Articles by Gilbert Kiprotich

Valerie Aiyabei is escorted after defending her 21km title during the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon 2018 ...

Kisorio, Aiyabei win Eldoret City Marathon titles

1330, April 21, 2019 (EAT)

Mathew Kisorio from Nandi County and Valary Aiyabei from Elgeyo Marakwet are the winners of the second edition of the Eldoret City Marathon held Sunda...

Butali Warriors maintain perfect league start

1101, April 21, 2019 (EAT)

Hockey Premier League Champions Butali Sugar Warriors maintained their perfect start to the 2019 season as they edged former champions Kenya Police 2-...

FILE PHOTO: Asbel Kiprop of Kenya reacts after winning the men's 1500 metres final during the 15...

Olympic champion Kiprop handed 4-year ban

1949, April 20, 2019 (EAT)

Three-time World 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop has been handed a four-year ban after testing positive for the banned substance EPO. In a statement r...

Warriors confront Police in high-stake league clash

1642, April 19, 2019 (EAT)

Action galore is expected this weekend in the Kenya Hockey Union (KHU) Premier League as title holders Butali Sugar Warriors take on Kenya Police on S...

The clock may be a second off, but it's a Dutch all-comers record for Lawrence ...

Cherono: London heartache inspired my Boston victory

1104, April 19, 2019 (EAT)

Newly crowned Boston Marathon champion Lawrence Cherono has attributed his jaw dropping victory to the London Marathon heartache. Cherono was in im...

Athletes during athletics trials for World Under 18 and Africa Under 20 Championship at the Nyayo national ...

Kenya’s athletes harvest medals in Abidjan

1536, April 18, 2019 (EAT)

Kenya got off to a flying start at the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Championships in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with Vincent Keter opening Kenya...

Baringo to roll out red carpet for Cherono upon return

1526, April 17, 2019 (EAT)

The newly crowned Boston Marathon champion Lawrence Cherono is set to receive a heroic welcome when he jets back to the country after he defied all th...

Degefa dominates, Cherono outsprints Desisa in Boston

1135, April 16, 2019 (EAT)

Worknesh Degefa and Lawrence Cherono won the 2019 Boston Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label road race, on Monday with utterly different race strategies. ...

Geoffrey Kirui wins in Boston (PHOTO/IAAF/Victah Sailer)

Kirui eager to recapture Boston Marathon title

1135, April 15, 2019 (EAT)

The world's oldest annual marathon event will go down later Monday with the Boston race set to kick off the 2019 World Marathon Majors season. Worl...

Ethiopia's Abrha Milaw (L) and Ethiopia's Gelete Burka celebrate their victory in the men’s ...

Kenyans dethroned by Ethiopians at Paris Marathon

1644, April 14, 2019 (EAT)

Kenya's winning streak in the Paris Marathon is ended by Ethiopian duo of Abraham Milaw and Gelete Burka in the 43rd edition of the race held Sunday i...

Ferguson Rotich on his way to winning his men 800m semi final at the AK/...

Rotich in as Kenya’s team for World Relays is selected

1756, April 13, 2019 (EAT)

The national team for the World Relay Championship slated for May in Yokohama, Japan has been selected at the Lornah Kiplagat Stadium in Elgeyo Marakw...

Baraza named the finest KPL coach for March 2019

1705, April 11, 2019 (EAT)

Sofapaka coach John Baraza has been named the Fidelity Insurance /Sports Journalist Association of Kenya (SJAK) Coach of the month of March 2019 B...

Kenya sprinters Mike Mokamba (L), Alphas Leken Kishoyian (C) and Peter Mwai during their morning ...

Sprinters brace for World Relays Trials showdown

1518, April 10, 2019 (EAT)

Sprinters are set to converge at the Lorna Kiplagat Stadium in Elgeyo Marakwet County on Saturday for the trials to select team Kenya for World Relay ...

All set for Badminton elections after years of in-fights

1552, April 8, 2019 (EAT)

After a long wait, Badminton Kenya is set to hold its election on April 27 after getting the green light from the Registrar of Sports. The election...

Fireworks expected at AK Relay Series

1825, April 5, 2019 (EAT)

Fireworks is expected on Saturday at the Nyayo National Stadium when more than 200 sprinters take on track for the third Athletics Kenya (AK) Relay Se...

ADAK backs new anti-doping measures

1701, April 3, 2019 (EAT)

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has lauded the move by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and the World Marathon Majors (WMM) to launch a new anti-...

Athletics - 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Aarhus, Denmark - March 30, 2019 Kenya's Hellen Obiri ...

G. Kiprotich: Aarhus performance is a wake up call in preparing teams

2024, April 2, 2019 (EAT)

The Kenyan team to the World Cross Country Championships held in Denmark on Saturday arrived in the country Monday afternoon and despite finishing sec...

Chebet confident of shining at senior level after Aarhus exploits

2102, April 1, 2019 (EAT)

After being crowned the World Cross Country champion in the six-kilometre junior women race, Beatrice Chebet is now gearing to shift to the sen...

Obiri powers to victory for historic World XC gold

1830, March 30, 2019 (EAT)

Hellen Obiri became the first woman to have won individual senior titles on the track outdoors, indoors and in cross country when she led virtually fr...

Kenya takes gold after WXC photo finish drama

1636, March 30, 2019 (EAT)

Kenyan Beatrice Chebet had an initial decision to place her third at the IAAF World Country Championships reversed in her favour as she took gold from...