[Team Kenya celebrating after winning gold in the Mixed Relay of the 42nd edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Kampala, Uganda, March 2017. Photo/Africa Review]

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Team Kenya head coach Juma Ndiwa has saluted the team for the excellent performance at the just concluded IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Kampala.

Kenya emerged top globally, in the overall standings apart from the seven individual medals of two gold, two silver and three bronze.

Kenya also won the medley relay gold, gold in senior women team and silver in the senior men and junior men and women.

Though both junior teams failed to sparkle, Ndiwa praised the overall performance saying it re-affirmed Kenya’s grip on the cross country.

“The overall performance was good and I want to congratulate the team for the good show. Our initial target was to scoop all the individual medals but we didn’t actualise in the junior category. But all in all we are proud of the team,” Ndiwa who was leading the team for the first time said on phone.

Geoffrey Kamworor successfully defended his title in the men’s senior cadre while the year 2008 world junior silver medallist Irene Cheptai  got her first cross country medal in the senior  women’s category.

Asble Kiprop anchored the medley relay team to victory putting the country on the books of history as the first nation to win the inaugural mixed relay gold.