1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Kenya)

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Kenya took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital of Rome with a delegation of 27 male athletes in 13 competitions in four sports.

The youngest athlete was the hockey player Egbert Fernandes (19 years and 63 days), the oldest athlete was the sailor Anthony Bentley-Buckle (39 years and 17 days). It was the country's second summer Olympics participation .

Participants by sport

hockey

• Results

  Group stage: Group C, five points, 8-0 goals, first place, qualified for the quarter-finals

  1-0 win against Germany

  Goal scorers: Hilary Fernandes

  7-0 win against Italy

  Goal scorers: Hilary Fernandes (3 ×), Avtar Singh Sohal (2 ×), Egbert Fernandes, Quarto Pianesi (own goal)

  0-0 draw against France

  Quarter finals

  1: 2 loss to Great Britain

  Goal scorers: Avtar Singh Sohal

  Play for fifth to eighth

  1: 1 draw against Australia

  Goal scorers: Surjeet Singh Deol

  1: 2 loss to Australia

  Goal scorers: Surjeet Singh Panesar

  Game against Germany not played

  Seventh place

• Squad

  Krishnan Kumar Aggarwal

  Edgar Fernandes

  Egbert Fernandes

  Hilary Fernandes

  New Year Fernandes

  Saude George

  Aloysius Mendonca

  John Simonian

  Kirpal Singh Bhardwaj

  Surjeet Singh Deol

  Surjeet Singh Panesar

  Pritam Singh Sandhu

  Gursaran Singh Sehmi

  Avtar Singh Sohal

  Nil Jagnandan Singh

  Anthony Vaz

athletics

• Arere Anentia
  • 10,000 meter run

  Final: 30: 03.0 minutes (hand-stopped), 30: 01.00 minutes (automatically stopped), 19th place

• Seraphino Antao
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run two (first place), 10.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 10.64 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Quarter-finals: qualified for the semifinals in run four (third place), 10.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 10.61 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Semi-finals: eliminated in run two (sixth place), 10.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 10.72 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 110 meter hurdles

  Round one: eliminated in run one (fifth place), 15.0 seconds (hand-stopped), 15.13 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run eleven (rank one), 21.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 21.44 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Quarter-finals: eliminated in run two (fourth place), 21.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 21.43 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Arap Sum Kanuti
  • marathon

  Final: 2: 46: 55.2 hours, 59th place

• Nyandika Maiyoro
  • 5,000 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the final in run one (third place), 14: 06.0 minutes (hand-stopped), 14: 06.29 minutes (automatically stopped)

  Final: 13: 52.8 minutes (hand-stopped), 13: 53.25 minutes (automatically stopped), sixth place

• Bartonjo Rotich
  • 400 meter hurdles

  Round one: qualified for the semi-finals in run five (second place), 51.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 51.39 seconds (hand-stopped)

  Semi-finals: eliminated in run two (fifth place), 51.8 seconds (hand-stopped), 51.97 seconds (hand-stopped)

  • 400 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarterfinals in run seven (third place), 47.7 seconds (hand-stopped), 47.89 seconds (hand-stopped)

  Quarterfinals: eliminated in run three (seventh place), 47.8 seconds (hand-stopped), 47.97 seconds (hand-stopped)

shoot

• Edward Penn
  • Free target gun

  Qualification: Group two, 340 points, rank 20, overall rank 41, qualified for the final

  Round one: 88 points, ninth place

  Round two: 85 points, 19th place

  Round three: 78 points, 32nd place

  Round four: 89 points, sixth place

  Final: 521 points, rank 40

  Round one: 87 points, rank 37

  Round two: 87 points, 33rd place

  Round three: 83 points, rank 50

  Round four: 87 points, 36th place

  Round five: 90 points, rank 14

  Round six: 87 points, 29th place

• Charles Trotter
  • Small caliber lying

  Qualification: Group two, 381 points, rank 23, overall rank 48, qualified for the final

  Round one: 95 points, rank 23

  Round two: 98 points, tenth place

  Round three: 94 points, rank 27

  Round four: 94 points, 33rd place

  Final: 574 points, rank 37

  Round one: 97 points, 19th place

  Round two: 94 points, 45th place

  Round three: 95 points, 43rd place

  Round four: 94 points, rank 37

  Round five: 97 points, 19th place

  Round six: 97 points, 23rd place

• Peter Visagie
  • Small caliber lying

  Qualification: Group one, 383 points, rank 21, overall rank 37, qualified for the final

  Round one: 94 points, rank 25

  Round two: 96 points, 22nd place

  Round three: 96 points, 20th place

  Round four: 97 points, 17th place

  Final: 571 points, 43rd place

  Round one: 93 points, rank 50

  Round two: 94 points, 40th place

  Round three: 96 points, rank 37

  Round four: 98 points, 20th place

  Round five: 94 points, rank 47

  Round six: 96 points, 33rd place

sailing

Flying Dutchman

• Results

  Final: 2,680 points, 20th place

  Race one: 689 points, 2:33:22 hours, eighth place

  Race two: 446 points, 2:29:32 hours, 14th place

  Race three: 101 points, race not finished (DNF)

  Race four: 478 points, 2:47:48 hours, 13th place

  Race five: 416 points, 2:17:18 hours, 15th place

  Race six: 337 points, 2:20:24 hours, 18th place

  Race seven: 314 points, 2:18:31 hours, 19th place

• team

  Anthony Bentley-Buckle

  Ronald Blaker

singles

• Daniel Mackenzie
  • Finn dinghy

  Final: 1,686 points, rank 29

  Race one: 247 points, 1:54:02 hours, 25th place

  Race two: 323 points, 2:09:30 hours, 21st place

  Race three: 230 points, 1:50:30 hours, 26th place

  Race four: 198 points, 2:20:01 hours, 28th place

  Race five: 114 points, 2:00:11 hours, 34th place

  Race six: 441 points, 1:56:33 hours, 16th place

  Race seven: 247 points, 1:56:49 hours, 25th place

Web links

• Kenyan Olympic team 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )