-Action now shifts to the second leg of the second season in Nyanza in September.
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Maurine Chebor delivered a commanding performance during the opening leg of BingwaFest Season Two with double victories in the women’s 10,000m and 5,000m in Afraha Stadium at Nakuru County over the weekend.
Fresh from winning the opening leg of the Athletics Kenya/Betika Cross Country Series in Machakos last weekend, Chebor led Sandafelis Chebet (32:22.1) to a 1-2 finish at Afraha, just like they did last weekend in Machakos as Brenda Chepchirchir (32:26.3) settled for the third place to seal the podium positions in the women’s race in the morning.
In the afternoon, she then put up a strong finish in the 5,000m to clock 15:40.8 and finish ahead of Caroline Kariba (15:46.4) and Rebecca Mwangi (15:46.8) who were second and third respectively.
In the men’s 10,000m race, Tokyo-based Richard Etir clocked 28:19.5 to win ahead of Kevin Chesang who timed 28:25.2 as Ronald Kipkoech sealed the podium in 28:27.7.
Chebor and Etir took home Ksh. 300,000 as Chebet and Chesang won Ksh. 250,000 with Chepchirchir and Kipkoech pocketing Ksh. 200,000.
Fourth and fifth place finishers rounded off the prize bracket and received Ksh. 100,000 and Ksh. 75,000 in that order.
Daniel Kimaiyo won the men’s 5,000m with a commanding time of 13:23.6 followed by Vincent Lagat (13:40.6) as Gideon Rono (13:41.2) finished third.
Kenya’s 4x400m team for the World Championship in Tokyo next month comprising of Brian Tinega, Kevin Kipkorir, Boniface Mweresa, and Zablon Ekwam stormed to victory in the men’s 4x400m.
Coach Stephen Mwaniki noted that they used the event to gauge their preparedness for the global showpiece.
“It was a good build up to for us towards the World Championship in Tokyo. BingwaFest was a very good event for us. As a technical bench, we were able to look at their performance and be able to single out things to rectify ahead of the championship as we
continue with our training,” Mwaniki said.
In the 5,000m category, winners were awarded Ksh. 250,000, second place finishers Ksh. 150,000, third place Ksh. 100,000, fourth place Ksh. 50,000, and fifth place Ksh. 30,000.
Action now shifts to the second leg of the second season in Nyanza in September.
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