Kenya

This page about Kenya at the Olympics is being jointly created by: Ross, Scott, Magnus, Ollie, Charlotte Levi from North Walls will be joining this team!

The Populaton of Kenya in 2012 is just over 43 million. There are a whole variaty of launguages spoken in Kenya.It is thought to be 63 different launguages spoken in Kenya.

Here is a picture of the Kenyan football team.

A the bejing olympics kenya won 6 gold medals 4 silver and 4 bronze. Making it the most successfull country in the whole of Africa.

in 2008 a kenyan runner called Samuel Wansiru aged twenty two got a gold medal in the mens marathon. Samuel Wansiru was born on the 10th of November 1986, he is 1.63metres in height and he weighs 51kg. He was 18 when he set the world record for the half world marathon which was 58. 33 minutes



In Kenya when there is a morning rush hour the roads aren't jampacked with cars like most cities instead it is jampacked with some of the best ruunners in the world. In the Kenyan village of Iten witch is perched on the side of the great rift valley. There is about 4000 people there and between 500 to 1000 are top-class athletes. David Rudisha is a trainer at the local school and is a 800m world champ. Lornah kiplagat is an on-road 5km world record holder and owns a camp there. Wilson kipsang was the winner of the london marathon 2012 and trains at a gym in a high altitude training centre.

Kenyan Olympic Legends

The Kenyan olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru was killed in a domestic dispute after falling off a balcony in his home town Nyahururu in kenya. Wanjiru aged 24 was killed in the late night of sunday. The police found him the next day. His wife said that she caught him with another women. In 2008 beijing olympics sammy wanjiru became the first kenyan to win a gold medal in the marathon finishing in 2hr 6mins 32secs.His death stunned fellow athletes. The police said that he had commited suicide. His cousins say that they found him lying on the concrete floor bleeding from his ears and mouth. Police said that he had suffered internal injuries and that doctors had confirmed that he was dead at a nearby hospital. He had been charged in court earlier on in the year for having illegal possesion of an AK-47 assualt rifle. Boaz-Kiplagat Lalang of Kenya Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images) Edited by Ross Linklater