- Kenyan male athletes failed to play in 2025 World Cups in Tokyo, Japan
- Emmanuel Wanyonyi is the only male athlete who won the gold medal, with Kenya doing poor
- Head coach Julius Kirwa has removed the elbow about Kenyan playing in Tokyo and what needs to be changed to move forward
Kenyans are still enjoying the good athletes who participated in the 2025 world athletics in Tokyo, Japan. But performance does not tell the whole story.
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Kenya finished with seven gold medals, two silver medals, and two bronze, and took second place in the medal at the end of the nine -day event.
Who won Kenya Medal at World Championship in Tokyo 2025?
Beatrice Chebet was the star of the show, winning two gold medals in the 5,000 -meter and 10,000 women’s race. His friend, Faith Kipyegonhe won the fourth world title in the women’s 1,50 -meter race before winning the silver medal in the 5,000 -meter race. Dorcus Ewoi won the silver medal in the 1,500 -meter race.
Peres Jepchirchir defeated Tigst Asefa of Ethiopia and won the women’s marathon, with Lilian Odira surprisinging Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson and winning the women’s 800 -meter race in a new championship record.
Faith Cherotich defeated Kenyan -born Bahraini athlete Winfred Yavi and won the women’s race. Emmanuel Wanyonyi won the 800 -meter race for men, Reynold Cheruyiot was the third in the men’s 1500 meters, while Edmund Serem won the bronze in the race and water for men.
The result of a Kenyan athletic team in Tokyo
However, out of the 11 medals brought home, male athletes contributed only three, focusing on the direction of the Kenyan race.
In the men’s marathon, the first Kenyan, Kennedy Kimutai, ranked 16th in total. Serem did well to enter the jumping platform, but this was an event that Kenya lost only twice between 1991 and 2019 during the main days of Moses Kiptanui, Ezekiel Kemboi and Conseslus Kipruto.
Despite being a bad reputation in the middle and long range, Kenya failed to provide an athlete on the men’s 5000 and 10,000 meters.
This was a huge difference to how female athletes played. So what happened to male athletes?
Why did Kenyan male athletes not make the impulse in Tokyo
Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, Kenyan head coach Julius Kirwa said that something had to change, explaining how the team was selected.
“I have to congratulate our well -performing female athletes despite the humidity in Tokyo. When we chose the team, we did not focus on gender, but all those who reached the qualifying mark required by the world athletics.”
Selection criteria must be changed
Kirwa missed the words to describe Kenya’s poor play in the 5000 -meter and 10,000 men’s race, but shared his original views.
“I will tell the federation we need to change the criteria for how we choose our athletes for these events, you find the athlete is running on the road and then he is selected to run by following the stream in the tournament.
“There are some athletes.
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Marathon teams should be selected in advance
In the men’s marathon, Kirwa admitted their fault. The head coach wants the marathon selected athletes to be informed in advance.
“Athletes should be informed early. This year, we only told them in June. Many athletes had already planned to run another race. They told us they were registered and not available to run Tokyo.
Faith Kipyegon hugs her husband to the bridesmaids
Kipyegon and her husband hugged each other warmly after landing in Kenya.
Kipyegon was welcomed by sports secretary Elijah Mwangi before sharing time with his girlfriend.
The 31 -year -old won two medals in Tokyo, thus strengthening her heritage as one of the bosses.
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