{"id":397825,"date":"2011-04-26T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/26\/kenya-mumo-tops-5000m-race-at-inter-unit-athletics-showdown\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:30:30","slug":"kenya-mumo-tops-5000m-race-at-inter-unit-athletics-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/kenya-mumo-tops-5000m-race-at-inter-unit-athletics-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mumo Tops 5,000m Race At Inter-Unit Athletics Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.5171403457\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Muigai Kiguru<\/p>\n<p>25 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Charles Mumo won the 5, 000m race in style as curtains fell on the General Service Unit inter-company athletics championship at Nyayo Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Mumo embarked on a late killer kick to clock 14:30.3 while his closest competitor Samwel Musau (K-coy) timed 14:40 for second. Josepk Komen was third clocking 14:44.<\/p>\n<p>A lacklustre performance was witnessed in the 1,500m despite Kipngetich Kirui of S-coy running away with the top honours after clocking 3:44. Paul Melly of headquarters timed 3:46 for second while his teammate Francis Kagonzi came third in 3:56.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s category Phylis Kiptoo of G-Coy posted a time of 4:49.9 for her win. Kiptoo had earlier made a go at the 800m race where she finished third in a time of 2:20.6. In her winning race, Kiptoo was followed by teammate Veronica Kipkeu who timed 5:17.0 as Emmaculate Chepchumba finished third clocking 5:34.0.<\/p>\n<p>Juliet Arono of headquarters won the 800m women&#8217;s race with a time of 2:2:16.3 as her namesake Juliet Awani of G-coy came in second in a time of 2:17.7. James Kigen of headquarters won the 10,000m men&#8217;s race in 29:26.0.<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of the absence of the Unit&#8217;s top brass, that included Daniel Yego, Kigen stuck to the leading pack before breaking clear with five laps to go.<\/p>\n<p>Yego of Training College stuck to Kigen&#8217;s shoulder but help him off and beat him on the homestretch with a powerful final kick. Kigen now prepares to battles seasoned athletes like Kenya Police&#8217;s Sammy Kitwara, Leonard Mucheru, Bernard Kipyego and Moses Masai during next months provincials championships.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104260031.html\" title=\"Kenya: Mumo Tops 5,000m Race At Inter-Unit Athletics Showdown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Mumo Tops 5,000m Race At Inter-Unit Athletics Showdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Muigai Kiguru 25 April 2011 Charles Mumo won the 5, 000m race in style as curtains fell on the General Service Unit inter-company athletics championship at Nyayo Stadium. Mumo embarked on a late killer kick to clock 14:30.3 while his closest competitor Samwel Musau (K-coy) timed 14:40 for second. Josepk Komen was third clocking 14:44. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Mumo Tops 5,000m Race At Inter-Unit Athletics Showdown - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/kenya-mumo-tops-5000m-race-at-inter-unit-athletics-showdown\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Mumo Tops 5,000m Race At Inter-Unit Athletics Showdown - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Muigai Kiguru 25 April 2011 Charles Mumo won the 5, 000m race in style as curtains fell on the General Service Unit inter-company athletics championship at Nyayo Stadium. 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