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L. MathekaJepleting eyes 2023 World Championships slot
Reading Time: 2min | Sun. 14.08.22. | 16:05
She managed bronze at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games.
Commonwealth Games 5000m bronze medalist Selah Jepleting has her eyes set on making team Kenya to next year’s World Athletics Championships set for Budapest.
At a packed Alexander Stadium and up against a loaded field at the 'Club Games',Jepleting clocked a personal best time of 14:48.24 for bronze in a race won by compatriot Beatrice Chebet with Eilish McColgan clocking 14:42.14 for silver.
Selah Jepleting Busienei aliibua mshtuko mkubwa kwa kunyakua ushindi katika mbio za mita 5000 za wanawake kwa dakika 15:05.25. Bingwa wa Afrika Beatrice Chebet alikuwa wa pili naye Margaret Chelimo akamaliza wa tatu. pic.twitter.com/GAo1OyEY6R
— Mkalla Mwambodze (@MwambodzeMkalla) June 25, 2022
Unlike Chebet who barely a fortnight before her Birmingham heroics was also on the track at the World Championships in Oregon where she managed silver, Jepleting did not get a chance to compete in Oregon despite winning the national trials.
"I have been battling with a tendon injury and that slowed me considerably at the Commonwealth Games but I still managed a PB and bronze. I had the same issue during the trials.
Now that the major championship for the year are done, I will take time off to get proper attention on the injury and recover fully before getting back to training.
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This year I missed out on the world championships due to the strict anti-doping rules but this time round I want to be in the team and I will be working towards that," said the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) athlete who in 2015 won the world military games 1500m gold.
Kenya is in category A of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) watch list and as such, any athlete selected to represent the country in any World Athletics competition must comply with certain obligations of its member federation.
The requirements are that athletes must have undergone at least three no notice out-of-competition tests in the 10 months prior to the competition.
Initially, Athletics Kenya has set out to conduct trials for the World Championships and Commonwealth Games separately but later the decision was overturned and only one was held and thus athletes that had not met the anti-doping requirements were allowed to compete.
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