{"id":426467,"date":"2011-05-19T02:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/kenya-nyahururu-athletes-suspend-training-after-wanjiru-death\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:11:34","slug":"kenya-nyahururu-athletes-suspend-training-after-wanjiru-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/kenya-nyahururu-athletes-suspend-training-after-wanjiru-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nyahururu Athletes Suspend Training After Wanjiru Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"28.0496585971\">\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>Wanjohi Gakio<\/p>\n<p>18 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Many Nyahururu based athletes interrupted their training yesterday at the local stadium in honour of Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru. Over 127 runners converged at the municipal stadium to plan how to give the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medalist the best send off.<\/p>\n<p>Among those at the meeting were the 2005 world 10,000 metres champion Charles Kamathi, 2009 Seoul marathon winner Francis Biwott, Nagano<\/p>\n<p>marathon champion Nephat Kinyanjui, Paul;ine Wangui who was a member of the Kenyan team to the 2009 world half marathon championship, Charles Munyeki, who was fourth in the 2009 Chicago marathon won by the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Others included this year&#8217;s Thessalonika marathon silver medalist Monica Wangare, former Honolulu marathon winner Joseph Riri who is also the late Wanjiru&#8217;s brother in law and the 2001 Chicago marathon runner&#8217;s up Peter Ndirangu. Coaches who attended the meeting were Robert Kioni who facilitated Wanjiru&#8217;s travel to Japan where he honed his running career, Francis G. Kamau, Francis M. Kamau of Mfae club and Ibrahim Kinuthia.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Kenya Nyandarua North sub branch assistant secretary Joseph Kamau was also present. The Mfae club coach warned the runners against being drawn into any rumours or speculations concerning the demise of Wanjiru. However, there was no agreement as to whether or not the runners should suspend training until after the burial.<\/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>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105190171.html\" title=\"Kenya: Nyahururu Athletes Suspend Training After Wanjiru Death\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Nyahururu Athletes Suspend Training After Wanjiru Death<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Wanjohi Gakio 18 May 2011 Many Nyahururu based athletes interrupted their training yesterday at the local stadium in honour of Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru. Over 127 runners converged at the municipal stadium to plan how to give the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medalist the best send off. Among those at the meeting were the 2005 world 10,000 metres champion Charles Kamathi, 2009 Seoul marathon winner Francis Biwott, Nagano marathon champion Nephat Kinyanjui, Paul;ine Wangui who was a member of the Kenyan team to the 2009 world half marathon championship, Charles Munyeki, who was fourth in the 2009 Chicago marathon won by the deceased. <\/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-426467","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: Nyahururu Athletes Suspend Training After Wanjiru Death - 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\/19\/kenya-nyahururu-athletes-suspend-training-after-wanjiru-death\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Nyahururu Athletes Suspend Training After Wanjiru Death - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Wanjohi Gakio 18 May 2011 Many Nyahururu based athletes interrupted their training yesterday at the local stadium in honour of Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru. 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