He is best known for winning the silver medal in the short race at the 2006 World Cross Country Championships. He is managed by James Templeton and coached by Colm O'Connell. Songok is from Kaptel village, as is Bernard Lagat, another famous athlete. Olympic Sport: Track and field ...
The current World 800m record holder David Rudisha is the only Kenyan athlete to have won the award in 2010. This year, Chpkoech won the World steeplechase record by eight seconds, backed up by the third-quickest mark of all time. She was also the wiinner of seven out of eight steeple...
As a keen junior athlete, I remember being fascinated by the story of Finnish runner Annemari Sandell, who went to train in Kenya for six weeks in the early 1990s and returned to win the World Cross-Country Championships. What had happened to her out there, I wondered. Finally, years ...
NAIROBI, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Veteran Kenyan athlete and former World 800m champion Janeth Jepkosgei has returned to competition for the first time in four years, eyeing a slot in the Kenya team to the Africa Games in Rabat, Morocco from August 23 to September 3. Jepkosgei, 35, last co...
"It takes a lot of fuel to train to be a world class athlete. Just not going to happen if you are missing meals." The talented runner needs support to make running their profession. If their parents can't help, who do they turn too? In most cases there is no one else. They ...
The current World 800m record holder David Rudisha is the only Kenyan athlete to have won the award in 2010. This year, Chpkoech won the World steeplechase record by eight seconds, backed up by the third-quickest mark of all time. She was also the wiinner of seven out of eight steeple...
Yobes Ondieki is a Kenyan distance runner who surprised observers in 1993 by setting a world record in the 10,000 metres, an event he had not run on a track in 10 years. At the time, his performance was considered by some as the best distance race ever r
"The first two athletes to cross the line during the trials will automatically be selected. The third athlete will be determined by a panel of selectors," he added.■
The Kenyan, who made his name when he won the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, had risen to be a force over the ultimate distance, defending his crown at the 2011 worlds in Daegu before winning silver at the London 2012 Olympics. ...
NAIROBI, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich, who trains near Eldoret, will become the first Olympic champion to compete at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Oct. 21. The Kenya-based athlete, who trains in Kattegat together with current Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge under...