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World Half Marathon champion Sabastian Sawe led his compatriots to a Kenyan podium clean sweep in this year\u2019s Prague Half-Marathon held today in the Czech Republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sawe won the race in a course record time of 58 minutes and 24 seconds, lowering the previous course record set by Ethiopia\u2019s Atsedu Tsegay in 2007 by 23 seconds.<\/p>\n Sawe, who finished seventh at the recent World Athletics Cross Country Championship in Belgrade, Serbia, also improved his personal best by 5 seconds.<\/p>\n Sawe took the lead from his compatriots, Geoffrey Toroitich Kipchumba and Patrick Kabirech Mosin, at the 10km mark.<\/p>\n Breaking away from his rivals after little more than five miles, the 29-year-old passed 10km in 27:32 and drew further clear as the race unfolded in the Czech Republic capital to win by more than a minute and a half.<\/p>\n Racing under blue skies by the banks of the Vltava River, Sawe improved Atsedu Tsegay\u2019s long-standing event record of 58:47. He also ran a PB and rose to No.12 on the world all-time rankings.<\/p>\n Kipchumba finished second in 60 minutes and 02 seconds while Kabirech Mosin was third in 60 minutes and 15 seconds.<\/p>\n \u201cI am absolutely happy that I managed to achieve my personal best and to break the race record as well,\u201d he said. \u201cI had a great run, the course was fast and enjoyable. The fans drove me forward, I didn\u2019t experience any critical moment.<\/p>\n \u201cPrague is a beautiful city. I liked it during my training, but today the beauty of the city got me completely,\u201d added Sawe, who was a relatively late starter to international athletics.<\/p>\n The victory came seven days after he placed seventh in the World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. On that occasion he was part of\u00a0 Kenya\u2019s gold medal-winning men\u2019s team but was only fourth scorer.<\/p>\n\n Ethiopia\u2019s Gete Alemayehu won the women\u2019s race with a time of 1 hour 08 minutes and 10 seconds. Jesica Chelangat finished second in 1 hour 08 minutes and 13 seconds. A record 15,500 runners from 115 countries took part in the Prague Half Marathon this year.<\/p>\n The post Sawe leads Kenya\u2019s 1-2-3 podium dash in Prague Half-Marathon<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 World Half Marathon champion Sabastian Sawe led his compatriots to a Kenyan podium clean sweep in this year\u2019s Prague Half-Marathon held today in the Czech Republic. Sawe won the race in a course record time of 58 minutes and 24 seconds, lowering the previous course record set by Ethiopia\u2019s Atsedu Tsegay in 2007 by […]<\/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-23363","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\/23363","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=23363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}