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Road to Tokyo: How Kenyan stars will prepare for World Championships

Athletics

By Stephen Rutto | Jul 23, 2025

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Reynolds Cheruiyot (2nd Left) wins the men's 1500m finals ahead of Timothy Cheruiyot (Right) and Brian Komen during Trials for the World Athletics Championship, Tokyo 2025 at Ulinzi Complex in Nairobi on July 22, 2025. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

With a team for the 2025 World Championships already selected after a spectacular national trials staged at the Ulinzi Sports Complex in Nairobi on Tuesday, the country's top guns are now in the most crucial phase in the Road to Tokyo campaign.

At the end of the trials, the selection panel produced a tapestry of experience and ambition in a team set to serve Kenya from September 13-21 in the Japanese capital - a city that hosted the 2020 Olympic Games in 2021.

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