The 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 28, 2009.

Amman is also only the second occasion on which Asia has hosted the World Cross Country Championships, which are the oldest IAAF World Athletics Series event, first celebrated under the IAAF banner in 1973.

[2] The senior male team for Kenya won their 22nd team title in 24 years despite the fact that no senior male runner from Kenya has won an individual title since 1999.

[3] Florence Kiplagat was the first Kenyan senior women's winner since Helen Chepngeno in 1994.

We are determined to perform at the same level as Kenyan men.”[4] Further race reports of the event were given in The New York Times[5][6] and for the IAAF.