Olympic medallist Jessica Hull has anchored Australia to victory in the mixed relay event at the World Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hull teamed up with Oliver Hoare, Linden Hall and Jack Anstey to win gold, with the Australians recording a time of 22 minutes and 23 seconds across the four 2 kilometre legs of the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Australia stopped the clock three seconds ahead of France, with Ethiopia third (22:34).<\/p>\n
It is Australia’s fifth medal in World Athletics Cross Country Championships history.<\/p>\n
Hull and Hoare helped Australia win bronze in the same race at the 2023 world titles, which were held in Bathurst.<\/p>\n
“We’re all pretty proud of that one,” said Hull, who won silver in the 1,500m on the track at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n
“There’s been a belief that we cannot just medal, but we can probably win it, and we all carried that into today because we weren’t afraid to try and run to win.”<\/p>\n
In the individual events, Lauren Ryan was the best-placed Australian in the women’s 10km race, finishing in 13th position.<\/p>\n
Ryan ran a time of 33:47, while fellow Australian Leanne Pompeani was six seconds behind in 15th place.<\/p>\n
Kenya’s Agnes Jebet Ngetich won gold in 31:28.<\/p>\n
Ky Robinson was 24th in the men’s 10km race, one place ahead of Australian teammate Edward Marks.<\/p>\n
Robinson clocked 29:56, two seconds quicker than Marks, with Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo winning in a time of 28:18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic medallist Jessica Hull has anchored Australia to victory in the mixed relay event at the World Cross…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,3187,5284,89788,214900,214899,85,75002,214901],"class_list":["post-405268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cross-country","tag-gold","tag-jessica-hull","tag-mixed-relay","tag-oliver-hoare","tag-sports","tag-world-athletics","tag-world-athletics-cross-country-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}