NAIROBI Cheap Budda Baker Jersey , Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Six Kenyans, four men and two women, will be on mark to try and conquer the Hengshui International Marathon in China on Saturday.
With organisers keen to record fast times, the four men running under the Kenyan flag - Bernard Kiprotich Too, Michael Njenga Kunyuga Cheap Haason Reddick Jersey , Alfonce Kibiwot Kigen and Abraham Akopesha - have the perfect resume to clock under two hours and 10 minutes.
"Looking at top athletes like Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge and what he did in Berlin is what makes me want to set my own record. I hope I can get less than two hours and ten minutes timing in Hengshui if the weather permits, but winning is the most important thing," said Too on Thursday in Nairobi.
A total of eight runners in the men's elite list have recorded a fast time of 2:10:51 and below, which promises to offer fireworks in quest for fast time.
Kenya's Too is the fastest on paper with 2:09:47, which he recorded in March on his way to win at the Brescia Marathon in Italy. It will be his first time running Cheap Tyrann Mathieu Jersey , the 25-year old will be running in China.
Kenya's Michael Njenga Kunyuga, 30, also had a marathon victory to his name in 2017 as he registered a convincing 2:10:43 win in Italian town of Padua five months ago.
Throw in Bonsa Dida of Ethiopia who was third at the Mumbai Marathon in January and clocked 2:10:16 to win the Mardrid Marathon title in April and the threat to Markos Geneti's course record of 2:07:38 set in 2014 becomes real.
The field also includes Kenya's Alfonce Kibiwot Kigen (2:10:24) fourth in Vienna, and Abraham Akopesha, who was in position 11 in Paris with 2:10:12 on his marathon debut.
Hicham Laqouahi of Morocco will be targeting his first marathon title on Saturday after clocking 2:10:24 to finish second in Marrakech earlier this year.
The organisers have also assembled a deep field in the women's race but it appears as though the course record of 2:25:43 set by Kenya's Agnes Kiprop in 2015 may not be challenged this year.
With a personal best time of 2:27:17 from 2011 Cheap John Brown Jersey , Kenya's Peninah Arusei leads the cast. The 38-year-old has a better record at the half marathon, having earned a bronze medal at the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and finished fifth in the same competition two years earlier.
Arusei's best marathon performance in recent three years was a second-place finish in Warsaw last year with a 2:29:21 clocking.
She competed in the Yellow River Estuary International Marathon in Dongying this year and finished fifth in 2:33:10.
Tigist Memuye and Tizita Terecha of Ethiopia plus Nancy Jebet of Kenya are the other stars to look out for.
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TOKYO, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on Monday announced her intention to launch her own national political party Cheap Carson Palmer Jersey , according to local media reports.
Koike said in a press briefing on the matter that she will be the leader of a new political party at the national level and that the party will be called "Kibou No To," which means Party of Hope in English.
Koike's announcement comes on the heels of a number of high profile defections from both the ruling and opposition camps by party lawmakers to join a new party launched by her close ally, lower house independent lawmaker Masaru Wakasa.
"Mr. Wakasa, a former main opposition Democratic Party member, Mr. Goshi Hosono and others have been having various discussions up to now Cheap Patrick Peterson Jersey , but we have done a reset, and I will lead the party myself and be directly involved," Koike was quoted as saying.
Koike said she will simultaneously carry out her duties as both governor and party head and said she wants to be involved in national politics, in part, so she can carry out changes in the capital.
An "all-Japan" approach would be the foundation of the party's ethos Cheap Larry Fitzgerald Jersey , Koike said, with the focus on support for families raising children. She added that she plans to field candidates nationwide in the expected general election.
Koike made the surprise announcement before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe started his meeting with his party executives earlier Monday and officially announced his contentious plans to dissolve the lower house of parliament and call a snap election.
The Tokyo governor's news following Koike's Tomin First no Kai's (Tokyoites First party) sweeping victory in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly race in July, seeing off challenges from rival parties including the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which Abe is also the president of.
The Tokyo metropolitan assembly race is widely regarded as a barometer for the future direction of national politics and triggered rumors that Koike was eyeing a return to national politics after her landslide win, as has proved to be the case Cheap Chandler Jones Jersey , political watchers noted.
The result of the metropolitan assembly race triggered the beginning of an exodus of lawmakers from the opposition Democratic Party, which has been a blow to its new leader Seiji Maehara, who is fighting to keep the party united and his lawmakers defecting.
But in further blow to Abe on Monday, a senior vice Cabinet Office minister in his government announced he would be leaving the ruling LDP.
Mineyuki Fukuda, 53 Cheap David Johnson Jersey , a third term lower house lawmaker, told a press briefing on the matter that he wants to form a new party