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NAIROBI, Kenya, March 20, 2026 – Kenyan sprinter Mercy Oketch hopes to make an indelible mark at the ongoing World Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pormoze, Poland.<\/em><\/p>\n The 23-year-old, who is making her bow in the competition, is hoping to return home all smiles courtesy of a good outing.<\/p>\n “I am still hoping for the best. It is my first time in this kind of competition and I am still learning…learning to get more experience,” Oketch said.<\/p>\n The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) athlete strolled into the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> NAIROBI, Kenya, March 20, 2026 – Kenyan sprinter Mercy Oketch hopes to make an indelible mark at the ongoing World Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pormoze, Poland. The 23-year-old, who is making her bow in the competition, is hoping to return home all smiles courtesy of a good outing. “I am still hoping for the best. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":227650,"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":[258,256,7540,10002,13991,430,4524,6775,257,254,30176,24863,5093],"class_list":["post-227649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-championships","tag-hopes","tag-indoor","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sprinter","tag-superstar","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\/227649","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=227649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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