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China's Mercy Chepkorir was banned from the Kenyan team for the U-20 World Athletics Championships starting Tuesday in Tampere, Finland
Chepkorir, who reportedly participated in the 3000 Women's m, could not The rest of the team was Sunday after an anomaly in her pbadport, which indicated that she was a man.
Athletics Kenya president in charge of youth and development Barnaba Korir described this mistake as unfortunate, indicating that the Finnish embbady returned his pbadport on Friday. "It is unfortunate that our officials did not either catch the mistake in time," said Korir, adding that he personally spoke to Chepkorir, distraught, while the last team of the Kenya team was leaving for Tampere on October 22nd. Sunday at 4:45
Kenya will now be represented in the 3000m by Zena Jemutai, who won in tests with Chepkorir in second place.
The first batch of 19 athletes and offi The boats left the country Saturday morning, followed by the rest (23) on Sunday aboard Turkish Airlines aircraft.
Among them were the triple jumpers of history Gloria Mulei and Philip Musyoka, who will leave a memorable mark at Tampere
This is the first time Kenya has a field team at World U20 Championships, with the duo having reached the qualifying marks for the respective events.
Mulei, 18, made it when she became the youngest Kenyan to break the national record by winning the national title at 12.97 meters in the national trials on June 22 in Kasarani.
Mulei had missed the qualifying mark of 12.85m by only 0.3m. 20 trials 10 days earlier.
Mulei said that she has not finished yet.
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