Ndungu storms to victory in course record

HE has never represented his country but Geoffrey Ndungu underscored the immense wealth of talent that remains untapped in Kenya when he reduced the course record to 2:08:33 to win yesterday’s National Lottery Dublin Marathon.

The 27-year-old is one of a number of Kenyan athletes who have been ‘adopted’ in a training camp in Germany as part of an exchange programme. Indeed Fingal County Council and Balbriggan Town Council combined to pay the cost of bringing him and two other members of the group to Dublin.

His pedigree – a 2:11:30 marathon in St Wendel last year – tucked him away in a field that included another 13 of his fellow countrymen headed by the defending champion, Moses Kibet, who set the previous course record at 2:08:58 last year.