{"id":113394,"date":"2026-01-10T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113394\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:14:08","slug":"agnes-jebet-ngetich-and-jacob-kiplimo-crowned-senior-champions-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113394\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Jebet Ngetich and Jacob Kiplimo crowned senior champions in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Kiplimo<\/a> claimed a historic third consecutive title at the 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships<\/a> in Tallahassee, USA.<\/p>\n

The Ugandan long-distance runner<\/a>, an Olympic bronze medallist in the men\u2019s 10,000m at Tokyo 2020<\/a>, came home in 28 minutes 18 seconds in the senior men\u2019s race on Saturday (10 January).<\/p>\n

Only three other men have claimed three consecutive world cross-country titles, and Kiplimo now joins John Ngugi,<\/a> Paul Tergat<\/a> and Kenenisa Bekele<\/a> in achieving the \u2018threepeat\u2019 on the trail.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia\u2019s Olympic 10,000m silver medallist Berihu Aregawi<\/a> added a World Championship silver medal, followed closely behind by Kenya\u2019s Daniel Simiu Ebenyo<\/a> in third place.<\/p>\n

Kiplimo, a three-time Olympian, has now won five World Championship gold medals and a total medal tally of eight. After winning last year\u2019s Chicago Marathon in the United States, the Ugandan has secured another medal to open the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Earlier on at Florida’s\u00a0Apalachee Regional Park, Agnes Jebet Ngetich won the first individual world title of her career in the senior women\u2019s race. The Kenyan athlete was a force to be reckoned with, finishing in 31:28.<\/p>\n

With double defending world champion Beatrice Chebet<\/a> not competing this year as she expects her first child<\/a>, Ngetich stepped up to add to her two team gold medals and individual bronze from the previous two World Championships.<\/p>\n

Uganda\u2019s Joy Cheptoyek<\/a>\u00a0and Senayet Getachew\u00a0of Ethiopia rounded off the podium in Florida, the first time the competition has been held in the USA since Boston 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Kiplimo claimed a historic third consecutive title at the 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-113394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113394","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=113394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}