Nairobi — World Cross Nation junior bronze medalist Matthew Kipruto led a Kenyan podium sweep within the males’s race on the Cinque Mulini Cross Nation on Sunday in San Vittore, Italy.
Kipruto clocked 27:26 to clinch first place, forward of World Below 20 5000m champion Andrew Alamisi, who timed 27:29 in second place.
In third place was Matthew Kipchumba who clocked 27:45.
The win was Kipruto’s first since Might 2022 when he ran 3:49.66 to win the lads’s 1500m on the Ishikawa Championships in Ishikawa, Japan.
The 19-year-old’s final race was on the Birell 10km race in Praha, Czech Republich the place he timed 27:50 to assert third place.
For Alamisi, the race was his second since he received gold on the World Below 20 Championships in Lima, Peru.
Within the girls’s race, Sheila Jebet clocked 18:48 to complete second within the girls’s 6.2km race.
Ethiopia’s Yenenesh Shimket ran 18:35 to emerge victorious whereas Olympic 10,000m silver medalist Nadia Battocletti of Italy got here third in 18:49.
Jebet’s efficiency got here per week after she additionally completed second on the Cardiff Cross Nation Problem in Wales, clocking 20:16.
It additionally marks her second podium end in 2024 after a yr by which she has come so shut but so removed from making the highest three.
The 18-year-old completed fifth within the girls’s 5000m on the World Below 20 Championships after clocking 15:51.93.