{"id":326213,"date":"2011-03-21T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/tanzania-kenya-bid-to-continue-world-cross-domination\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T08:52:28","slug":"tanzania-kenya-bid-to-continue-world-cross-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tanzania-kenya-bid-to-continue-world-cross-domination\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Kenya Bid to Continue World Cross Domination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"35.3217784476\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>20 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Punta Umbria \u2014 Kenya will seek an unprecedented second sweep of all six golds on offer at today&#8217;s World Cross-Country Championships to further wrest power away from traditional rivals Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyans dominated proceedings in Bydgoszcz, Poland, last year, Joseph Ebuyer and Emily Chebet claiming the individual senior titles, while the junior races and both team events also all went the way of the east African nation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Neither Ebuyer nor Chebet will be back to defend their crowns having failed to even finish their national trials, but such is the depth in running talent in Kenya that their replacements are installed among the firm favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Further Kenyan success would be a hammerblow to Ethiopia, whose athletes won 20 of the 30 individual titles between 2004 and 2009, but are now slightly rudderless in the absence of Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103210315.html\" title=\"Tanzania: Kenya Bid to Continue World Cross Domination\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanzania: Kenya Bid to Continue World Cross Domination<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) 20 March 2011 Punta Umbria \u2014 Kenya will seek an unprecedented second sweep of all six golds on offer at today&#8217;s World Cross-Country Championships to further wrest power away from traditional rivals Ethiopia. The Kenyans dominated proceedings in Bydgoszcz, Poland, last year, Joseph Ebuyer and Emily Chebet claiming the individual senior titles, while the junior races and both team events also all went the way of the east African nation. Neither Ebuyer nor Chebet will be back to defend their crowns having failed to even finish their national trials, but such is the depth in running talent in Kenya that their replacements are installed among the firm favourites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tanzania: Kenya Bid to Continue World Cross Domination - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/tanzania-kenya-bid-to-continue-world-cross-domination\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tanzania: Kenya Bid to Continue World Cross Domination - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) 20 March 2011 Punta Umbria \u2014 Kenya will seek an unprecedented second sweep of all six golds on offer at today&#039;s World Cross-Country Championships to further wrest power away from traditional rivals Ethiopia. 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