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Camp to Refine Young Runners

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Published on Saturday, 02 June 2007 06:44

An athletics camp will be set up in Kebirigo to assist in the nurturing of athletics talent in Nyamira District. Leading Dutch athletics agent Pieter Langerhorst said this on Saturday when he launched the Kebirigo 10 kilometre road race trials at Kebirigo town. Nyamira has produced top international athletes including Tom Nyariki, Fred Onyancha and Hezron Mokamba. Langerhorst said the camp will be run by the newly formed Kebirigo Runners Club who were the main organisers of the weekend's inaugural trials. Langerhost has managed a number of leading Kenyan long distance athletes including this year's New York Marathon bronze medallist Lornah Kiplagat.

He runs the Iten High Altitude Training Camp together with Kiplagat. Onesmus Nyerere, who won last week's Energizer Mosocho Golden League 10 kilometre road race, completed a double by winning the Kebirigo race in 30 minute, 23 seconds on a challenging course ahead of over 50 other athletes. Jason Nyachoti was second in 30 minutes 52 seconds and Jason Mosoti third in 30 minutes 58 seconds. The women's race was won by, Eunice Orwaru in 37 minutes 28.15 seconds. She finished ahead of Rael Michira who clocked 40 minutes and 27 seconds.

Gladys Otero and Daniel Gekara won the three-kilometre junior titles. The meeting was also attended by Charles Asati who won a silver medal for Kenya in the 400x400 metres at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and gold four years later in Munich. The athletes were flagged off by area councillor Kombo Marigwa and prizes given away by prominent personalities from the area including businessman Samuel Obanyi, Rebecca Atunga and Athletics Kenya's Nyanza branch secretary Peter Oenga. The next trials in the series that will help select athletes who will join senior camps in Iten, will be held next April in Kebirigo. Oenga said the next big race in the area will be the Naftali Temu Memorial Road Race which will be run along the Kisii-Sotik highway.