meter counts you don’t want to put in any extra effort because they are redlining these S I
Suppose what that’s one thing we’ve got to mention for is they make it look easy but they are red lining they’re absolutely on the limit and if you look at how the Ethiopians are I don’t think we’ve yet seen an Ethiopian athlete really go to the front and push on
Because they tend not to do that until it’s really coming into a final serious move or just to get a better run through those hay Bal there and that’s very much because when the Ethiopians do train together in a group they’re very much in single file over an among the trees over
The tree roots and they need to have their eyes down at the road in front of them and the path in front of them just to make sure and you see them hand up just to warn the other athletes kuto is really testing them here you saw SE just now leading into that
Bridge uh really grimacing to try and stay with the tempo that kuto is laying down he’s definitely asking the questions here now a 10 of Ethiopia sumon aten who was sixth in the Ethiopian trials but he won the African used 3,000 last year he’s got good speed
He’s there as well in third place right of picture now we’re starting to see the mud path CH up as well and that’s also putting in a little bit of a factor into this race because when they are tired and they’re running at this speed that
Is a sudden change in turn over and In Cadence Sim s the T Ethiopia in second place has been grimacing for the last few minutes I wonder if he’s hanging on or if that is just the way he looks when he’s uh Under Pressure he’s maintaining holding
His form in the Wake there of ki’s really aggressive front running the 18-year-old seamate just pushing kuto there as they go through that sand patch and you can lose a meter or so on those Corners a critical meter perhaps yeah you can and for the taller athletes it’s very
Difficult to make that turn you can see the athletes warning each other that that turn is coming up but you almost have to stop and then accelerate again out of it and from the eth the canyon control of this race so far now the ethopians are actually stronger in that
Lead pack with three of them up there and SE hits the front SE it is kathi matching him stride for stride as well C kuto kathi you can feel the wind up can’t you they’ve got a few hundred meters to go it’s almost a straight shot now between them and the
Finish Line with that bridge to be negotiated here’s the ethopian 5,000 met champion this year is M Gabriel te who leads at the moment down to three the gaps appearing as this P Pace picks up Notch by notch they keep accelerating and see me who has been grimacing for
Five minutes now he’s working so hard he took all the punches of the kuto could throw at him over this last lap and has returned it with interest and comes down off the bridge there a little bit of extra momentum from him but has he got
The legs I think it’s definitely down to these two because that was a look over his shoulder from Kabuto that was checking behind him and he’s not interested in that battle at the moment for gold and silver who’s going to make move first kti tries but has got
Something left Samu kabati then flaing arms as with the line approaching as SE got the speed the Ethiopian looked over his shoulder there that was a giveaway the Gap is 2 m he’s still trying to attack kathi the Kenyan leads by a meter and a half he checks over his shoulder
Ste I don’t think it’s going to make it he’s going to run out of Road run out of grass but it is going to be going in this one for Kenya Samuel kathi takes goal in the men’s under 20 race here in Belgrade with about a meter and a half
The gap between himself and M SE K Pluto takes the bronze all that front running over the final circuit is rewarded with a place on the rostrom but the gaps opened up massively over the final few hundred meters with that acceleration it was like a really world class track race
Never mind about cross country this