Cardiff to host World Cross Country Tour event
Charity Cherop (far left) went on to win the 2024 women's race after trailing at this stage
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Wales will host the United Kingdom's only World Athletics Cross Country Tour gold label event of 2025 on Saturday, 8 November.
The event in Cardiff has attracted entries from Olympians and World Championship competitors among the 700-plus who will race alongside club runners.
Athletes with ambitions to be named in Great Britain's mixed relay team for the European Cross Country Championships in Portugal in December will be on the start line.
The annual British Athletics Cross Challenge Series opener is also among the races incorporated into the day.
Entrants from Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Canada, Spain, Denmark the Netherlands and Ireland have signed up for the spectacle at Llandaff Fields in the Welsh capital.
Uganda's Daniel Kibet will be hoping to improve on his third-place finish in 2024 in the 9,600m senior men's event, which also features highly rated Kenyan trio Mathew Kipsang, Victor Kimosop and Stephen Kimutai.
In the senior women's 6,400m race another Ugandan, Charity Cherop, is aiming for a second successive Cardiff win in a field that includes 2024's second-placed Sheila Jebet of Kenya and Belgrave Harrier Kate Axford, who finished third 12 months ago.