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Athletes are taking stock after the conclusion of the 2024 season and as some continue to celebrate, who are the top Kenyan men coping with disappointment?
Following the conclusion of the 2024 track season, it is time to take stock for a number of athletes with some celebrating their impressive campaigns while others lick their fingers.
Focus will now shift to 2025 where track and field stars will be targeting the World Championships in Japan while marathoners will be out to conquer various city marathons.
But as others celebrate, which Kenyan men will need to revise their strategy after a nightmare 2024 campaign?
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05:45 - 01.10.2024
Eliud Kipchoge reveals which marathon win is special to him
Eliud Kipchoge, who has won the Berlin Marathon a record five times, has revealed just which win is his all-time favourite.
Eliud Kipchoge
The marathon legend had a disappointing season by his very high standards as none of the two events he featured in yielded any semblance of success.
Kipchoge started by featuring at the Tokyo Marathon in March and it did not go to plan as he finished a disappointing 10th, his worst ever finish in a race.
His hopes of righting those wrongs at the Paris Olympics went up in smoke as he endured further misery, when he failed to finish as he dropped out at the 31km mark.
Kipchoge has promised to be back next year and will be looking to make amends when he hits the road again.
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06:57 - 02.10.2024
Emmanuel Wanyonyi narrates how falling at the Kenyan Olympic trials led to his record-breaking 2024 season
Olympic 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi explained how a fall during the Kenyan Olympic trials motivated him to change his race tactics, leading to his remarkable season.
Emmanuel Korir
The former Olympics champion failed to defend his title when he could not get past the semi-finals at the Kenyan Olympics trials after a sixth-place finish in June.
Having been hampered by injuries and poor form, Korir was seeking to bounce back this year but the early signs were that it would be a season of struggle.
He returned to action at the Rabat Diamond League in May since his disappointing outing at the 2023 World Championships, when he was eliminated at the heats, and subsequently failed to defend his title.
But he could only manage ninth place and any hopes of a rebirth at the trials disappeared in thin air. The year 2025 will be a big one for him.
Conseslus Kipruto
Two-time world 3,000m steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto made his long-awaited comeback in May after an eight-month hiatus.
It was a nightmare return for Kipruto who finished 18th at the Rabat Diamond League and failed to attain the Olympic qualifying mark.
The 2016 Olympic champion has not been the same since 2019 with injuries, poor form and personal issues conspiring to slow down his career and at the Olympics trials, the story was the same as he finished 10th.
His final meeting was in Liege, Belgium in late June where he managed 14th place.
Daniel Ebenyo
Daniel Ebenyo makes the list not for poor results but unfortunate circumstances that left him heartbroken.
Ebenyo has not finished outside the top three in all his races this season bar one, the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, which served as Kenya’s Olympics trials for 10,000m.
A combination of misfortunes conspired against him and he ultimately missed out on a chance to feature at the prestigious Olympics.
Ebenyo arrived late in Eugene owing to a visa delay and also tripped and fell during the race, ending up eighth, when only the first two across the line earned direct tickets.
Those tickets went to Daniel Mateiko and Nicholas Kimeli and any hopes of Ebenyo earning the third and final one from the Athletics Kenya panel of selectors went up in smoke when they settled on Bernard Kibet, who was third in Eugene.
He was left to rue the missed opportunity, accusing Athletics Kenya of giving him false promises over a ticket to Paris, but he has a chance to end the year with a smile as he will line up at the Chicago Marathon next week.
Ferguson Rotich
The 2019 world 800m bronze medallist had won silver at the 2020 Olympics and hoped to get a ticket to Paris and try and recapture it, if not do better, but it did not happen.
Rotich endured a tough outing at the trials where he could not even go past the first-round heats after finishing fourth.
He followed it up with sixth place in Turku, Romania in 800 and fourth in Liege in 600m, having posted three straight third place finishes early in the season.
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