{"id":1163404,"date":"2022-08-02T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/02\/kenyan-athlete-and-ghanas-sakat-lariba-share-honors-at-first\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:08:50","slug":"kenyan-athlete-and-ghanas-sakat-lariba-share-honors-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/02\/kenyan-athlete-and-ghanas-sakat-lariba-share-honors-at-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan athlete and Ghana\u2019s Sakat Lariba share honors at first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/296155781_359426373026320_415420212547969911_n-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"296155781_359426373026320_415420212547969911_n\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Over 600 athletes took part in the first inter-city marathon in the Ghanaian capital of Accra Saturday to usher in the 2022 Homowo celebrations, a festival that marks the beginning of food harvest among the native Ga ethnic group of Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Both male and female participants from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Kenya, China, and some other countries and regions joined the race.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan athlete Martin Tirop Kimurgor won the men\u2019s gold, while Sakat Lariba from Ghana won in the women\u2019s division.<\/p>\n<p>Kimurgor told the press he was happy to have participated and won the ultimate prize at stake in the inter-city marathon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trained hard for this event, and thankfully I won. I am ready to participate in any other marathon in the future,\u201d the Kenyan athlete said.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Senyo Penni, general manager of Medivents Consult, the marathon\u2019s organiser said the purpose of organising the competition was to help unearth talents and develop the sport in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we keep promoting this event, we would help develop many talents for Ghana and Africa. I encourage the youth of Ghana and Africa to take to sports because it promotes development, promotes tourism, and engenders peaceful coexistence,\u201d Penni expressed.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"t7OiSosky94\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam News on Adom TV (2-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7OiSosky94?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 600 athletes took part in the first inter-city marathon in the Ghanaian capital of Accra Saturday to usher in the 2022 Homowo celebrations, a festival that marks the beginning of food harvest among the native Ga ethnic group of Accra. Both male and female participants from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Kenya, China, and some other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13241,250,1953,2897,21944,21945,1967],"class_list":["post-1163404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-athlete","tag-ghanas","tag-honors","tag-kenyan","tag-lariba","tag-sakat","tag-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}