{"id":12668,"date":"2021-06-21T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=12668"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:38:41","slug":"kamworor-checks-cheptegei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei","title":{"rendered":"Kamworor checks Cheptegei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya have named big wig Geoffrey Kamworor, Rodgers Kwemoi and Weldon Kipkurui as the trio who will battle Uganda\u2019s biggest hope for a medal at the Tokyo Olympics \u2013 Joshua Cheptegei .<\/p>\n<p>Kamworor won the Kenyan Olympic Trials in Nairobi at the weekend in 27:01.06 seconds. The fiery 28-year-old has only just returned to the grand stage having suffered a motorcycle accident last year.<\/p>\n<p>By earning selection to Tokyo, it means world record holder Cheptegei will face one of his friends Kamworor in Tokyo. The two were training partners in Eldoret before the 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The pairing will be meeting on track for the first time since the 10000m final at the 2017 London World Championships whrere Cheptegei came second behind Briton Mo Farah, with Kamworor sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya may be an athletics powerhouse but they have not won the men\u2019s 10000m Olympic gold since Naftali Temu at the 1968 Mexico City Games.<\/p>\n<p><b>dkyeyune@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Kenya have named big wig Geoffrey Kamworor, Rodgers Kwemoi and Weldon Kipkurui as the trio who will battle Uganda\u2019s biggest hope for a medal at the Tokyo Olympics \u2013 Joshua Cheptegei . Kamworor won the Kenyan Olympic Trials in Nairobi at the weekend in 27:01.06 seconds. The fiery 28-year-old has only just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-12668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"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>Kamworor checks Cheptegei - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenya have named big wig Geoffrey Kamworor, Rodgers Kwemoi and Weldon Kipkurui as the trio who will battle Uganda\u2019s bigg ...\" \/>\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\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kamworor checks Cheptegei\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenya have named big wig Geoffrey Kamworor, Rodgers Kwemoi and Weldon Kipkurui as the trio who will battle Uganda\u2019s bigg ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-21T15:11:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60d0a42c92aea.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1160\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\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\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kamworor checks Cheptegei\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-21T15:11:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60d0a42c92aea.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kamworor-checks-cheptegei\",\"name\":\"Kamworor checks Cheptegei - 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