{"id":440460,"date":"2011-06-13T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T14:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/13\/kenya-varsity-students-fail-to-hit-world-games-standard\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T14:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T14:36:44","slug":"kenya-varsity-students-fail-to-hit-world-games-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/13\/kenya-varsity-students-fail-to-hit-world-games-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Varsity Students Fail to Hit World Games Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"21.981741573\">\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>13 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Kenya University students missed the qualifying mark for the August&#8217;s world university games in China during their trials at Chepkoilel University over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya University Athletic trials were meant to select the team to represent Kenya at the World University Games scheduled for August 12-24 in Shenzen, China but none of the entrants dipped under the qualifying marks.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s 5,000m, little known Joseph Kariuki of Kenyatta came closest with a timing of 15:09.4 just missing the 15:00.00 benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s category, Florece Kimaiyo of KU stormed to victory in 17.41.2 failling to cut under the event&#8217;s qualifying mark of 17.00 minutes. Robert Lang&#8217;at of Egerton missed the men&#8217;s 800m mark by a mere 4.04 seconds after winning the race in 1:54.04 minutes. In the women&#8217;s 800m, Jane Karemi of KEMU who was chasing the 2.15.00 mark posted 2.40.5 minutes to win the race.<\/p>\n<p>In the 10,000m men and women. Leonard Muchira and Florence Kimaiyo both of Kenyatta University won in 33.35.4 and 39.38.89 respectively.<\/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\/201106130870.html\" title=\"Kenya: Varsity Students Fail to Hit World Games Standard\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Varsity Students Fail to Hit World Games Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Stanley Magut 13 June 2011 Kenya University students missed the qualifying mark for the August&#8217;s world university games in China during their trials at Chepkoilel University over the weekend. The Kenya University Athletic trials were meant to select the team to represent Kenya at the World University Games scheduled for August 12-24 in Shenzen, China but none of the entrants dipped under the qualifying marks. In the men&#8217;s 5,000m, little known Joseph Kariuki of Kenyatta came closest with a timing of 15:09.4 just missing the 15:00.00 benchmark<\/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-440460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Varsity Students Fail to Hit World Games Standard - 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\/06\/13\/kenya-varsity-students-fail-to-hit-world-games-standard\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Varsity Students Fail to Hit World Games Standard - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Stanley Magut 13 June 2011 Kenya University students missed the qualifying mark for the August&#039;s world university games in China during their trials at Chepkoilel University over the weekend. 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