All the winners at the IAAF/Mikkeller World Cross Country Championships Aarhus 2019 will have to pass the doping test before they receive the prize money.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has pronounced the tough conditions as the world battles the use of drugs that has infiltrated the sport in the recent past.
“The payments of prize money in the senior races are dependent upon the athletes clearing the usual anti-doping procedures,” IAAF announced in a statement.
Meanwhile, there will be no prize money for the Under 20 participant even as more than 300 athletes, 171 men and 139 women expected to grace the individual senior races, while more than 200 (121 men, 111 women) will be in action in the U20 races. Ten teams have been entered for the mixed relay.
Two-time world cross country champion Geoffrey Kamworor will go head to head with Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo who is the world U20 cross-country champion.
Kenyan cross-country champion Amos Kirui and Ethiopian champion Mogos Tuemay are also expected to be strong challengers for the Sh3million prize money.
In the senior women’s race, world 5000m champion Hellen Obiri, who is making her cross country debut at this stage will line up against steeplechase world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech. The race also has two-time world U20 cross-country champion Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia and Stella Chesang, the Commonwealth 10000m champion.
Kenyan U20 champion Samuel Chebolei and world U18 steeplechase champion Leonard Bett will be up against tough opposition from Double European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men’s U20 race.
Sarah Chelangat, the Youth Olympic champion in 3000m and cross country is among the favourites for the women’s race along with world U20 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet of Kenya and African U20 cross-country champion Girmawit Gebrzihair of Ethiopia.
Kenya will be seeking to defend the mixed relay title with the help of world and Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto and world 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi in Aarhus, Denmark.
Prize money for Individual races:
1st – 30,00000
2nd – 15,000
3rd – 10,000
4th – 7000
5th – 5000
6th – 3000
Teams:
1st – 20,000
2nd – 16,000
3rd – 12,000
4th – 10,000
5th – 8000
6th – 4000
Mixed relay:
1st – 12,000
2nd – 8000
3rd – 6000
4th – 4000
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