Three Kenyans nominated for Out of Stadium award
Ruth Chepngetich, Agnes Jebet Ngetich, and Benson Kipruto are the three Kenyan athletes nominated for the Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year Award, which the winner be unveiled in Monaco, France in December.
Chepngetich, who gained this yr’s Chicago marathon and set a brand new world document of two hours 9 minutes race in lower than two hours and ten minutes.
Agnes Jebet Ngetich is without doubt one of the 5 ladies vying for gong after setting world data for the 5km and 10 km races and the setting the quickest half marathon time.
The two Kenyan ladies will compete for the prize towards Ethiopia’s Tigist Ketema, who gained this yr’s Berlin Marathon; Sutume Asefa Kebede, who gained the Tokyo Marathon in 2024; and Sifan Hassan, of the Netherlands, who gained the Olympic marathon gold with an Olympic document and took residence bronze within the 5,000m on the Paris Olympics.
Benson Kipruto is the one Kenyan man within the shortlist after an excellent yr, successful the Tokyo marathon and bagging a bronze medal within the Marathon on the Olympic Games.
World cross-country champion Jacob Kiplimo from Uganda, Olympic marathon champion Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia, Olympic half-marathon champion Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, and Ecuadorian Brian Daniel Pintado, who gained gold within the 20-kilometer race stroll, are competing for the award with Kipruto.
Voting is underway throughout all of the World Athletics Socials and is ready to be closed on the third of subsequent month.
