-African Championships bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay Joan Cherono is expected to lead the quest for glory in the women’s 400m, with sprinter Monicah Zephania doing so in the women’s 100m.
DENNIS MURIMI NJIIRU-IMG KENYA LIMITED.
All is set for the BingwaFest Coast edition athletics showdown at the Shanzu Teachers Training College tomorrow, Wednesday, February 19th,2025.
The discipline, one of the four disciplines in the BingwaFest sports extravaganza, did not take place alongside football, basketball, and rugby earlier this month as is the norm as it was pushed forward to allow the National Cross-Country Championship, which Betika sponsors, take place.
African Championships bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay Joan Cherono is expected to lead the quest for glory in the women’s 400m, with sprinter Monicah Zephania doing so in the women’s 100m. Meanwhile, Wiseman Were is expected to lead the trio of Elkana Chemelil, Felix Kibet, and Meshach Babu in the men’s 4x400m.
More than KES 5M will be up for grabs in the various races that will be on show at Shanzu, with both male and female athletes receiving equal prize money.
Gold medalists in the lucrative 10,000m, both men and women, will take home KES 300,000 as the first and second runners-up will pocket KES 250,000 and KES 200,000 respectively.
The athletes who finish fourth and fifth will round off the prize bracket and will receive KES 100,000 and KES 75,000 in that order.
In the 5,000m category, winners will be awarded KES 250,000, second-place finishers KES 150,000, third-place KES 100,000, fourth-place KES 50,000, and fifth-place KES 30,000.
Prizes for the top five in the 100m, 4000m, 800m, and 1,500m will be the same, with gold medalists receiving KES 150,000, silver medalists KES 100,000, and bronze medalists KES 60,000.
The fourth and fifth-place finishers will pocket KES 30,000 and KES 20,000.
The 4×4 and 4×1 relays will see winning teams awarded KES 100,000, as positions two and three receive KES 60,000 and KES 30,000 respectively.
The other disciplines took place just over a week ago, with winners in football and rugby pocketing KES 1 million each while the winning teams in the 3×3 basketball went home KES 500,000 richer.
The first runners-up for football and rugby were awarded KES 500,000 while the second runners-up rounded off the prize category and received KES 250,000. In basketball, the teams that finished second and third took home KES 250,000 and KES 100,000 respectively.
BingwaFest has so far transversed six regions namely, Western Region edition held in Mumias in August, Nyanza Edition hosted in Kisumu in September, which was followed by the Eastern Region chapter in October at Machakos, the Rift Valley edition at Eldoret in December 2024, and recently the Mountain Edition in Meru last month, and now the Coast Edition in Mombasa with Nairobi set as the next stop.
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BingwaFest is a nationwide multi-sport grassroot extravaganza, aimed at raising the profile of sports in Kenya, and showcasing the huge untapped talent across the country and played across multiple sporting codes, namely, football, rugby, basketball, and athletics.
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