Kenya failed to win a medal at the concluded World Athletics relays champions held in Gaborone, Botswana.
The two day championships that kicked off yesterday, came to an end today with Kenya, unlike in the past failed to secure a single medal despite setting both Continental and national records.
In the mixed 4x400m relay team, Kenya managed to finish fourth as the only hope where George Mutinda, Mercy Chebet, Kelvin Tonui and Mercy Oketch did well.
With 4x400m relay earned a slot for the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships with only one team earning a slot for the 2027 World Championships in Beijing, China.
Today, the first on the track was the mixed 4x100m relay team of Moses Wasike, Millicent Ndoro, Dennis Mwai and Eunice Kadogo but they struggled to make an impact as they could only finish last in their heat in 41.87 seconds, missing out on the top two that was required to seal a World Championships ticket
The same fate befell the country’s 4x400m women’s team of Lonoline Aoko, Hellen Syombua, Margaret Naserian and Maureen Nanjala who finished fourth in their heat in a season’s best 3:32.24 to miss out on a ticket.
However, Kenya could have perhaps sealed a place to the 2027 World Championships in the men’s 4x400m relay were it not for an unfortunate fall
Dennis Mulongo started well in the first leg, taking the lead before passing the baton to Danson Kibet and he also performed impressively before handing it over to Erastus Mbaluka.
Mbaluka maintained the lead and handed the baton to Kevin Kipkorir and he seemed to be cruising well until he tumbled after his leg got tangled with a rival runner
This led to a fall which lost him valuable time and while he rose and continued, it was not enough to make up for lost ground. Kipkorir brought it home gallantly in sixth place
Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala came so close to leading Kenya’s 4x100m relay team to the World Championships but fell short when he finished third on the anchor leg.
Team Kenya had Mark Otieno, Ronald Koech and Meshak Babu on the first three legs but they could not match the pace of China and Ghana before finding Omanyala who had a big gap to close down