Kenyan chicken farmer wins on StanChart S’pore Marathon debut


Kenya’s Ezekiel Omullo won the men's full-marathon category during the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on Dec 4. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): At the height of the pandemic, Ezekiel Omullo was hard at work at his chicken farm in Eldoret, a town in western Kenya just so he could put food on the table for his family of four.

Two years later, on a cold, wet Sunday morning at the 2022 Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM), Omullo was on his knees at the finish line at The Float @ Marina Bay, unable to believe that he had won the men’s race by the slimmest of margins.

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