{"id":14914,"date":"2021-07-30T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=14914"},"modified":"2021-07-30T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:36:00","slug":"cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals","title":{"rendered":"Cheptegei, Kiplimo earn Uganda first Olympics 2020 medals"},"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>Ugandan athletes Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo paired up Friday to earn the country it&#8217;s first ever double medals in the Olympics men&#8217;s 10000m final.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Selemon Barega crosses the finish line to win ahead of second-placed Uganda&#8217;s Joshua Cheptegei (L) and Uganda&#8217;s Jacob Kiplimo in the men&#8217;s 10000m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on July 30, 2021. 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Ugandan athletes Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo paired up Friday to earn the country it&#8217;s first ever double medals in the Olympics men&#8217;s 10000m final. Ethiopia&#8217;s Selemon Barega crosses the finish line to win ahead of second-placed Uganda&#8217;s Joshua Cheptegei (L) and Uganda&#8217;s Jacob Kiplimo in the men&#8217;s 10000m final during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-14914","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>Cheptegei, Kiplimo earn Uganda first Olympics 2020 medals - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ugandan athletes Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo paired up Friday to earn the country it&#039;s first ever double medals i ...\" \/>\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\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cheptegei, Kiplimo earn Uganda first Olympics 2020 medals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ugandan athletes Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo paired up Friday to earn the country it&#039;s first ever double medals i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals\" \/>\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=\"2021-07-30T15:30:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/07\/img-6104002b83d90.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\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\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Cheptegei, Kiplimo earn Uganda first Olympics 2020 medals\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-30T15:30:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals\"},\"wordCount\":201,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/07\/img-6104002b83d90.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\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/cheptegei-kiplimo-earn-uganda-first-olympics-2020-medals\",\"name\":\"Cheptegei, Kiplimo earn Uganda first Olympics 2020 medals - 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