Why this is the perfect year for Kenyan athletes to chase world records

Final week (thirteenth June), Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon acquired probably the most extraordinary receptions ever gotten by a Kenyan athlete when she returned to the nation after setting two world information for the 1500m and 5000m distances. She ran 3:49.11 for her first world document in Florence, Italy, and adopted it with the second world document of 14:05.20 in Paris inside per week.

At Kenya’s state home, the president offered her with a money award of KES 5,000,000 (about 36,000 USD) and a three-bedroomed home.

Within the days that adopted, she would get rewarded with a automobile for her father by one of many automobile dealing firms within the nation known as Rana Autoselection Ltd. The corporate rewarded her after she talked about that she would use the funds she acquired from the state home for that goal. She additionally later acquired an additional KES 2,000,000 from the Safaricom Firm.

It could be attention-grabbing to watch that the awards that adopted the primary award got here out because of different firms seeing most of the people’s response and the impact that the gesture to reward the Kenyan star would have on their picture.

Extra firms and most of the people in Kenya are starting to grasp what a world document takes to attain and what it means.

Whereas presenting the awards to Kipyegon, Kenya’s president William Ruto promised to do the identical for some other athlete reaching the identical feat.

The query stays: who would be the subsequent athlete to be rewarded for one more new world document this 12 months?

Will it’s Kelvin Kiptum, who simply ran 2:01:25 to narrowly miss Eliud KIpchoge’s world document on the 2023 London Marathon in April? Kiptum has thus far opted to skip the World Championships in Budapest to give attention to a quick time.

Will it’s Ruth Chepngetich,  returning to run the Chicago Marathon, the place she ran the second-fastest time in historical past, 2:14:18, final 12 months?

Will Eliud Kipchoge push his world document time of two:01:09 additional and hopefully get to run an official sub-2hr marathon time lastly?

Or, will Religion Kipyegon push her world document additional within the 1500m or get the 800m world document as effectively?

As Kenyan firms wait eagerly for the subsequent “Religion Kipyegon” to current awards and advance their advertising and marketing methods, it’s the excellent time for extra world information to be damaged this 12 months.