Athletics Kenya on Thursday, June 13, 2024, named Tue 10,000 team that will be representing country in the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics games.
The women’s team will be led by the current world record holder in the 10,000 metres Beatrice Chebet.
Chebet set the record with a time of 28:54.14 at the 2024 Prefontaine Classic on 25 May.
In setting this record, she became the first woman in history to break 29:00.00 in the 10,000 metres.
In 2022, Beatrice Chebet won the silver medal in the 5000 metres at the World Championships, and became Commonwealth, African and Diamond League champion.
Chebet claimed the gold medal for the women’s senior race at the 2023 and 2024 World Cross Country Championships.
Others in the Kenya’s Olympics team for the 10,000m women are Lillian Kasait who won the bronze medal in the women’s senior race at the 2017 World Cross Country Championships and 2019 World Championship silver medalist Margaret Chelimo.
Daniel Mateiko who won the men’s 10,000m in a thrilling finish, will have the company of Nicholas Kimeli and Bernard Kibet in the men’s 10,000m team.
Kenya’s Marathon team to Paris Olympics 2024
The six athletes joins the Marathon team that was named a few months ago.
Two-time Olympics championship Eliud Kipchoge will lead the men’s team that also include Benson Kipruto the newly crowned London Marathon champion Alexander Munyao.
Timothy Kiplagat is listed as reserve.
In the women’s category, reigning women’s London Marathon winner, Peris Jepchirchir, leads alongside the Boston and New York 2024 Boston Marathon champion Hellen Obiri.
Former world marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei, who took silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, was a surprise inclusion in the team.
Sharon Lokedi is the reserve.
The final team Kenya to Paris is expected to be named after the Olympics trial that which he held on Friday, June 14, 2024.
