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The four have been recognised for their outstanding performances between January and April by electronics giant LG and Sports Journalists’ Association of Kenya
Kenya Pipeline women’s volleyball star Pamela Adhiambo, World Cross-Country 10km champion Beatrice Chebet and marathoners Rosemary Wanjiru and Kelvin Kiptum have been feted as the SJAK Player Of the Months of January, February, March and April respectively.
In the awards, held belatedly in Nairobi on Wednesday, the four were feted for their outstanding achievements in the aforementioned months in both volleyball and athletics.
Adhiambo also won the MVP award after helping Pipeline to come from behind against 2022 Africa club champions KCB and win the tightly-contested final 3-1, a title they last won in 2017.
Chebet, meanwhile, won a dramatic senior women’s race at the Championships held in Bathurst, Australia, overcoming pre-race favourite Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia who fell and was disqualified metres from the finish line.
Chebet, the 2019 Under-20 World Cross Country champion, won gold in a time of 33:48 minutes as Ethiopia’s Tsigie Gebreselama clinched silver in 33:56 minutes ahead of another Kenyan Agnes Jebet who clocked 34:00 minutes.
The reigning Tokyo Marathon champion Wanjiru claimed the March award after she cruised to a surprise victory in March, chalking up a win that placed her among the world’s top 10 fastest women marathoners.
The Iten-based runner destroyed a strong field in her second World Marathon Major. The 2022 Berlin Marathon runner-up whizzed the tape in 2:16:28 after pulling away from the leading pack in the final kilometres in Tokyo.
London Marathon champion and the second fastest marathoner Kiptum was awarded the April gong following his surprise victory in the English capital.
The 23-year-old had the performance of a lifetime only in his second marathon to floor a star-studded field and win the title in 2:01:25, the second fastest marathon and just 17 seconds shy of beating compatriot Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon world record time of 02:01:09 set at the 2022 Berlin Marathon.
With the recognition, the winners walked home with personalised trophies and 55-inch LG NanoCell TV each.
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