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Hellen Obiri stuns rivals in senior race

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By DENNIS OKEYO AND IAAF | Mar 31, 2019

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2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Aarhus, Denmark - March 30, 2019 Kenya's Hellen Obiri celebrates winning the women's race. [Reuters]

World 5000m champion Hellen Obiri ensured the senior women’s crown stayed with Kenya, winning the senior 10km women race at 2019 World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.

Obiri, 29, conquered the uphill, downhill, mud and windy conditions, one of the toughest course to become the first women to win outdoors, indoors and cross country world individual titles at the senior level to emulate Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia in her world cross country debut.

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