On a busy day for the IAAF Governing Council, neighbours Uganda were also granted the rights to stage the 2017 World Cross Country Championships in Kampala that will incidentally mark a decade since Mombasa hosted the now bi-annual event in 2007 on a roaring day for East African sport.
Earlier, Doha were proclaimed the hosts of the 2019 World Championships with Ostava gaining the rights to stage the 2018 Continental Cup that ran in Morocco in September.
Kenya will take over the World Youth baton from the Colombian city of Cali next year with 250 days to go before the next running of a championships that gave the world a first glimpse of among a plethora of great athletes, Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt and recently, Commonwealth champions Mercy Cherono and Faith CHepng’etich.
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