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Temu Race Route Confirmed

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Published on Saturday, 02 June 2007 06:43

Veterans will compete in a two-kilometre race at next month's Naftali Temu Memorial Road Race in Kisii. Athletics Kenya's Nyanza branch officials led by secretary Peter Oenga yesterday surveyed the course which they passed as fit for the January 4 race in honour of the legendary Kenyan international athlete. " The course is perfect for the race and we are appealing to athletics fans and officials to turn up for the race," Oenga said yesterday. The 10-kilometre main race will start at Metamaywa and end at Nyaronde on the main Kisii to Sotik highway. "We have talked to the area Members of Parliament, including Henry Onyancha Obwocha, Godfrey Masanya and Nyang'au Okioma, to help in making the race a success and we look forward to their support," Oenga said.

Athletics Kenya's Nyamira sub-branch official Charles Asati is also expected to run in the veterans race alongside Robert Ouko. Asati and Ouko were in Kenya's 4 x 400 metres relay team that won gold at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Asati also ran in the team that won silver in the same event at the 1968 Games in Mexico.

Besides the 10-kilometre and two-kilometre races, there will be a three-kilometre race for juniors. "The course is very good and should attract a good number of athletes - we are confident it will be a great success," AK's Nyamira branch treasurer Christopher Otwabe Atege, who is also the principal of Biticha High School, said after marking the route yesterday. AK's national office has donated a trophy for the main race. The Temu meeting comes after last Saturday's inaugural Kebirigo Runners Club's trials at Kebirigo market in Nyamira District. Onesmus Nyerere won the men's race in Kebirigo to add to his Energizer Golden League victory in Mosocho a week earlier. Nyerere clocked 30 minutes and 23 seconds.

The women's race was won by little known Eunice Orwaru clocked 37: 28.15 while Daniel Gekara and Gladys Otero won the three-kilometre junior races for boys and girls' respectively. The meeting was co-sponsored by Dutch manager Pieter Langerhorst.