In the battle of East Africa, and with an impressive start-to-finish victory, 19-year-old Agnes Tirop brought home Kenya s 300th IAAF World Cross Country Championships medal when winning the women s senior race in Guiyang on Saturday (28).

Yasin Haji finished second at the Ethiopian Trials at the Jan Meda International Cross Country in February but he had the beating of his compatriots and the rest of the world in the junior men s race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, G...

Ethiopian cross-country trials winner Letesenbet Gidey took an impressive junior women's victory at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 in her first international race outside of Ethiopia.

As the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 drew to a close on Saturday (28), thoughts already turned to the next edition of the championships in Kampala in 2017.

The IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 gets under way on Saturday (28) and you can follow all the action on the IAAF website.

The IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 will be the third time the championships have been staged on the continent of Asia, and the fact that all three editions have come in the past decade shows the growing importance and rising profi...