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Kipsang Goes for $500K WMM Prize in NYCPublished by
Kipsang Edges Closer to Huge Jackpot PrizePublished by The Standard on October 24, 2014 Reigning London Marathon champion Wilson Kipsang (left) must win next week’s TCS New York City Marathon to get a share of Sh87 million World Marathon Majors series jackpot. Kipsang, who is placed third in the WMM standings with 51 points, needs to be at his best to collect 25 points and crown the huge prize purse in the Big Apple. World marathon record holder Dennis Kimetto (75 points) and Tsegaye Kebede (55 points) top the 2013/2014 male WMM leaderboard. Kipsang, who will make his debut in the New York City Marathon, will certainly find no difficulty competing in the hilly New York course for he was born and bred in the rocky Muskut village in Kerio Valley. He trains alongside Kimetto and Geoffrey Mutai, a two-time winner at the New York City Marathon, at Kapng’etuny Athletics Club, which is the training base for marathon trailblazers. The name Kapng’etuny incidentally means “a lions’ den” in Kalenjin language, and has no doubt churned out three world’s fastest marathoners - Dennis Kimetto (2:02.57), Geoffrey Mutai (2:03.02) and Wilson Kipsang (2:03.23). Read the full article at: www.standardmedia.co.ke
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