MWANARIADHA: Recent Episodes
JOHN NENE
Kanuti Sum (right) at London's White City Stadium in one of the several competitions he represented Kenya in the 1950s
Featuring the late legend Wilson Kiprugut Chumo and how Nyandika Maiyoro overlapped him when he ran 10,000m for the first time.
In VIDOKEZO segment, Tanzania's most accomplished athlete Filbert Bayi recounts his memorable but unexpected win over illustrious Kipchoge Keino in 1973 and how Kenya's first female Olympic gold medallist Pamela Jelimo was treated like a queen on her return home in 2008.
- Kenya's debut in the Commonwealth Games in 1954 in Vancouver, Canada.
- Do you know the first Kenyan athlete to run in Europe?
- Daniel Rudisha was almost speared while on a training session in Kilgoris by ignorant residents who had no clue on a sport known as athletics.
- Down memory lane with former Athletics Kenya official Francis Nyatome, a 440 yards runner in the 50s.
Waingereza wasiojulikana walituma barua ya kusema kwamba Keino akionekana uwanjani watamfyatulia risasi
Ministry of Sports, Culture &Heritage-KE
Develop, promote, preserve and disseminate Kenya’s cultural and arts heritage; promotion of sports
Keino anajulikana kama baba wa riadha nchini Kenya kutokana na sifa aliyoiletea Kenya katika mashindano mbali mbali ya kimataifa