World junior cross-country champion Frankline Kibet will return to the USA barely six months after his victory, but this time on the track as he teams up with his captain Nehemiah Kipng\u2019eno in the 5,000m event at the 21st World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been working on speed and finishing and I feel my body is now ready, on the part of the team we thank God no injuries so far and we are hopeful of a better performance. \u201cSaid Kipng\u2019eno who is also the team captain<\/p>\n
Kibet, an 18-year-old student at St. Peter\u2019s Kapkecha School in West Pokot, has been in excellent form this year, having also won a silver medal in April at the Kip Keino Classic Continental Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been training well and we are ready for the competition Am going to fight and bring home gold just as I did in the cross country.\u201dKibet stated<\/p>\n
The captain, on his part, will be eyeing glory in his debut at the global championships as they aim to retain the title won by Andrew Kiptoo Alamisi in 2024. <\/p>\n
Twelve boys and eleven girls will carry the Kenyan flag at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, between the 5th and 9th of this month.<\/p>\n
The post Kibet and Kipng\u2019eno eager to retain Kenya\u2019s 5,000m title in Oregon<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World junior cross-country champion Frankline Kibet will return to the USA barely six months after his victory, but this time on the track as he teams up with his captain Nehemiah Kipng\u2019eno in the 5,000m event at the 21st World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon. \u201cI have been working on speed and finishing and […]<\/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-148592","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\/148592","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=148592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}