{"id":178049,"date":"2024-08-07T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-olympics-cherotich-runs-personal-best-time-to-clinch-kenyas-fourth-medal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:00:16","slug":"kenya-olympics-cherotich-runs-personal-best-time-to-clinch-kenyas-fourth-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-olympics-cherotich-runs-personal-best-time-to-clinch-kenyas-fourth-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Olympics &#8211; Cherotich Runs Personal Best Time to Clinch Kenya&#8217;s Fourth Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Former World Under-20 champion faith Cherotich earned Kenya her fourth medal at the Olympic Games in Paris, France, after clinching bronze in the women&#8217;s steeplechase on Tuesday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Cherotich, who also won bronze at last year&#8217;s World Championships in Budapest clocked a personal best time of 8:55.15 to finish third, in a race won by Kenyan turned-Bahraini and reigning world champion Winfred Yavi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Yavi clocked an Olympic Record time of 8:52.76 ahead of defending champion, Uganda&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408070007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Former World Under-20 champion faith Cherotich earned Kenya her fourth medal at the Olympic Games in Paris, France, after clinching bronze in the women&#8217;s steeplechase on Tuesday night. Cherotich, who also won bronze at last year&#8217;s World Championships in Budapest clocked a personal best time of 8:55.15 to finish third, in a race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,39374,10590,15935,4688,430,6097,12337,257,12022,8913,11840,254,6599],"class_list":["post-178049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cherotich","tag-clinch","tag-fourth","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-medal","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-personal","tag-runs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}