Eliud Kipchoge, who has dominated working for almost 20 years, successful numerous awards, medals and accolades, is entering into a training and mentorship position with the U20 World Athletics Athlete Refugee Workforce (ART). In keeping with World Athletics (WA), Kipchoge will take a mentorship and assistant position, utilizing his expertise within the sport to teach and encourage upcoming refugee athletes.
The World Athletics Athlete Refugee Workforce is comprised of athletes who’ve fled violence, battle and injustice of their residence nation. The workforce was based in 2016 and has since developed into the world’s solely year-round elite refugee workforce program. The Refugee Olympic Workforce made its first aggressive look on the 2016 Olympic Video games and has competed at most WA occasions since then.
Kipchoge and the workforce’s head coach, Janeth Jepkosgei, former world 800m champion, will mentor the U20 workforce by way of to the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, subsequent August.
The 2-time Olympic champion’s mentorship will start in January, per WA: “Kipchoge will inspire the workforce members by sharing his information and self-discipline within the sport whereas encouraging them to pursue their training and skim books, which is certainly one of his passions,” mentioned the press launch.
Notice that Kipchoge’s new position doesn’t imply is he stopping his working profession anytime quickly. The 39-year-old nonetheless has aspirations to win each Abbott World Marathon Main (he’s lacking solely New York and Boston) and doubtlessly a 3rd Olympic marathon title subsequent yr in Paris.
Having Kipchoge as a coach is an unbelievable alternative for any runner. He has 11 Abbott World Marathon Main victories to his identify and 4 Olympic medals to go together with it. We’re assured he is aware of a factor or two about working, and might present some inspiration together with his Kelly Clarkson pump-up music.
