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Kenya wins Kids’ Athletics Day Member Federation Relay Around the World Challenge 
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Kenya wins Kids’ Athletics Day Member Federation Relay Around the World Challenge 

Athletics Kenya has been selected as the winning Member Federation of the Kids’ Athletics Day challenge after contributing almost a quarter of the participants in the ‘Relay Around the World’. Around the globe, more than 600,000 children across all six continental areas participated in over 1200 activations to promote Kids’ Athletics Day – a global day dedicated to celebrating children and young people being active by participating in athletics.  This year’s theme, Relay Around the World, was inspired by the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China, taking place this weekend. The challenge, which ran from 6 April to Kids’ Athletics Day on 7 May, was the biggest, most inclusive Kids’ Athletics participation activity yet – with a target of 500,000 kids participating across the w...
Relay Around the World Challenge celebrated around the globe on Kids’ Athletics Day
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Relay Around the World Challenge celebrated around the globe on Kids’ Athletics Day

World Athletics and its Member Federations, athletics clubs, schools and people across the globe have celebrated Kids’ Athletics Day on Wednesday (7 May) with the Relay Around the World Challenge. In Tokyo, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Mitsugi Ogata, President of both the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) and the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 (WCH Tokyo 25), came together to reaffirm their commitment to making this year’s championships a landmark event that will inspire and empower children around the world.  In line with the mission of WCH Tokyo 25 and the values promoted by World Athletics’ Kids’ Athletics programme, which are respect, determination, friendship and pride, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, WCH Tok...
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