Monday, January 31, 2011

Menjo and Fernández excel in San Sebastián XC while Cáceres eyes indoor success

IAAF reports
On a packed Spanish athletics weekend Kenya’s Josephat Kiprono Menjo captured a brilliant win at the ‘Cross Internacional de San Sebastián’ held Sunday (30) while Spain’s reigning European 1500m champion Nuria Fernández bagged the win in the women’s section ahead of Kenya’s Olympic 3000m Steeplechase silver medallist Eunice Jepkorir.

Menjo, who broke the revered 27-minute barrier in the 10,000m event for the first time last summer setting the year’s world best of 26:56.74 in a near solo run in Turku, kicked off yesterday’s 10,000m race very cautiously. By the 4000m point which was crossed in a slow 13:00 time the 31-year-old ace still ran in the company of seven athletes in the guise of his fellow Kenyans Titus Mbishei and Jacob Chesari, Ukraine’s cuurent European champion Sergiy Lebid, Britain’s Scott Overall and the Spanish trio of Ricardo Serrano, Iván Fernández and the world indoor 3000m silver medallist Sergio Sánchez.

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