Kenya has won 6 Medals, 3 gold medals, 2 silver and a bronze on the first day of the Great Lakes Open Paralympics championships at the Nyayo national stadium. Emmanuel Cheruiyot led a clean medal sweep in the 5000m T11/12 category for the Visually Impaired. Francis Thuo scooped the silver and double Paralympics champion Henry [...]

Kenya’s Virginia Nyambura put herself on course to winning a gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on Thursday after winning her heat in the 2,000 metres steeplechase, beating a field of 13 athletes. Nyambura clocked six minutes and 42.40 seconds as she raced to the finish line ahead of Ethiopian Tsenga Tsehynesh [...]

Kenya’s Harambee Stars take on Ethiopia in Addis Ababa in a friendly international on Wednesday evening as they prepare for the start of the qualifiers for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. The Stars who played to a one all draw Tanzania last week in Dar- es-Salaam left the country on Monday night with a [...]

Kenya lit up the Middlesex Sevens in England with brothers Humphrey Kayange and Collins Injera helping Samurai win the title, while the Shujaa team reached the tournament quarter-finals. Kayange and Injera spotted the Samurai outfit in the one-day knockout tournament, helping the select team to win their first ever title in the tournament’s 80-year-old history. [...]

Paul Kipsiele Koech led a Kenyan sweep of the 3,000 metres Steeplechase winning in a time of 8 minutes 02.18 seconds in the Samsung Diamond League in Stockholm Sweden. The 28-year-old failed to break his own 7 minutes 59.42 seconds stadium record and take home the first one carat diamond. Compatriots Silas Kosgei Kitum was [...]

It had to take the very last event on the final day to decide Kenya’s nation that would assume the mantle of Africa’s track and field kings for the next couple of years. The race — men 4X400m relay final. The overall medal standings prior to that, hosts Kenya were leading Nigeria nine gold to [...]

If Nyayo National Stadium was a continental courtroom, history would say Kenya’s athletes prosecuted their case well, gave a good account of their country, and victory went where it belongs. Ecstasy would be an understatement, euphoric maybe, but electrifying it was. The jolt of victory and aftershock, as they shook the field, was felt in [...]

Kenya on Sunday evening emerged as the overall winners of the five-day Africa senior Athletics championship that ended at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. The host nation ended the final day with 25 medals _ 10 gold, seven silver and eight bronze. South Africa got 19 medals and Nigeria took 18. Ethiopia’s Sofia Abebe [...]

Kenya’s favourite, Vivian Cheruiyot gets the chance to win her maiden African title when she leads the Kenyan trio in the women’s 5,000m final today. The 12 and a half lap decider is one of the most anticipated contests of the 17th Safaricom African Athletics Championships, and takes place on a track Cheruiyot, the reigning [...]

Litttle-known Wilson Kiprop, stunned favourites Mathew Kisorio and Moses Kipsiro of Uganda to clinch 10,000 gold as the Senior Africa Athletics Championship started on Wednesday at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. Ever since Charles Kamathi lifted the gold in Brazzaville in 2004, Kenya has struggled to dominate the race and were humiliated in Addis [...]