2024 Athletics evaluate:Kenyans carried out exceptionally properly

The yr that’s just some days means from its conclusion was an exceptional season  for Kenyan athletes in main worldwide championships regardless of equally having its fair proportion of challenges as properly.

The first cease for Kenyans in 2024 was the World Athletics Indoor championships in Glasgow,Scotland from 1st to third March ,Beatrice Chepkoech being the one medalist bagging bronze within the 3,000m.

Ferdinand Omanyala missed within the podium in 60m ending 4th, comparable consequence replicated within the 4x400m males relay staff Kenya composed of Zablon Ekwam,Boniface Mweresa,Kevin Tauta and Wiseman Were.

Vivian Chebet additionally got here shut in 800m girls ending 4th.

On thirtieth March Beatrice Chebet led Kenyans to a clear podium end in 10KM race on the forty fifth World Cross Country championships in Belgrade Serbia.

Chebet additionally retained her 2023 international title.

Another Kenyan Samuel Kibathi gained gold medal within the 8km u 20 race whereas his compatriot Mathew Kipruto took dwelling bronze as Benson Kiplangat bagged bronze in 10km senior males occasion.

Reynold Cheruiyot,Virginia Nyambura,Daniel Munguti and Purity Chepkirui added one other gold within the blended cross nation relay.

fifth Kip Kip Keino Classic

Kenya additionally staged the fifth Kip Keino Classic continental tour on the Nyayo Stadium on twentieth April with Abraham Kibiwot reclaiming the three,000 msc title as dwelling athletes additionally dominated the 800m, Mary Moraa and Emmanuel Wanyonyi profitable gold medals for ladies and men whereas Mary Ekiru and Reynold Cheruiyot gained the 1500m titles.

World Relays

Early May throughout the World Athletics Relays in Bahamas Kenya carried out poorly with the boys’s 4x100m males’s staff anchored by Africa’s quickest man in 100m Ferdinand Omanyala ending final in warmth 4.

The 4x400m staff additionally did not make it to the ultimate ending fifth in warmth 1 of spherical 1 whereas the ladies counterparts completed final in warmth 3 of spherical 1.

It was an terrible outing because the 4x400m blended relay staff may solely handle a final place in warmth 3 of spherical one.

At the 23 Africa Senior Athletics Championships between twenty first and twenty sixth June in Cameroon, Kenya completed 2nd within the medal desk amassing 19 medals,5 golds,7 silvers and seven bronze medals behind eventual winners South Africa.

Paris Olympics 

Kenya posted good outcomes on the thirty third Olympic video games in Paris,France ending seventeenth general and 1st in Africa with a complete of 11 medals: 4 gold,2 silver and 5 bronze medals all of which have been from athletics.

Beatrice Chebet was the athlete of the championships as she bagged two gold medals in 5,000m and 10,000m turning into the first Kenyan to realize the feat.

Other gold medals have been from Faith Kipyegon in 1,500m and Emmanuel Wanyonyi in 800 each guaranteeing Kenya retained the titles from the Tokyo 2020 version with the latter additionally persevering with Kenyans dominance over the race with a fifth gold in a row since 2008.

USA as soon as extra stamped authority in athletics accumulating 34 medals,with 14 gold,11 silver and 9 bronze medals.

World Athletics Under 20 Championships

The final monitor and area  championships of the yr was the world athletics underneath 20 championships in Lima,Peru Kenya ending in fifth place with 3 gold,3 silver and a bronze.

Andrew Kiptoo Alamisi gained gold in 5,000m, with Edmund Serem and Sarah Moraa including a gold every in 3,000ms and 800m respectively.

Kenyans did exceptionally properly in street operating throughout completely different cities within the World in 2024.

Road Running

In street operating Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich lowered the ladies’s world 10km report setting a brand new report of 28:46 in Valencia in January, enhancing Ethiopia Yalemzerf Yehualaw’s 2022 report by 28 seconds turning into the primary girl to run 10km in underneath 29 minutes.

She additionally set a brand new World report within the 5km race in the identical race of Valencia clocking 14:13 minutes.

Ten Months later Ngetich posted a 2nd quickest time on the Valencia half marathon 1:03:04 earlier than he 2019 world Champion Ruth Chepng’etich smashing the ladies’s marathon world report stopping the clock at 2 hours 9 minutes and 56 seconds on the Chicago marathon in October turning into the first girl to complete the 42km race underneath 2 hours 10 minutes.

Hellen Obiri gained the Boston Marathon in 2 hours 22 :37 minutes whereas Peres Jepchirchir set the ladies solely World Record on the London Marathon in 1:16:16.

Ruth Chepng’etich triumphed on the Chicago Marathon with a blended women and men world report earlier than Sheila Chepkirui summed Kenyans very good efficiency in her debut marathon with a 2:24:35 on the New York metropolis marathon.

Benson Kipruto gained the Tokyo marathon in 2:02:16 earlier than Alexander Mutiso Munyao emerged the winner on the London marathon in 2:04:01.

Brimin Kipkorir gained the Sydney Marathon whereas John Korir bagged the Chicago marathon in a time of two:02:44 earlier than Sabastian Kimaru Sawe concluded the yr in fashion for Kenyan males by profitable the Valencia Marathon.

Track World Records

On May twenty fifth, Beatrice Chebet, on the 2024 Prefontaine Classic, obliterated Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey’s 10,000 meters world report of 29:01.03, operating a time of 28:54.14 to change into the primary girl to interrupt the 29-minute barrier.

In July Tripple Olympic Champion Faith Kipyegon shuttered her personal 1,500m World Record with a brand new World report of three minutes 49 .04 seconds .

On the flip aspect, Kenya did not recapture the three,000 m males’s title on the Olympics, with Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco efficiently defending his title whereas girls additionally did not scoop gold in the identical race.

The nation additionally misplaced a number of athletes, each retired and energetic, the most important shock being the loss of life of the boys’s marathon world report holder, Kelvin Kiptum, via a tragic street accident.

Kiptum left behind two kids, his seven-year-old son Caleb and four-year-old daughter Precious.