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Kenya get 125 slots for Commonwealth: The new quota means a reduction from the previous 195 participants

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By DENNIS OKEYO | Nov 11, 2017

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Kenya's David Rudisha (C) runs to victory ahead of Kenya's Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich (L) and Scotland's Guy Learmonth (R) in their semi-final of the men's 800m athletics event at Hampden Park during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on July 30, 2014. AFP PHOTO

Kenya has been allocated only 125 participants to the next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on April 4 to 15 next year.

The new quota means a reduction from 195 participants that took part in 2014 edition in Glasgow, Scotland with athletics taking the lion’s share in the team with 66 athletes. The squad collected ten gold medals, ten silver and five bronze with most of the medals coming from athletics with one bronze coming from boxing and the others in Paralympics.

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