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The national Cross country team jetted\u00a0 back this afternoon\u00a0 from Hammamet Tunisia after a triumphant outing at the 6th\u00a0 edition of the\u00a0 Africa cross country championships last Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n The team bagged 8 medals 4 gold 3 silver and 2 bronze medals<\/p>\n Kenya\u00a0 won the overall title after asserting their dominance in the\u00a0 10km senior race titles just like they did in Algeria 4 years ago.<\/p>\n Athletics\u00a0 Kenya senior vice president Paul Mutwii was happy with the team\u2019s performance attributing it to\u00a0 good preparations\u00a0 and team work strategy.<\/p>\n Vincent Langat and Cynthia Chepngeno led Kenya to a 1-2 Podium sweep in the\u00a0 10km senior races while Gideon Kiplangat bagged\u00a0 another gold in the 8km under 20 race.<\/p>\n Kenya also carried the day in the mixed relay team.<\/p>\n Vincent Langat\u00a0 winner 10km,Cynthia Chepngeno\u00a0 winner 10km , Joash Ruto ensured another Gold medal\u00a0 for Kenya in the 8km under 20 race while Titus Kiprotich bagged the bronze.<\/p>\n The championships was last held in 2018 in Chlef Algeria\u00a0 before the calendar was disrupted by the Covid 19 pandemic.<\/p>\n Meanwhile trials for the World Cross country championships will be held at the Prison staff training college in Ruiru and will be open to all athletes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Triumphant x-country team returns home after victorious outing in Tunisia<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The national Cross country team jetted\u00a0 back this afternoon\u00a0 from Hammamet Tunisia after a triumphant outing at the 6th\u00a0 edition of the\u00a0 Africa cross country championships last Sunday. The team bagged 8 medals 4 gold 3 silver and 2 bronze medals Kenya\u00a0 won the overall title after asserting their dominance in the\u00a0 10km senior […]<\/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-6278","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\/6278","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=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}