{"id":16,"date":"2012-09-05T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/kiprotich-wins-gold-for-uganda-after-40years\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:09:56","slug":"kiprotich-wins-gold-for-uganda-after-40years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/kiprotich-wins-gold-for-uganda-after-40years\/","title":{"rendered":"KIPROTICH wins GOLD for Uganda after 40years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/09\/97aa066dcc42404e7602768333af5659.jpg?resize=672%2C379\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/09\/KIPROTICH-wins%20goldmedal%20at%20olypics-Roseline.jpg?resize=672%2C379\" alt=\"Kiprotich Gold medal\" width=\"672\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/09\/KIPROTICH-wins%20goldmedal%20at%20olypics-Roseline.jpg?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/09\/KIPROTICH-wins%20goldmedal%20at%20olypics-Roseline.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><br \/>Uganda is celebrating after Kiprotich, 23, managed to save the country by winning a gold medal during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics 2012 Kiprotich was born in Kapchorwa in 1989. He discovered his talent way back in primary school. Kiprotich is a prison warden at Uganda prisons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The smile broke out across Stephen Kiprotich&#8217;s face in the final few metres as the sacrifices he has made for his athletics career came to rich fruition in London. The Kenyans thought they had it won but it was not to be. Kiprotich crossed the line with the flag of Uganda over his shoulders. He ran the race of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>Stephen Kiprotich, 23, ran 23 miles with 33 turns. He ran 4:53 per mile. He finished the 23 miles in two hours, eight minutes and one second \u2013 26 seconds ahead of silver medalist Abel Kirui, the defending world champion from Kenya who clocked 2:08:27.<br \/>Talking about his win, Kiprotich said, \u201cI could not believe when I was winning. When I cross the line, I believe it.\u201dKiprotich\u2019s Manager, Jos Hermens said of his win, \u201cAll of a sudden he just took off. I honestly didn\u2019t know he had that kind of power.\u201d Over joyed, Kiprotich kissed the Uganda flag and knelt down and prayed.Kiprotich trains in Kenya Emmanuel Mutai who came 17th. \u201cI saw him coming like a cheetah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was very hard to control this kind of move,\u201d Kirui said. At the 25-mile mark, Kiprotich\u2019s lead was 20 seconds over Kirui, and 22 over Kipsang. He kept on pushing, looking over his shoulder, dumping an occasional cup of water over his head. Hermens, who also manages Kirui, couldn\u2019t get over how the race had turned out, and the strength Kiprotich had summoned. Someone asked Stephen Kiprotich about being overlooked by almost everybody. \u201cIt means a lot to be unknown. Now I am known. I\u2019m happy,\u201d he said. posted Sandra birungi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda is celebrating after Kiprotich, 23, managed to save the country by winning a gold medal during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics 2012 Kiprotich was born in Kapchorwa in 1989. He discovered his talent way back in primary school. Kiprotich is a prison warden at Uganda prisons. &#8220;The smile broke out across Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}