[Former Africa 10,000m champion Kenneth Kipkemoi. Photo/Sporting Heroes]
Former Africa 10,000m champion Kenneth Kipkemoi, is targeting a course record at the 12th edition of the Weir Venloop in Netherlands this month.
The race set for March 26 has attracted athletes with faster time performance who are in, for a course record if their personal best times are anything to go by.
The current course record of 59.44 minutes was set by Geoffrey Yegon last year.
Nicholas Korir ranked third in the elite line up has also run a sub 60 minutes and he will be in for a course record too together with Albert Kangogo who finished third last year at the Copenhagen half marathon with 59.29.
Kipkemoi withdrew from Team Kenya for the Africa championships last year to try his luck for the Rio Olympics but failed to sparkle at the trials.
He has a personal best time of 59.01 he set at the 2014 Valencia half marathon.
Kipkemoi said he was ready to attack the course record.
“I have trained well and my focus on the race is to run very well.I am targeting a course record,”Kipkemoi who trains at Kaptagat said.
“I am only some few seconds shy away from the course record considering my personal best time,” he added.
Kipkemoi first represented Kenya at the 2011 All Africa Games getting a silver medal behind Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia before winning the Africa 10,000m title.
He represented Kenya at the 2013 IAAF world championships in Moscow but failed to shine.
“This year I am also preparing g for the world championshis in London. I missed Olympics but all these races area aimed at building up for August championships,”H he said.