African record consolation for Team Kenya after poor Glasgow outing
Bronze medallist, Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's 3,000m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships on March 03, 2024.
Team Kenya will return home with a single medal after former 3,000metres steeplechase world champion, Beatrice Chepkoech, struck her first indoor silverware, winning bronze in women’s 3,000m on Saturday
After setting an African Indoor Record of 3:06.96 in the semi-finals, Kenya’s quartet of Wiseman Were, Zablon Ekwam, Kelvin Tauta and Boniface Mweresa curved off the time by 0.25 seconds in a new time of 3:06.71
Kenya’s 4x400metres men’s team might have shattered the African Record twice but their efforts yielded a fourth place at the World Athletics Indoor Championships that were to end Sunday night in Glasgow, Scotland.
The country’s hopes of securing its first victory since 2012 or a medal also came a cropper when Vivian Chebet settled fourth too in women’s 800m final at the Commonwealth Arena.
