{"id":8110,"date":"2012-02-19T02:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/athletics-karoki-wins-kenyan-championship-in-weakened-field\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T02:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:13:32","slug":"athletics-karoki-wins-kenyan-championship-in-weakened-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/athletics-karoki-wins-kenyan-championship-in-weakened-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Karoki wins Kenyan championship in weakened field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">NAIROBI<\/span> Feb 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan-based Bedan Karoki<br \/>\nwon the men&#8217;s Kenyan cross country championship on Saturday over<br \/>\n12 kms ahead of Timothy Too in a sprint finish.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Karoki clocked 35 minutes 19.2 seconds to Too&#8217;s 35:25.0 with<br \/>\nVincent Kiprop third in 35:37.0.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s eight kms race was won by Joyce Chemtai in<br \/>\n26:08.0 ahead of another cross country veteran Margaret Wangare,<br \/>\nwho clocked 26:09.4.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World marathon champion Edna Kiplagat finished third in<br \/>\n26:12.8 and the 2010 world cross country champion Emily Chebet<br \/>\nwas fourth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several leading runners opted to miss the championships<br \/>\nafter the world governing body&#8217;s decision to make the world<br \/>\nchampionships a biennial instead of an annual event. The world<br \/>\nchampionships will not be staged this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s race will instead decide the team to compete at<br \/>\nthe Africa cross country championships in Cape Town on March 18.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s race failed to attract defending champion,<br \/>\nGeoffrey Mutai, who is also the New York and Boston marathon<br \/>\nchampion.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twice world marathon champion Abel Kirui and Commonwealth<br \/>\nGames steeplechase champion Richard Mateelong also stayed away.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Double world champion Vivian Cheruiyot, former 10,000 world<br \/>\nchampion Linet Masai and Dubai marathon champion Lucy Kabuu were<br \/>\nabsent from the women&#8217;s race.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI Feb 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan-based Bedan Karoki won the men&#8217;s Kenyan cross country championship on Saturday over 12 kms ahead of Timothy Too in a sprint finish. Karoki clocked 35 minutes 19.2 seconds to Too&#8217;s 35:25.0 with Vincent Kiprop third in 35:37.0. The women&#8217;s eight kms race was won by Joyce Chemtai in 26:08.0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}