The World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold heads to Poland with top athletes expected in Poland on Sunday.
Uganda’s Joel Ayeko continues his campaign by racing the men’s 8km event in a city that has twice hosted the World Cross Country Championships, while Kenya’s Lucy Mawia, who finished second overall in last season’s Tour, contests the women’s 6km race.
After finishing second in 2021/22 Cross Country Tour, Mawia went on to race on the track and road, improving her PBs at a range of distances from 1500m to the half marathon, for which she clocked 1:09:38 in Udine last month.
She most recently finished fifth in the Pisa Half Marathon on 9 October and now returns to cross-country competition for the first time since March.
Among those joining her in Bydgoszcz are her compatriots Maureen Cherotich and Lilian Jepkemboi Lelei, plus Ethiopia’s Tsiyon Abebe and Czech Republic’s Moira Stewartova.
Polish 5,000m champion Angelika Mach was 19th in the European Championships marathon and competes on home soil, while Ukraine’s Viktoriia Kaliuzhna and Marina Nemchenko are also in the elite field.