{"id":141909,"date":"2026-05-22T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/u20-trials-cynthia-chepkurui-and-emannuel-kiprono-punch-world-tickets\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:02:52","slug":"u20-trials-cynthia-chepkurui-and-emannuel-kiprono-punch-world-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/u20-trials-cynthia-chepkurui-and-emannuel-kiprono-punch-world-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"U20 Trials: Cynthia Chepkurui and Emannuel Kiprono punch World tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>African U18 champion\u00a0 Cynthia Chepkurui and Emmanuel Kiprono punched their tickets for the World Athletics Under 20 championship on day one of the national trials held Friday \u00a0at the Nyayo Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chepkirui from Lemotit Camp, qualified for the World Championship in the USA after claiming victory in the 5,000m final in 15:24.4, followed by African U20 bronze medalist in 3000m Joyline Chepkemoi, who also made the cut after timing 15:37.8.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Kiprono also made the team after winning the\u00a0 3000m final in a time of 7:35.4 ahead of Edwin Sanutia.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day trials end today \u00a0after which a team of a bout 30 athletes will be selected to represent the country at the global championship set for 5th and 9th August this year in Eugene, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya finished\u00a0 5th at the 2024 World Championship in Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/u20-trials-cynthia-chepkurui-and-emannuel-kiprono-punch-world-tickets\/\">U20 Trials: Cynthia Chepkurui and Emannuel Kiprono punch World tickets<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African U18 champion\u00a0 Cynthia Chepkurui and Emmanuel Kiprono punched their tickets for the World Athletics Under 20 championship on day one of the national trials held Friday \u00a0at the Nyayo Stadium. Chepkirui from Lemotit Camp, qualified for the World Championship in the USA after claiming victory in the 5,000m final in 15:24.4, followed by African [&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-141909","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\/141909","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=141909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}