Kipyegon, and Moraa pocket Sh4m and Sh2m respectively after Budapest heroics
Faith Kipyegon and Mary Moraa were today awarded Sh4 million and Sh2 million respectively after bagging gold in their respective specialities in the recently concluded World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. https://bit.ly/45QPEHX
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00:00 team won us three gold medals, three silver medals,
00:04 and four bronze medals.
00:05 And we reward them with a total of 21,600,000 shillings.
00:13 We have Faith Kipirgon, who won two gold medals,
00:18 receives four million Kenya shillings.
00:20 Mary Morau receives two million Kenya shillings.
00:24 Emmanuel Wanyoni, Beatrice Chipkoitch, Daniel Simiyu,
00:29 for silver medal, they win 1.5 million Kenya shillings each.
00:34 Faith Cherotich, Beatrice Chibet, Jacob Krob,
00:39 Abraham Kibiward receive one million Kenya shillings each
00:44 for their bronze medals.
00:46 All the finalists receive 50,000 Kenya shillings each.
00:52 All team officials, head of delegation,
00:56 you should also join this team for a photograph with His
00:59 Excellency the President.
01:01 Please join here because you also have your cash reward.
01:04 All totaling 21,600,000 Kenya shillings.
01:11 And Your Excellency, let me, in a very special way,
01:15 congratulate our two incredible girls, Faith Kipirgon
01:20 and the Kisii Express, Mary Morau.
01:24 And Your Excellency, in a very special way also,
01:27 recognize the young Faith Cherotich,
01:30 the youngest member of this team.
01:33 Faith, where are you?
01:34 Faith Cherotich.
01:36 Faith is not here.
01:37 OK.
01:37 [SIDE CONVERSATION]
01:41 [APPLAUSE]
02:06 [SIDE CONVERSATION]
02:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:11 The 10 athletes can wait to receive the check very, very
02:18 quickly.
02:18 OK.
02:31 Very good.
02:34 Very good.
02:35 [APPLAUSE]
02:39 [SIDE CONVERSATION]
02:42 Mary Morau, Faith, you can take a special photo
02:58 with His Excellency the President.
03:00 These are our golden girls.
03:01 Chairman, you can just step down so that our golden girls can
03:05 have their moment with His Excellency the President.
03:08 Let us give a round of applause to these amazing ladies.
03:11 [APPLAUSE]
03:15 And Your Excellency, let me also announce here,
03:21 now that we have a very loaded message for the youth,
03:24 that we are also set to host the Youth Connect Africa
03:29 Summit in December, where we'll be advancing further
03:33 the agenda of young people in this country.
03:36 [AUDIO OUT]
03:40 [BLANK_AUDIO]