World champion ensures Kenyans retain 1,500m title won by Magut in 2014

Kenya’s Elijah Motonei Manangoi wins the athletics men's 1500m final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on April 14, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN

It was a race that Kenyans waited for with bated breath. And it did not disappoint as world 1,500m champion Elijah Manangoi and silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot ensured a 1-2 sweep for Kenya at the Carrara Stadium yesterday.

The two – alongside world junior 800m champion Kumari Taki –toyed around the field from the start as they sought to retain the title James Magut’s won in Glasgow in 2014.