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Kenya Breaks Women’s 10,000m Medal Jinx in Deaflympics

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Caxias Do Sul — Kenya opened its account at the 24th Summer Deaflympics with two medals, wining silver and bronze in the women’s 10,000m final.

Serah Wangari scooped silver while Grancy Kandagor bagged bronze to enable Kenya not only open its medal account at the delayed 2021 Deaf Games, but also win the first ever medal in the women’s 10,000m at the event.

The event which was the first final of the event, attached nine athletes led by three Kenyans who bossed the race for the better part until halfway when one dropped after picking a knee injury after falling down.

A confident Wangari who was favourite to win the race after the best dropped, was heading for victory but with two laps to go, she was out of gas to force her opponent from Mexico to overtake her and go all the way to win the race.

“I was getting abit exhausted but I tried my best, I worked hard because I knew I could make it, so I kept on going because my objective was to get a medal and I wanted to make sure that when I go back home I have something to show, so I feel that I have done well though its not a performance I was anticipating,” Wangari told media after the race.

The weather was very cold with degree Celsius falling down to 10, something that Wangari claimed affected her strategy to hunt down the gold.

“The weather was very cold that make my knees to feel weak, but I decided that I will focus on my target that was to get gold, it was my first time to run on such weather and I can say I did my best,” Wangari added.