Kiprop set to bounce back
Feb 01, 2010
BONIFACE Kiprop will make a comeback to national cross country running in Amuria this weekend after a two year absence.
By Norman Katende
BONIFACE Kiprop will make a comeback to national cross country running in Amuria this weekend after a two year absence.
Kiprop, also a Commonwealth 10000m gold medallist, has been training in Endebess, Kenya for the last three months. Officials believe that the national event will offer him an opportunity to bounce back in the limelight, after a lean two-year spell.
“He has been training hard. He wants to make a comeback and his attitude has improved,†said athletics federation secretary Beatrice Ayikoru.
The national event will be used to select national athletes to the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland next month.
The womens’ competition in Amuria will miss Dorcus Inzikuru. Inzikuru yesterday revealed that she will not be fully fit for the national event, as she is still battling an injury from the MTN marathon.
“But I am heading to Iten for a three month training stint to be fit for the rest of the season,†she said.
* South Africa’s women’s 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya, the subject of an investigation into her gender, will soon return to the track in local competitions, her coach told AFP.
“She is going to run at the Yellow Pages,†a national series that begins on February 19, Michael Seme said.
If she wins the local races, Seme said she is ready to compete internationally again.
“You must run well and beat the other South Africans before we are sure that she is going to compete internationally,†he said.
But he said that despite the media storm over the investigation into her gender, Semenya never thought about quitting.
“She nevers thinks of leaving athletics. She is always willing to run, not quitting,†he said.
The 19-year-old dominated the 800m event in the world championships last August in Berlin.
The stunned the world by sauntering home to take the title, 2.45 seconds quicker than Kenya’s defending champion Janeth Jepkosgei who finished second, despite coming into the event a virtual unknown.
BONIFACE Kiprop will make a comeback to national cross country running in Amuria this weekend after a two year absence.
Kiprop, also a Commonwealth 10000m gold medallist, has been training in Endebess, Kenya for the last three months. Officials believe that the national event will offer him an opportunity to bounce back in the limelight, after a lean two-year spell.
“He has been training hard. He wants to make a comeback and his attitude has improved,†said athletics federation secretary Beatrice Ayikoru.
The national event will be used to select national athletes to the 2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland next month.
The womens’ competition in Amuria will miss Dorcus Inzikuru. Inzikuru yesterday revealed that she will not be fully fit for the national event, as she is still battling an injury from the MTN marathon.
“But I am heading to Iten for a three month training stint to be fit for the rest of the season,†she said.
* South Africa’s women’s 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya, the subject of an investigation into her gender, will soon return to the track in local competitions, her coach told AFP.
“She is going to run at the Yellow Pages,†a national series that begins on February 19, Michael Seme said.
If she wins the local races, Seme said she is ready to compete internationally again.
“You must run well and beat the other South Africans before we are sure that she is going to compete internationally,†he said.
But he said that despite the media storm over the investigation into her gender, Semenya never thought about quitting.
“She nevers thinks of leaving athletics. She is always willing to run, not quitting,†he said.
The 19-year-old dominated the 800m event in the world championships last August in Berlin.
The stunned the world by sauntering home to take the title, 2.45 seconds quicker than Kenya’s defending champion Janeth Jepkosgei who finished second, despite coming into the event a virtual unknown.