Africa-Press – Kenya. Eva Cherono will be the star attraction at the at the Cross Internacional de Venta de Banos, the seventh Gold leg of this season’s World Athletics Cross Country Tour, to be held on Sunday in Spain.
The 25-year-old has improved her 10,000m lifetime best this year to 30:49.23 in Stockholm and made her cross country debut this campaign three weeks ago in Seville when she had to settle for eighth.
Cherono will be joined by her fellow Kenyan Edinah Jebitok, a 1500m specialist credited with a 4:03.46 performance who made the Kenyan squad for the Tokyo Olympics.
Ethiopia’s Spain-based Likina Amebaw Ayel should complete the podium on Sunday as she proved to be in fine form a fortnight ago in Alcobendas where she came third. Spanish hopes rest on Cristina Ruiz, seventh in the U23 race in Dublin last Sunday, and Laura Luengo, fifth in Alcobendas and 33rd in the senior European race.
Venta de Banos is a small village of barely 6400 inhabitants placed some 260km away from Madrid, but organisers can boast about having one of the most remarkable cross country races worldwide.
Among its past winners are Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele (2004) and the reigning Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, victorious in 2017 in the men’s event, while their fellow Ethiopian and current distance ace Letesenbet Gidey took the spoils here in 2018.
Weather forecasters predict a sunny and windless day and a temperature slightly higher than usual at this stage of the year, with the thermometer reaching between 7-9ºC by the time of the event.
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