{"id":414182,"date":"2011-05-02T08:32:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/kenya-mumias-explodes\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:32:52","slug":"kenya-mumias-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/kenya-mumias-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mumias Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.4221278854\">\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>29 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Athletes from the Kip Keino High Performance Training Centre (HPTC) in Eldoret will add international flavour to the Athletics Kenya\/ National Bank meeting starting today in Mumias. Athletes from at least five countries are expected in Mumias this morning for the two-day event.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the HPTC runners will be Marvin Blanco from Venezuela, who specialises in the 3,000m steeplechase with a personal best time of 8:39 minutes. Blanco will, however take part in the 1,500m and 5,000m at the Mumias meeting. &#8220;I will not be running in my 3,000m steeplechase specialty in Mumias as I am looking to improve my speeed and endurance. &#8220;By taking part in the 1,500m , I will be gauging my speed and the 5,000m race will give me the necessary endurance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelan said he is targeting to run at least 8:20 by the time he ends his training tenure in Kenya in June. Mali&#8217;s Mousa Camara will take part in the 800m. Camara has a personal best time of 1:51 in 800m but will be targeting 1:48 at the end of his training period here.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka, best known for cricket, will have two runners in Mumias. Chaminda Wijekoon will race in the men&#8217;s 1,500m while compatriot Champika Dilkurshi will run in the women&#8217;s 1,500m<\/p>\n<p>Wijekoon has a personal best of 3:40 in the men&#8217;s 1,500m while Champika has 4:22 in the women&#8217;s category. Tony Wamula of Zambia will race in the 1,500m and has a time of 13:24 while Sudan&#8217;s Alwia Makii will be bidding for honours in the 800m, where she has posted 2:03. Makii was fourth at the Kisii Meeting and hopes to improve on her performance this time round.<\/p>\n<p>HPTC coach Joseph Ngure said the athletes are improving fast and their target is to run in the the 2012 Olympics for their respective countries. &#8220;They are so determined and the enviroment which is filled with champions makes them work even harder,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the case of Sudanese Ahmed Ismail Ahmed, who trained at the HPTC and went on to win a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.<\/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>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105020294.html\" title=\"Kenya: Mumias Explodes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Mumias Explodes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) 29 April 2011 Athletes from the Kip Keino High Performance Training Centre (HPTC) in Eldoret will add international flavour to the Athletics Kenya\/ National Bank meeting starting today in Mumias. Athletes from at least five countries are expected in Mumias this morning for the two-day event. Leading the HPTC runners will be Marvin Blanco from Venezuela, who specialises in the 3,000m steeplechase with a personal best time of 8:39 minutes<\/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-414182","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: Mumias Explodes - 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\/05\/02\/kenya-mumias-explodes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Mumias Explodes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) 29 April 2011 Athletes from the Kip Keino High Performance Training Centre (HPTC) in Eldoret will add international flavour to the Athletics Kenya\/ National Bank meeting starting today in Mumias. 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