{"id":203068,"date":"2025-07-23T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-chengetich-overcomes-stronger-opposition-to-seal-ticket-to-world-champs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:27:08","slug":"kenya-chengetich-overcomes-stronger-opposition-to-seal-ticket-to-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-chengetich-overcomes-stronger-opposition-to-seal-ticket-to-world-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Chengetich Overcomes Stronger Opposition to Seal Ticket to World Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, July 22, 2025 &#8211; African Games champion Janeth Chepngetich cruised to victory in the women&#8217;s 10,000m as the national trials for the World Championships got off to a flier at the Ulinzi Sports Complex on Tuesday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Chepngetich clocked 30:27.0 to cross the finish line first ahead of double world record holder Agnes Ngetich who timed 30:27.4 in second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet finished third in 30:27.5 in what was a closely contested race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Speaking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507220461.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, Kenya, July 22, 2025 &#8211; African Games champion Janeth Chepngetich cruised to victory in the women&#8217;s 10,000m as the national trials for the World Championships got off to a flier at the Ulinzi Sports Complex on Tuesday morning. Chepngetich clocked 30:27.0 to cross the finish line first ahead of double world record holder Agnes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,11203,51928,4688,430,257,5675,24233,5120,254,7288,8346,5093],"class_list":["post-203068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champs","tag-chengetich","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-overcomes","tag-seal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronger","tag-ticket","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/203068","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=203068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}