David Rudisha secures his spot to compete at the IAAF Athletics World Championships
– Athletics news
David Rudisha, the young middle distance runner from Kenya, secured his place for the next month’s IAAF Athletics World Championships in Daegu by prevailing at the National Bank of Kenya National Athletics Championships.
The event, which concluded on Saturday, provided 48 athletes with a chance to compete at the global level athletics event.
As expected, instead of new faces, experienced players earned the chance to contest at the World Championships in Athletics. However, as for the old horses of the game, all the four gold medals winner of the country cruised their way for Daegu in the Nairobi
competition.
Among the new faces, spectators observed the performance displayed by Hellen Obiri, the young girl who specialises for a middle distance run and who marked the final day of the National Athletics Championships by an upset, where she annihilated Olympic champion,
Nancy Jebet Lagat.
In order to make-up for the athletes who could not qualify for the global athletics event being organised in Korea, Athletics Korea has decided to send a contingent of 70 second best athletes to participate in the All African games being organised in Maputo.
The will then appear at the Pan African games, which are expected to commence from September 3.
Among a formidable field that is going to represent Kenya in the World Championships, the 1500m competitions will observe a charged-up Silas Kiplagat, who is not only all set to bag a title, but who has also marked his dominance over the track for covering
the required distance in a record time of three minutes and 31.39 seconds.
Commenting upon his success, the Kenyan hero, who was perhaps sure of his success in the event said, “I told you I was in good form. Now, it’s off to Monaco then return to train for Daegu. My aim is adding the World Championships gold to my Commonwealth
title but that is not for me to say whether it can happen. For now, I’m so happy.” Though the National Championships were held to extend a fair chance to players, but it was rather sure that runners like Kiplagat will definitely grab their places in the global
event.
Another formidable runner, who emerged at the event, was the middle distance runner, Asbel Kiprop. He could not defeat Kiplagat and in his words, it was because of the impressive performance the runner displayed during the run. Sharing his thoughts after
losing to Kiplagat, he said, “Today we lost to a very inform runner, he ran the fastest ever run here and could have been even faster if he went all the way. Now that we know the team, the focus is on going to win in Korea.” Kiprop himself finished his race
in three minutes and 32.26 seconds.
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