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Senior race

Women- 10:05pm, Live SS5

Men- 1pm, Live SS5

 
Rwandan athletes will today find out whether they are contender or pretenders at the world stage when the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championship gets underway in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Both the boys and girls’ team go into today’s event hoping to break Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya’s dominance among athletes form this region.

The male team of Dieudonne Disi, Sylvain Rukundo and Gervais Hakizimana is the most likely to face the sternest test compared to their female counterparts.

Disi will be trying to make headlines if he can finish better than last year’s 22 position.

Meanwhile, undisputed greatest cross country runner of time, Ethiopia’s Kenenisia Bekele will be hoping to enter new record-breaking territory if he succeeds in regaining the senior men’s title but rest be assured, defending champion Zersenay Tadesse of Eritrea will have other idea.

Bekele is attempting to regain his kingship after a year’s enforced absence following Tadesse’s shock victory at the 35th Championships in Mombasa last March. 

Because of his record of 11 World Cross Country individual gold medals and his return to form after failing to finish in Mombasa, Bekele will start as favorite but Tadesse showed when the two met on the same course in January that he will not give up his crown easily.

Rwanda will be represented by five cross runners and a coach.  

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