Kenyan athletes have taken the top six places in the latest cross-country race in the World Challenge series, held at Vilamoura in Portugal.

The ten-kilometre event was won by Charles Kamathi, who outsprinted the five-times world cross-country champion, Paul Tergat.

David Chelule was just behind in third place.

The Ethiopian world ten-thousand metre champion, Gete Wami, won the women's race over a six-kilometre course.

Second and third places were taken by Kenyan runners, Lydia Cheromei and Leah Malot.

Meanwhile, the Kenyan-born athlete, Wilson Kipketer, has broken the world indoor record for the one-thousand metres.

Kipketer, who now runs for Denmark, recorded two minutes, fifteen point-two-five at a meeting in the German city of Stuttgart.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service