After being postponed twice in 2021 and 2022 due to the coronavirus, the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia 🇦🇺 is finally back and we’re only a couple hours away from the first race of the program 🌎 Loaded fields across the board! ⚡️ Let’s preview the Senior Men’s Race! Joshua Cheptegei 🇺🇬 returns to WXC with hopes of defending his world cross country title from four years ago in Aarhus, Denmark. A lot has changed in the last four years for Cheptegei; since then, Joshua has become one of the greatest distance runners of the 21st century, winning 10000m World titles in 2019 & 2022, Olympic 5000m gold in 2021, and 5000m & 10000m world records in 2020. However, it won’t be all smooth sailing for the defending champion as he faces fellow countryman Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬, silver medalist in 2019 and half marathon world record holder from 2021. Kiplimo won’t be the only challenger for Cheptegei, as he will also face a strong contingent of Kenyan ...