{"id":7882,"date":"2016-01-16T03:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2016-01-16T03:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:30:30","slug":"gor-mahia-named-sports-team-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-named-sports-team-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia named sports team of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 757px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/sports-team-of-year-15b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"426\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ON hand to receieve the award were Ronald Ngala, Michael Olunga, Jerim Onyango and Musa Mohamed <br \/>Image courtesy of safaricom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia had a memorable season in 2015 in which they won the league unbeaten, won two other trophies a, reached the final of the CECAFA club\u00a0 and the semi-finals of the GoTV shield. For that they were rewarded by being named the Kenya sports team of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the second time that a KPL team has won this award. Ulinzi stars won in 2010. Gor Mahia were nominated in 2013 and finished second to the Kenya Rugby sevens team.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Olunga was\u00a0 nominated for the sports person of the year award. But he did not make it into the top three. He was probably let down by the fact that despite his goal-scoring exploits, Harambee stars were dismal in 2015. Also this award is almost always dominated by the track and field athletes. <\/p>\n<h2>Results<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sports Personality of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Julius Yego (Athletics-javelin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sportsman of the Year:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Julius Yego (Athletics), 2.Asbel Kiprop (Athletics), 3.Geoffrey Kamworor (Athletics)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sportswoman of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Hyvin Kiyeng (Athletics), 2. Mercy Moim (Volleyball), 3. Florence Kiplagat (Athletics)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Most Promising-Woman:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Agnes Jebet (Athletics), 2. Cellphine Chespol (Athletics), 3. Rebecca Kamau (swimming)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Most Promising-Man:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Kumari Taki (Athletics), 2. Vincent Kipyegon (Athletics), 3. Jeremy Wahome (Motorsport)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sportswoman of the Year (Disability):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Cecilia Wangechi (Athletics), Hellen Wawira (Powerlifting), Susan Gatwiri (Athletics), Joyline Jemutai (Athletics)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sportsman of the Year (Disability):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1.Onesmus Mutinda (Special Olympics), 2. Alex Komen (Athletics), David Korir (Athletics)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Team of the Year-Men:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Gor Mahia (Soccer), 2. National Hockey team (Hockey), 3. Kenya Simba 15s (Rugby)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Team of the Year-Women:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1.Malkia strikers (Volleyball), 2. Malkia Strikers- All Africa Games Team(Volleyball), 3. Telkom Orange (Hockey)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Evergreen Category:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ezekiel Kemboi (Athletics)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Coach of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>David Lung\u2019aho (Volleyball)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Comeback of the Year:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lawrence Buyachi (Rugby)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sports Federation of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1.The Kenya Volleyball Federation, 2. Kenya Rowing and Canoeing, 3. Boxing Association<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>School Team of the Year-Girls:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Sinyolo Girls (Hockey), 2. AIC Kosirai (Volleyball), Trans Nzoia Mixed(Hockey)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>School Team of the Year-Boys:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1. Laiser Hill Academy (Rugby), 2. Narok Boys (Hockey), 3. St Peters Mumias Chesirikwa (handball)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>School Coach of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kelvin Lugalia (St Anthony Boys)-hockey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>School Most Outstanding Performance-Boys:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>David Parisitao (Ngoleni Secondary School (Javelin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>School Most Outstanding Performance-Girls:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Judy Nkatha<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>(Shadrack Kimalel) Tennis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Community Hero:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Edna Rotich<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Hall of Fame:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Brian Hawkins (Shooting), John Mucheru (Golf), Violet Baraza (Volleyball)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-named-sports-team-of-the-year\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia had a memorable season in 2015 in which they won the league unbeaten, won two other trophies a,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-michael-olunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7887,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}