{"id":414868,"date":"2011-05-02T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/kenya-paralympians-gather-in-eldoret-for-cross-country\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:46:03","slug":"kenya-paralympians-gather-in-eldoret-for-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/kenya-paralympians-gather-in-eldoret-for-cross-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Paralympians Gather in Eldoret for Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"15.0326205147\">\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>Stanley Magut<\/p>\n<p>30 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>ACTION galore is expected as the first Paralympics cross country is launched today in Eldoret. Double Deaflympic gold medallist David Kipkosgei is among the elite athletes spicing up the men&#8217;s&#8217; deaf category line-up. Kipkosgei revealed that he will use the event as a build-up for the next years&#8217; London Olympics where he eyes to claim the podium finish. &#8220;I will be eying nothing but a win here in Eldoret to enable me start my campaign for the Olympics.&#8221; Kipkosgei said. He said that running before the home fans is a great opportunity to their fans who have been watching them on television. &#8220;There is no one here at home who has seen me running because our races are not run regularly. This is one of the salient chances for our fans to meet with and cheer us.&#8221;He added.<\/p>\n<p>Kipkosgei won gold medals in 5.000m and 10, 000m at the 2009 world Deaflympic championships in Taipei, Taiwan. Other elite runners to beat are the triple Paralympics champion Henry Kiprono Kirwa, Baxton Menjo and Abraham Tarbei.<\/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>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105021222.html\" title=\"Kenya: Paralympians Gather in Eldoret for Cross Country\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Paralympians Gather in Eldoret for Cross Country<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Stanley Magut 30 April 2011 ACTION galore is expected as the first Paralympics cross country is launched today in Eldoret. Double Deaflympic gold medallist David Kipkosgei is among the elite athletes spicing up the men&#8217;s&#8217; deaf category line-up. Kipkosgei revealed that he will use the event as a build-up for the next years&#8217; London Olympics where he eyes to claim the podium finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Paralympians Gather in Eldoret for Cross Country - 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-paralympians-gather-in-eldoret-for-cross-country\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Paralympians Gather in Eldoret for Cross Country - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Stanley Magut 30 April 2011 ACTION galore is expected as the first Paralympics cross country is launched today in Eldoret. 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