{"id":149120,"date":"2026-08-07T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/world-athletics-u-20-championshipslemiso-and-losiwareng-cruise-to-3000m-sc-final\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:02:48","slug":"world-athletics-u-20-championshipslemiso-and-losiwareng-cruise-to-3000m-sc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/world-athletics-u-20-championshipslemiso-and-losiwareng-cruise-to-3000m-sc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"World Athletics U- 20 Championships:Lemiso and Losiwareng cruise to 3000M SC final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> In Eugene,Oregon,USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>African champion Emmanuel Lemiso and Nicholas Losiwareng Kitum, secured their spots in Sunday\u2019s 3000M SC as the 21st World Athletics Under-20 Championships entered its second day at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, USA. <\/p>\n<p>Losiwareng was the fastest, winning Heat 1 of the first round in 8:45.26, followed by Tunisia\u2019s Mohammed Ali Hamdi and Soheib Dissa from Algeria, who completed the top three. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his performance, Losiwareng said he is targeting a podium finish in Sunday\u2019s final before switching focus to next year\u2019s World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI led from start to finish. I didn\u2019t want to pressure myself in the finishing stages. Now, I am eyeing a podium finish and then focus on next year\u2019s World Athletics Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Lemiso also won Heat 2 from the start, finishing in 8:47.61. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe race was good today. My main goal was to qualify for Sunday\u2019s final, and now it\u2019s my prayer that I sign out my under-20 career with a medal,\u201d stated Lemiso. <\/p>\n<p>Moroccan Mahmoud Bilal and Jeremiah Kwemoi of Uganda finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Kenyans will be keen to retain the title won by Edmund Serem in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/world-athletics-u-20-championshipslemiso-and-losiwareng-cruise-to-3000m-sc-final\/\">World Athletics U- 20 Championships:Lemiso and Losiwareng cruise to 3000M SC final<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Eugene,Oregon,USA African champion Emmanuel Lemiso and Nicholas Losiwareng Kitum, secured their spots in Sunday\u2019s 3000M SC as the 21st World Athletics Under-20 Championships entered its second day at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Losiwareng was the fastest, winning Heat 1 of the first round in 8:45.26, followed by Tunisia\u2019s Mohammed Ali Hamdi and [&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-149120","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\/149120","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=149120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}