{"id":103248,"date":"2026-01-02T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:34:08","slug":"two-time-champion-kiplimo-to-lead-ugandan-team-for-wxc-tallahassee-26-news-tallahassee-fl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103248\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time champion Kiplimo to lead Ugandan team for WXC Tallahassee 26 | News | Tallahassee, FL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time defending champion Jacob Kiplimo will lead Uganda\u2019s team for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Tallahassee 26 on 10 January.<\/p>\n<p>Kiplimo won the U20 title on home soil in Kampala in 2017 before claiming senior titles in Bathurst in 2023 and Belgrade in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He will go for a senior hat-trick in Tallahassee, where he will be joined on the men\u2019s team by Dolphine Chelimo, Dan Kibet, Emmanuel Kibet, Keneth Kiprop and Deogracius Musobo.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s team includes Sarah Chelangat, who finished fifth in Belgrade two years ago, and Joy Cheptoyek, who finished seventh in the world 10,000m final in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The U20 women\u2019s squad features world U20 5000m bronze medallist Charity Cherop.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan team for Tallahassee<\/p>\n<p>Senior women: Sarah Chelangat, Rebecca Chelangat, Kereen Chemusto, Martha Chemutai, Joy Cheptoyek, Rispa Cherop<br \/>Senior men: Dolphine Chelimo, Dan Kibet, Emmanuel Kibet, Jacob Kiplimo, Keneth Kiprop, Deogracius Musobo<br \/>U20 women: \u200ePeace Chebet, Felister Chekwemoi, Nancy Chepkwurui, Charity Cherop, Bentalin Yeko<br \/>U20 men: Solomon Andiema, Daniel Kiprotich Chelogoi, Abraham Cherotich, Dan Kipyeko, Jeremiah Kwemoi<br \/>Mixed relay: \u200eBrenda Chekwemoi, Sylvia Chelangat, Silas Chemutai, Daniel Comboni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time defending champion Jacob Kiplimo will lead Uganda\u2019s team for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Tallahassee 26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-103248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}