Kenya’s one shoe wonders: They are better remembered for the missing shoe or rather competing shoeless

Moses Tanui after winning silver medal in Stuttgart in 1993. [IAAF]

Kenyan athletes require no prop to stand tall in the sports arena as they have always produced brilliant shows in global competitions.

Since Kenya made her debut in international competitions at the 1954 Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada where Nyandika Maiyoro finished fourth in the three-mile event while competing barefoot, one distinctive point has stand out – there have been a growing list of Kenyans staging spectacular shows while competing with one shoe.