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I will be Kenya’s best 400m sprinter ever

Kenya was once a force to reckon with in short sprints in the late 1960s, early ‘70s and ‘80s before things fell apart in the ‘90s. We caught up with a member of a budding crop of athletes keen on resurrecting this dominance.

Some of notable flashback performances include the 1968 Mexico Olympics Games where Kenya won her first silverware at the global stage when Charles Asati led a quartet of Daniel Rudisha, Naftali Bon and Munyoro Nyamau to a silver medal finish in the 4x400m race.

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