Kenya’s President William Ruto commended the country’s Olympic athletes for their outstanding performance at the Paris 2024 games and awarded them a total of $163,000 in recognition of their achievements.
Kenya secured the 17th position overall in the medals table and emerged as the top-performing African country at the Games.
“Kenya’s pride in athletics does not end in the 11 medals that we won in the Olympic Games. Our potential remains immense and underexploited,” Ruto said.
Gold medalists Beatrice Chebet (women’s 10,000 and 5,000m), Faith Kipyegon (women’s 1500m), and Emmanuel Wanyonyi (Men’s 800m) received 3 million Kenya shillings for each medal.
Faith Kipyegon (women’s 5000m) and Ronald Kwemoi (men’s 5000m) were awarded 2 million Kenya shillings, respectively, for winning silver.
Bronze medalists Mary Moraa (women’s 800m), Abraham Kibiwott (men’s 3,000m steeplechase), Faith Cherotich (women’s 3,000m steeplechase), Benson Kipruto (men’s marathon) and Hellen Obiri (women’s marathon) were each awarded 1 million Kenya shillings.
World Athletics had announced before the Olympic games that it will award a cash prize of about $ 50,600 to gold medalists.