{"id":424496,"date":"2011-05-16T01:57:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T01:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/uganda-kiplagat-starts-qualification-bid\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T01:57:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T01:57:05","slug":"uganda-kiplagat-starts-qualification-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/uganda-kiplagat-starts-qualification-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Kiplagat Starts Qualification Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"18.2666129682\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newvision180.jpg\" alt=\"New Vision (Kampala)\" title=\"Visit New Vision (Kampala)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reuben Olita<\/p>\n<p>14 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>BENJAMIN Kiplagat will start his campaign to qualify for the World Athletics Championships at the second leg of the Samsung Diamond League due in Shanghai today.<\/p>\n<p>The world event is due August in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Kiplagat, who last competed at the National Cross Country Championships held in Jinja in February, is the only Ugandan in the race that has the top stars of 3000m steeplechase event.<\/p>\n<p>They include Ruben Ramolefi of France and Kenyan Brimin Kipruto, Richard Mateelong, Paul Koech and Sylus Kosgei- who have all won medals at different international events.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alex Malinga and Gerald Omondi will race in the Safaricom Mombasa International Marathon due today.<\/p>\n<p>They arrived in Mombasa on Friday.<\/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>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105160057.html\" title=\"Uganda: Kiplagat Starts Qualification Bid\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uganda: Kiplagat Starts Qualification Bid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Reuben Olita 14 May 2011 BENJAMIN Kiplagat will start his campaign to qualify for the World Athletics Championships at the second leg of the Samsung Diamond League due in Shanghai today. The world event is due August in South Korea. Kiplagat, who last competed at the National Cross Country Championships held in Jinja in February, is the only Ugandan in the race that has the top stars of 3000m steeplechase event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-424496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"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>Uganda: Kiplagat Starts Qualification Bid - 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\/16\/uganda-kiplagat-starts-qualification-bid\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Uganda: Kiplagat Starts Qualification Bid - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Reuben Olita 14 May 2011 BENJAMIN Kiplagat will start his campaign to qualify for the World Athletics Championships at the second leg of the Samsung Diamond League due in Shanghai today. 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