Check out the athletes’ bio data at the World Athletics portal and you will certainly be taken on a mental flight back to Kenya. Sample her collection card: 5,000m and 10,000m world champion (2011), Olympic gold and silver in 2016, a former world cross-country junior and senior champion and former London Marathon winner. Lydia Cheromei made the national team to World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1990 as a 13-year-old. His rural home neighbours, world 1,500m silver medallist Silas Kiplagat and world marathon bronze medalist Sharon Cherop, were versatile football strikers. Two-time marathon champion Edna Kiplagat and former world cross-country champion Florence Kiplagat were also footballers while Nixon Chepseba, the former Diamond League winner, was a volleyball left attacker.

Source: Standard Digital January 10, 2021 21:22 UTC