1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Kenya)

KEN

3	4th	2

Kenya took part in the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City with a delegation of 39 athletes (36 men and 3 women) in 22 competitions in four sports.

The Kenyan athletes won three gold, four silver and two bronze medals. Olympic champions were the athletes Kipchoge Keino over 1500 meters, Naftali Temu over 10,000 meters and Amos Biwott over 3000 meters.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Samuel Mbugua

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Philip Waruinge

  Featherweight: bronze

• John Olulu

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Steven Thega

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

hockey

• 8th place

  Avtar Singh Sohal

  Surjeet Singh Panesar

  Santokh Singh Matharu

  Harvinder Singh Marwa

  Davinder Singh Deegan

  Kirpal Singh Bhardwaj

  John Simonian

  Renny Pereira

  Alu Mendonca

  Mohamed Ajmal Malik

  New Year Fernandes

  Leo Fernandes

  Hilary Fernandes

  Egbert Fernandes

athletics

Men

• Charles Asati

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Julius Sang

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Munyoro Nyamau

  400 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Daniel Rudisha

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Naftali Bon

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  4 x 400 meter relay: silver

• Wilson Kiprugut

  800 m: silver

• Thomas Saisi

  800 m: 7th place

• Robert Ouko

  800 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Kipchoge Keino

  1500 m: gold

  5000 m: silver

  10,000 m: race not finished

• Ben Jipcho

  1500 m: 10th place

• Naftali Temu

  5000 m: bronze

  10,000 m: gold

  Marathon: 19th place

• Paul Mose

  Marathon: 48th place

• Kimaru Songok

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Amos Biwott

  3000 m obstacle: gold

• Benjamin Kogo

  3000 m obstacle: silver

Women

• Lydia Stephens

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Tekla Chemabwai

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Elizabeth Chesire

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

shoot

• Leonard Bull

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 35th place

• Dism Onyiego

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 68th place

• John Harun

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 76th place

Web links

• Kenyan Olympic team from 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )