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Bett led commonwealth Games 3000m at silver medalist Abraham Kibiwott and Africa champion Benjamin Kigen in the tough battle for the prized Olympic tickets. &#8220;We are a bit worried but our focus will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[4685,3554],"class_list":["post-29911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-conseslus-kipruto","tag-kipruto"],"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>Kenya\u2019s Leonard Bett makes Olympic 3000m steeplechase squad with ease - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World under 20 steeplechase silver medalist Leonard Bett made the Olympic 3000m squad with ease at Kasarani Stadium on Saturday.\" \/>\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\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenya\u2019s Leonard Bett makes Olympic 3000m steeplechase squad with ease\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World under 20 steeplechase silver medalist Leonard Bett made the Olympic 3000m squad with ease at Kasarani Stadium on Saturday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease\" \/>\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=\"2021-06-19T14:51:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/fcna7t9r1fkzelub60cdc1628b63b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"994\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kenya\u2019s Leonard Bett makes Olympic 3000m steeplechase squad with ease\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-19T14:51:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease\"},\"wordCount\":125,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/fcna7t9r1fkzelub60cdc1628b63b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Conseslus Kipruto\",\"Kipruto\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/kenyas-leonard-bett-makes-olympic-3000m-steeplechase-squad-with-ease\",\"name\":\"Kenya\u2019s Leonard Bett makes Olympic 3000m steeplechase squad with ease - 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