{"id":39521,"date":"2019-06-17T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/first-lady-jeannette-kagame-runs-10-km-in-kigali\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T17:51:30","slug":"first-lady-jeannette-kagame-runs-10-km-in-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/first-lady-jeannette-kagame-runs-10-km-in-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Jeannette Kagame runs 10 km in Kigali International Peace Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s Kigali International Peace Marathon which aims at promoting peace through sports was attended by 3899 participants from 55 countries who contested in its three categories namely: Marathon (42.195 km), Half Marathon (21.097) km and Run For Peace (10 km).<\/p>\n

First Lady Jeannette Kagame participated in Run For Peace category where she run 10 km along with the Minister of Sports and Culture, Esp\u00e9rance Nyirasafari; the mayor of Kigali City, Chantal Rwakazina among other dignitaries. <\/p>\n

Philip Kiplimo from Uganda won 42 km run in men category while Jepchirchir Korir from Kenya won in women category. <\/p>\n

Chepchirchir Celestine from Kenya won the Half Marathon in women category while Kiminine Shadrack from Kenya won in men category.<\/p>\n

Kigali International Peace Marathon started in 2005 supported by President Paul Kagame.
\nRwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) president, Fidele Mubiligi Fid\u00e8le said that this year\u2019s marathon was successfully completed though Rwandans didn\u2019t emerge among first runners.
\n\u201c The marathon ended on a high note in general. Half Marathon was won by Rwandans last year but no Rwandan won for this edition except one who emerged the second in women category. It is normal in competitions. This year\u2019s marathon attracted competent runners because awards were increased,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Three Rwandans who performed well in each category of Kigali International Peace Marathon were also awarded. <\/p>\n

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First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame has run 10 km in \u2018Run For Peace\u2019 circuit of Kigali International Peace Marathon held for the 15th time yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-main-featured-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39521"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39521"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}