{"id":113404,"date":"2026-01-10T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113404\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:27:08","slug":"jacob-kiplimo-is-king-of-the-country-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/113404\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Kiplimo is king of the country in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ugandan wins senior men’s World Cross title on Saturday from Berihu Aregawi and Daniel Ebenyo.<\/p>\n

After winning world cross country senior titles in 2023 and 2024, Jacob Kiplimo made it a hat-trick of victories in Tallahassee, Florida.<\/p>\n

Kiplimo has moved up to the marathon with success in the past year but he has not lost his cross-country running ability. Such was his dominance in Florida on Saturday, he began celebrating in the closing stages as he romped clear of his rivals.<\/p>\n

Taking the various water, sand, mud and “alligator alley” obstacles in his stride, Kiplimo covered the flat but sun-drenched and challenging 10km course in 28:18.<\/p>\n

Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia, a perennial runner-up in major global races, was second again in 28:36 as Daniel Ebenyo of Kenya was third in 28:45.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jacob Kiplimo (World Athletics)<\/p>\n

With east Africans filling the first eight places, the top non-African was Thierry Ndikumwenayo \u2013 the reigning European champion from Spain \u2013 in ninth.<\/p>\n

Much was expected of Jimmy Gressier, the world 10,000m champion, but he found himself finishing second Frenchman home as Yann Schrubb was 11th and Gressier 15th.<\/p>\n

Other non-Africans to excel included Parker Wolfe of the United States in 12th while Adrian Wildshcutt of South Africa was 14th.<\/p>\n

\"\"Daniel Ebenyo, Jacob Kiplimo, Berihu Aregawi (World Athletics)<\/p>\n

Ireland’s Brian Fay also enjoyed a top 20 placing in 16th, just one second behind Gressier.<\/p>\n

David Mullarky was top Brit in 26th with team-mates Matt Ramsden 53rd, Jacob Cann 71st and Rory Leonard 79th.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia won the team prize ahead of Kenya, Uganda, United States and France as Britain wound up 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ugandan wins senior men’s World Cross title on Saturday from Berihu Aregawi and Daniel Ebenyo. After winning world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-113404","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\/113404","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=113404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}