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Battle for women's 10,000m gold shifts to 2023 Budapest

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Kenya's Hellen Obiri celebrates winning the Women's 5000m final at the 2019 IAAF Athletics World Championships at the Khalifa International stadium in Doha on October 5, 2019. AFP

Kenya will have to wait for another one year to reclaim the women’s 10,000m title at the World Athletics Championships that run in Budapest, Hungary, next year on August 19-27.

The nation has not won gold in the race in the last two editions of the global showpiece -2017 London and Doha in 2015 -and lost it on Saturday at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.

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