Barack Obama yashimiye Eliud Kipchoge washyizeho agahigo kadasanzwe mu gusiganwa ku maguru
Barack Obama wahoze ari Perezida wa Leta zunze Ubumwe za Amerika, yashimiye abanya-Kenya; Eliud Kipchoge na Brigid Kosgei bitwaye neza mu mpera mu minsi ishize , bagashyiraho uduhigo dushya mu gusiganwa ku maguru (ibirometero 42).
Abinyujije ku rubuga rwa Twitter, Barack Obama yashimiye aba banya-Kenya, avuga ko berekanye ko nta kidakorwa na buri wese.
“Ejo hashize, Eliud Kipchoge usiganwa muri Marathon yabaye umuntu wa mbere ubikoze mu gihe kitageze ku masaha abiri. Uyu munsi muri Chicago, Brigid Kosgei yashyizeho umuhigo mushya ku Isi mu cyiciro cy’abagore. Uretse kuba ibyo bagezeho bidasanzwe, ni ingero nziza zerekana ubushobozi bw’umuntu ku byo yiyemeje.”
” Ubwo nabonaga uburyo Brigid yihuta ubwo yasiganwaga mu gice cya mbere, nari mbizi ko agiye guca aka gahigo.”
Eliud Kipchoge w’imyaka 34, yabaye umuntu wa mbere wasiganwe ku maguru ibirometero 42 akoresheje ibihe bitageze ku masaha abiri. Kipchoge yasoje isiganwa rya Inoes Challenge akoresheje isaha imwe, iminota 59 n’amasegonda 40, ku wa Gatandatu.
Undi munya-Kenya, Brigid Kosgei w’imyaka 25, yitwaye neza muri Marathon ya Chigaco, ayegukana akoresheje amasaha abiri, iminota 14 n’amasegonda ane.
Ni umuhigo mushya yashyizeho mu cyiciro cy’abagore, aho yakuyeho agahigo ko ku rwego rw’Isi kari gafitwe n’Umwongereza Paula Radcliffe wari amaze imyaka 16 ashyizeho aka gahigo ubwo yakoreshaga amasaha abiri, iminota 15 n’amasegonda 25 muri Marathon ya Londres mu 2003.
Uyu munyakenya Eliud Kipchoge yashimiwe n’abantu batandukanye ku Isi barimo na Perezida wa Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta wavuze ko yahesheje ishema igihugu cye.