{"id":134963,"date":"2026-03-21T07:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/okecth-tinega-and-krop-in-the-hunt-for-medals-in-poland\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:02:44","slug":"okecth-tinega-and-krop-in-the-hunt-for-medals-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/okecth-tinega-and-krop-in-the-hunt-for-medals-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Okecth, Tinega and Krop in the hunt for medals in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Kenyans;Brian Tinega,Mercy Oketch and Jacob Krop, will be in the hunt for the medals on day 2 of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze today.<\/p>\n<p>Tinega and Oketch will compete in the 400m finals at 6.34pm and 8.40pm Kenyan times, respectively, after successfully sailing through round 1 and the semis on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>2022 World silver medallist\u00a0Krop will be eyeing his first indoor podium finish when he lines up in the 3000m final starting at 7.22pm.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Kibet, who bagged silver in 2022 in Belgrade, will also be in action for the 800m semi-final from 3.08pm.<\/p>\n<p>The USA leads the Championship medal table with 2 gold and 1 bronze, followed by Ukraine with 2 gold and a silver, while Italy is placed 3rd with 1 gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/okecth-tinega-and-krop-in-the-hunt-for-medals-in-poland\/\">Okecth, Tinega and Krop in the hunt for medals in Poland<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Kenyans;Brian Tinega,Mercy Oketch and Jacob Krop, will be in the hunt for the medals on day 2 of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze today. Tinega and Oketch will compete in the 400m finals at 6.34pm and 8.40pm Kenyan times, respectively, after successfully sailing through round 1 and the semis on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}