The fifth Kip Keino Traditional was held on April 20, 2024, and Justin Lagat attended. That is his story for RunBlogRun.
The Kip Keino Traditional is the second meet on the Continental Tour Gold in 2024. Tales are stating that Athletics Kenya hopes the well-known assembly will likely be added to the Diamond League, probably the most prestigious collection of occasions in our sport, subsequent to the World Athletics Championships.
Justin Lagat offered some tales on main occasions within the Kip Keino Traditional.
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The boys’s hammer throw and the boys’s 200m have been among the many occasions that offered nice competitions and world-leading performances on the fifth version of the Kip Keino Traditional World Athletics Continental Tour Gold.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo got here in as the favourite star within the males’s 200m race, coming in with two world-leading instances, a world-best time of 30.69 and a world-leading 44.29 within the 400m. Nonetheless, he’ll now be going again to Botswana with only one having misplaced the 400m WL mark to his countryman, Bayapo Ndori, who ran a world-leading time of 44.10 right here in a race the place USA’s Bryce Deadmon was second in a seasonal better of 44.41 forward of one other Botwanan, Leungo Scotch in a private better of 44.54. In fourth place in that 400m race Kenya’s Zablon Ekwam was beside himself with an Olympic qualifying time and a private better of 44.69.
Within the 200m, USA’s Lindsey Courtney had an awesome begin and led after the bend, registering a brand new world-leading time of 19.71. Courtney obtained the win in a photo-finish with Tebogo. Tebogo registered the identical time as his season’s finest.
Canada’s Ethan Katzberg threw a novel world-leading and assembly report of 84.38m within the males’s hammer throw, a mark that was the furthest within the final sixteen years. This occasion had been anticipated to be an enormous competitors between the reigning Olympic Champion, Wojciech Nowicki of Poland, reigning world champion and 2022 – 2023 winner on the Kip Keino Traditional; Pawel Fajdek, the reigning world champion from Budapest, and the 2022 world champion. Mykhaylo Kokhan of Ukraine got here second with a seasonal finest throw of 80.76m, forward of Nowicki’s 79.14m.
The 800m races endeared Kenyan followers as Mary Moraa and Emmanuel Wanyonyi featured prominently.
As anticipated, Moraa, the dancing queen of the ladies’s 800m occasion, simply gained her particular occasion after a strong end to stretch the hole within the residence stretch. Paced by her sister, the reigning world champion went via the primary 400m in early 56 seconds. She maintained the within lane within the final lap and managed the tempo earlier than extending the lead within the residence straight to complete in a brand new assembly report of 1:57.96. Vivian Chebet Kiprotich completed second in 1:58.26, whereas Nelly Jepkosgei of Bahrain completed third in 1:58.93.
Wanyonyi once more started his 12 months with a world-leading time on the Kip Keino Traditional, similar to final 12 months. The crowds within the stadium actually bowed all the way down to Wanyonyi after the spectacular world-leading time of 1:43.57. Aaron Cheminingwa, the just lately topped African Video games champion, completed second in a private better of 1:44.10 forward of Ferguson Rotich, who ran 1:44.90 to finish the rostrum.
USA’s Kenneth Bednarek had an awesome night, successful the boys’s 100m in 9.91 forward of Emmanuel Matadi of Liberia (9.99) and Jeremiah Azu of Nice Britain (10.00).
