By AYUMBA AYODIMore by this AuthorOlympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge and two-time World marathon champion Edna Kiplagat will lead Kenya’s marathon assault at the London World Championships due August 4 to 13 at the Olympic Stadium. Kipchoge will partner with the 2012 Olympic marathon silver medallist Wilson Kipsang, who won the Tokyo Marathon in February, and the new London Marathon champion Daniel Wanjiru as they try to recapture the men’s title which Abel Kirui last won for Kenya in 2011. Reigning Boston Marathon champion Geoffrey Kirui and the 2016 Mumbai Marathon champion Gedion Kipketer, who finished second in the Tokyo Marathon, have been picked as reserves in the men’s team. Kiplagat, whose dream for a hat-trick has been kept alive, will partner with the new world women’s marathon record holder Mary Keitany and Chicago Marathon champion Florence Kiplagat, who will be representing Kenya for the first time over the distance at a championship race. The 30-year-old bounced back to win the Tokyo Marathon in a course record breaking time of 2:03:58.

Source: Daily Nation May 13, 2017 16:07 UTC