Kenyan Athletes dominate at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro

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Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)

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Kenyan Athletes dominate at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

There was a strong performance at the 5th CISM World Military Games 2011 (track and field programme) which ended on 23/07/2011, Saturday. The main event, of the day, was the women’s 3000m Steeplechase where Kenya's Mercy Njoroge won the race in 9:36.92. She was far in front of Iríni Kokkinaríou of Greece, who was a distant second in 9:39.53.

Also, Olympic champion Nancy Langat made the race very interesting by winning the race using a tactical approach to the 1500m race and came with a time of  4:18.15, with Germany's Denise Krebs coming in second with a time of 4:15.87.

In the middle and long-distance races, Kenyan men collected the 1500m, 5000m and 10,000m titles.

Gideon Gathimba won the 1500m race in 3:40.62 ahead by edging off Moroccan Mohamed Moustaoui (3:41.04) and Imad Touil (3:41.24) of Algeria to second and third place, respectively. In the 5000m, Mark Kiptoo and Vincent Chepkok came in first and second, and clocked 13:06.17 and 13:06.31, respectively, pushing Bilisuma Shume of Bahrain to the third position, with a time of 13:06.73 personal best. In the 10000m race, Josephat Menjo won the race in 28:36.92 by breaking away from Bahraini Hasan Mahboob Ali who clocked 28:37.08.

The men's 800m, however, went to Poland's Marcin Lewandowski, who did 1:45.77, ahead of Kenyans Jackson Kivuva (1:45.93) and Geoffrey Matum (1:45.94), who came in second and third, respectively.

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