{"id":4372,"date":"2015-03-29T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/commentary\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2015-03-29T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:41:28","slug":"agnes-tirop-is-youngest-world-cross-country-winner-since-zola-budd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyapage.net\/commentary\/kenya-athletics-news-3\/agnes-tirop-is-youngest-world-cross-country-winner-since-zola-budd\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Tirop is youngest world cross country winner since Zola Budd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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19 year old Agnes Tirop was in superb form, leading from start to finish to win the senior women’s race at the 2015 world cross country championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy to have won Kenya\u2019s 300th medal,\u201d Tirop said after her landmark victory. \u201cI was trying to push the pace from the start. I had no fear, I was just trying to run my own race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her closest challenger was Ethiopia\u2019s Senbere Teferi, who is a few months older. The two led the pack leaving the rest further behind. Tirop made her move with 200m to go leaving Teferi in her wake.<\/p>\n

Tirop has previously been the 2013 junior women\u2019s silver medallist and two-time world junior 5000m bronze medallist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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