{"id":444164,"date":"2011-06-20T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/kenya-mutai-is-back-in-boston-for-10-kilometres\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T08:06:02","slug":"kenya-mutai-is-back-in-boston-for-10-kilometres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/kenya-mutai-is-back-in-boston-for-10-kilometres\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mutai is Back in Boston for 10 Kilometres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.2536250318\">\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>Chris Mbaisi<\/p>\n<p>17 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Boston Marathon champions Geoffrey Mutai and Caroline Kilel are the standout names lining-up for the inaugural B.A.A. 10km on June 26. Highlighting the men&#8217;s field is 2011 Boston Marathon champion Geoffrey Mutai, of Kenya. During the 115th Boston Marathon in April, the 29-year old Mutai ran the world&#8217;s fastest marathon in 2:03:02 (Downhill course:136.29m) with his sensational performance 57 seconds faster than the official world record time of 2:03:59 set by Haile Gebrselassie at the 2008 Berlin Marathon. Mutai has a 10km PB of 27:39 (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Also returning to Boston will be Moses Mosop of Kenya and Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia, the runner-up and third place finishers at Boston this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mosop is coming off 25,000m and 30,000m world record performances on the track earlier this month, and has a personal best in the 10km of 28:04 (2004). Gebremariam brings his road racing expertise back to Boston, trying to better his own personal best of 27:41 (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Also in the men&#8217;s field are Kenyans Simon Ndirangu (27:49) and Samuel Ndereba (28:01), as well as 2009 B.A.A. Half Marathon winner Martin Fagan of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s field is led by 2011 Boston Marathon champion Caroline Kilel. The 30-year-old Kenyan returns to run her first race since winning the olive wreath in April. Joining her will be New Zealand&#8217;s Kim Smith, a 2008 Olympian and national record holder at 5km (14:59. Smith, whose personal best at 10km is 31:23, led the first 18 miles of the 115th Boston Marathon before a torn muscle forced her to drop out. Now healthy and recovered, the Providence College graduate is coming off of a sixth place finish in the New York Mini 10K, in which she ran 32:32.<\/p>\n<p>Australian national record holder and three-time Olympian Benita Willis, the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country champion, has the fastest personal best in the field at 31:17. Gebremariam&#8217;s wife, Werknesh Kidane, the 2003 IAAF world cross country champion, is also entered in the race.The B.A.A 10K includes a prize purse of $30,000 (Sh2.7m) with $5000 (Sh445,000) awarded to the winners and equally distributed among the top male and female finishers.<\/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>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106200267.html\" title=\"Kenya: Mutai is Back in Boston for 10 Kilometres\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Mutai is Back in Boston for 10 Kilometres<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Chris Mbaisi 17 June 2011 Boston Marathon champions Geoffrey Mutai and Caroline Kilel are the standout names lining-up for the inaugural B.A.A. 10km on June 26. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-444164","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 - 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