{"id":14901,"date":"2020-09-24T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2020-09-24T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:23:46","slug":"kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans eye victory in Doha Diamond League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Xinhua<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> World champions Timothy Cheruiyot and Conseslus Kipruto will no doubt want to raise the bar in 800m and 1,500m respectively at the Doha Diamond League\u00a0meeting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The world and Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Kipruto, who missed the opening leg of Diamond League series in Monaco in August after testing positive for COVID-19, will return to action after shaking off the virus.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 25-year-old Kipruto will be competing in an unfamiliar event in Doha, when he takes on compatriot Brimin Kipruto, Vincent Kibet and Bethwell Birgen in the men\u2019s 1,500m event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad to have been declared fit to compete after missing the opening leg of the series. I am also excited to compete in the 1,500m, I am really looking forward to running the shorter distance on Friday,\u201d Kipruto, who boasts a personal best of 3:39.57 in the 1,500m, told Xinhua on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheruiyot, the world 1,500m champion, will compete in 800m. The 24-year-old has a personal best of 1:43.11 in the event from August 2019 during the Kenyan national championships in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>He clocked an impressive 3:28.45 to win the 1,500m in Monaco, just four one-hundredths of a second outside his lifetime best.<\/p>\n<p>Cheruiyot will contest the event against fellow Kenyans including world 800m bronze medallist Ferguson Rotich and Commonwealth Games 800m champion Wycliffe Kinyamal.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kinyamal and Rotich boast personal bests of 1:43.12 and 1:42.54 respectively in the 800m race.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an exciting lineup in women\u2019s 3,000m. The event will consist of Kenyans 2019 world champions over 5,000m Hellen Obiri and Beatrice Chepkoech, 3,000m steeplechase winner.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the mix will be Olympic 3,000m steeplechase silver medallist Hyvin Kiyeng and world 5,000m runner-up Margaret Chelimo.<\/p>\n<p>The world 10,000m bronze medallist Agnes Tirop of Kenya will also spice up the 3,000m event.<\/p>\n<p>After running 2:29.15 in 1,000m in Monaco, narrowly missing the world record, Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, who is also the Olympic 1,500m champion, will return to her specialty, the 1,500m at the meet.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Xinhua AfricaPress-Kenya: World champions Timothy Cheruiyot and Conseslus Kipruto will no doubt want to raise the bar in 800m and 1,500m respectively at the Doha Diamond League\u00a0meeting tomorrow. The world and Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Kipruto, who missed the opening leg of Diamond League series in Monaco in August after testing positive for COVID-19, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[1539,3090],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-covid-19","tag-doha-diamond-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenyans eye victory in Doha Diamond League - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World champions Timothy Cheruiyot and Conseslus Kipruto will no doubt want to raise the bar in 800m and 1,500m respectively at the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenyans eye victory in Doha Diamond League\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World champions Timothy Cheruiyot and Conseslus Kipruto will no doubt want to raise the bar in 800m and 1,500m respectively at the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-24T20:23:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kenyan_megastars_eye5f6c6da45e40a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kenyans eye victory in Doha Diamond League\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-24T20:23:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league\"},\"wordCount\":334,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kenyan_megastars_eye5f6c6da45e40a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19\",\"Doha Diamond League\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyans-eye-victory-in-doha-diamond-league\",\"name\":\"Kenyans eye victory in Doha Diamond League - 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