{"id":243349,"date":"2026-05-14T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/africa-gold-for-kenya-at-africa-championships-as-medal-harvest-begins\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:30:22","slug":"africa-gold-for-kenya-at-africa-championships-as-medal-harvest-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/africa-gold-for-kenya-at-africa-championships-as-medal-harvest-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Gold for Kenya At Africa Championships As Medal Harvest Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 13, 2026 – Kenya collected its first medals at the African Championships in Accra, Ghana courtesy of Kelvin Chesang’ and Silas Senchura.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chesang clocked 28:30.44 to win the men’s 10,000m at the University of Ghana Stadium on Wednesday night, ahead of Ethiopia’s Hagos Eyo Gared, who took silver after finishing second in 28:30.57.<\/p>\n

Senchura bagged bronze after coming in third at 28:32.53.<\/p>\n

There was more joy for Kenya after 4x400m mixed relay team bagged bronze after finishing third in 3:17.94.<\/p>\n

Nigeria triumphed after stopping the clock at 3:16.44, ahead of Botswana who took silver after finishing second in 3:17.88.<\/p>\n

More to follow…<\/em><\/p>\n

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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 13, 2026 – Kenya collected its first medals at the African Championships in Accra, Ghana courtesy of Kelvin Chesang’ and Silas Senchura. Chesang clocked 28:30.44 to win the men’s 10,000m at the University of Ghana Stadium on Wednesday night, ahead of Ethiopia’s Hagos Eyo Gared, who took silver after finishing second in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[151,72,155,157,160,153,179,88,152,161,156,154,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-243349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-east-africa","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-kenya","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sport","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}