Helen Chepngeno won the senior women’s race at the 22nd World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Budapest on 26 March 1994. She was never to relinquish it over the remaining course of the 6.2km race. The tall figure with the number 222 pinned to her Kenyan vest proceeded to stand head and shoulders above a field that included defending champion Albertina Dias of Portugal, two-time winner Zola Pieterse of South Africa and Ireland’s Catherina