NAIROBI (Reuters) - World champion Geoffrey Kamworor won the Kenyan Cross Country trials on Saturday but pulled out of the team for next month's African Cross Country Championships in Cameroon, saying the event did not fit in with his preparations for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.
World silver medallist Bedan Karoki, who finished behind Kamworor, and third-placed African champion Leonard Barsoton also said they would not take part in the continental event in Yaounde on March 12.
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