Nsubuga spurs Uganda to 2nd position in Nairobi
Oct 28, 2007
JOSEPH Nsubuga’s time of two hours 22 minutes 45 seconds inspired Uganda to second place overall in the first leg of the Greatest Race on Earth marathon in Nairobi yesterday.
By Norman Katende
and agencies
JOSEPH Nsubuga’s time of two hours 22 minutes 45 seconds inspired Uganda to second place overall in the first leg of the Greatest Race on Earth marathon in Nairobi yesterday.
Though being seven minutes off the targeted Olympic qualifying time of 2:15.0, Nsubuga’s 14th-place finish helped Uganda to finish second out of 34 countries in the overall and Region Nation challenge. Kenya A tops the Nations’ challenge with Kenya B lying in third position behind Uganda.
The overall winner, after the four legs will walk off with sh174m courtesy of race sponsors Standard Chartered Bank. A total sh1.9bn prize money is up for grabs in the different Nations Challenge.
“It was a tough race. The course was flat but the heat was so much. We started running at 8.30am and you can guess what it meant,†Nsubuga said minutes after the race, to which the other Ugandan Felix Mukasa clocked 2:35:20.
The other legs will take place in Singapore, Mumbai and Hong Kong.
Kenya’s Rose Chepkemboi Chesire, a 25-year-old mother of two, outclassed Chinese teenage student Li Lu Lu to win the women’s International marathon.
Chesire, who started training for the marathon only three months ago, overtook early pace-setter Lu after the 35 kilometre mark and never looked back to win in two hours 44.14 seconds.
Lu, a high school student from Liaoning province in Southern China, was a distant second in 2:47.37.
It is the second time in a row that a Chinese athlete has filled the runner-up spot in the women’s race.
“I was running very well and was happily on course to winning my first ever marathon,†said Lu who blamed the Nairobi high altitude for the defeat.
Magdalene Syombua, the winner of the Peachtree 30km Road Race in the United States early this year, was third in 2:51.27
John Njoroge completed a Kenyan clean sweep by winning the men’s race in 2:15.50.
and agencies
JOSEPH Nsubuga’s time of two hours 22 minutes 45 seconds inspired Uganda to second place overall in the first leg of the Greatest Race on Earth marathon in Nairobi yesterday.
Though being seven minutes off the targeted Olympic qualifying time of 2:15.0, Nsubuga’s 14th-place finish helped Uganda to finish second out of 34 countries in the overall and Region Nation challenge. Kenya A tops the Nations’ challenge with Kenya B lying in third position behind Uganda.
The overall winner, after the four legs will walk off with sh174m courtesy of race sponsors Standard Chartered Bank. A total sh1.9bn prize money is up for grabs in the different Nations Challenge.
“It was a tough race. The course was flat but the heat was so much. We started running at 8.30am and you can guess what it meant,†Nsubuga said minutes after the race, to which the other Ugandan Felix Mukasa clocked 2:35:20.
The other legs will take place in Singapore, Mumbai and Hong Kong.
Kenya’s Rose Chepkemboi Chesire, a 25-year-old mother of two, outclassed Chinese teenage student Li Lu Lu to win the women’s International marathon.
Chesire, who started training for the marathon only three months ago, overtook early pace-setter Lu after the 35 kilometre mark and never looked back to win in two hours 44.14 seconds.
Lu, a high school student from Liaoning province in Southern China, was a distant second in 2:47.37.
It is the second time in a row that a Chinese athlete has filled the runner-up spot in the women’s race.
“I was running very well and was happily on course to winning my first ever marathon,†said Lu who blamed the Nairobi high altitude for the defeat.
Magdalene Syombua, the winner of the Peachtree 30km Road Race in the United States early this year, was third in 2:51.27
John Njoroge completed a Kenyan clean sweep by winning the men’s race in 2:15.50.