Kenyans at a loss to explain why there women were so dominant at Worlds but men only won 3 medals

Probably a talent drought between 5-10k and people going straight to the marathon. To be honest, the Kenyan women aren't doing much better if you take out Chebet. Ngetich is more of a road racer.

I was wondering myself.

I think that the Kenyan federation should pay their top 10 guys more money in order for them to not jump to marathon immediately and do a proper 7-8 years on track.

Sawe is probably a 26:25-30 guy at 10 000m. But can he close strong and kick to win? We will never know.

They should pay to keep a talent pool in track distance.

Women are better responders?

Did you make the430miler psycho troll a moderator?!?!!!

I think a more interesting study would how Ugandan men are now on the scene at world xc, track, and road events. Prior it was only ethio and Kenya and an occasionally Qatari athlete. The last 5 years Ugandan men have totally dominated and popped up everywhere in elite running.

Coach dahl

Peds and basic differences in biology.

Or they don't get caught as much?

Look at how many fast men Kenya lost due to bans, compared to rather few women:

Kenyan distance stars banned since the AIU started testing:
World Record setters: Kiptum 2019, Kipsang 2020, Kipruto 2024, Kandie 2025, Koech 2025, Chepngetich 2025
Olympic champs: Sumgong 2017, Kiprop 2017
World champs: Manangoi 2020
Marathon Majors winners: Chepchirchir 2019, Wanjiru 2019, Cherono 2022, Kipyokei 2022
Commonwealth champs: Chepkirui 2019
African champs: Kipkemoi 2019, Aprot 2022
Sub 27 runners: Renju 2022, Kwemoi 2024, Langat 2024
Sub 59 runners: Kitwara 2019, Korio 2022, Kisorio 2022
Sub 2:06 runners: Gachaga 2022, Kacheran 2022, Kipserem 2022, Ekiru 2023, Kipyego 2024, Belet 2024, Kipkorir 2025
Sub 30 female runners: Anyango 2024

More pay to play opportunity.

Maybe true, but I see you got your butt kicked today at the osu jamboree. You got 70th out of 201. Atleast you made the top half time time 😄 🤣

Yes. Corrupt countries prefer to select athletes instead of having a clear race qualification system.

European and american men are more responders to new PED(and started to run super fast times) but women not

USA men distance runners are waay better than USA women.

If Kenyan men being outperfomed by women you say women are better responders... We could use the same logic and say USA men are better responders than women too

Kenyan men especially kal3njins have never been good kickers and races are usually won by a last lap kick. Good endurance but in a kicker's race its very few kenyan men who have come on top thats why most move to the roads earlier. They cant easily win track races due to lack of a kick

"Why there women were"

I see people use there instead of their all the time, but I don’t understand how people make this error. Maybe because english isn't my first language. Is it because of a voice to text app or something like that?

Its quite easy to explain and I know I will get ennemies with this claim.

1. East African Women domination is natural.

2. East African Male struggling the last 15 are du to:

- Western countries using East African 'Lagat, Mo Farah, Sifan, American from EA roots".

- The recent Ingebrigtsen training phenom used in a rivalry by Western countries which produced a bunch of soft runners making their way in the track elite runners".

Too much circuit racing around the globe is usually the reason for Kenyan underperformance. The Ethiopian national team exercises more control over their athletes and in the past, when they were really dominant in championships, would really limit their circuit races. Men also have a more competitive international picture than women because in a lot of countries, women don't participate much in track for cultural reasons. In Kenya, there has been a lot of growth in women's running, which partly accounts for it. They are also higher responders and we do know that the men's ranks have been eviscerated by positive tests in Kenya.

Its not only a Kenya problem its an East African problem du to managing and federation resources.

We had 3 U20 excellent Ethiopian Mid-distances runners in the last years, why they not supported?

Yeah, how many panicked threads are there going to be about this? The increased scrutiny has caused slight a derailing of the Kenyan Doping Express on the men’s side. Once this happens on the women’s side the same drop off will occur The excuses that imply something other than better testing and scrutiny are silly.

Maybe they had all their best men athletes transgender so they could win at worlds?

Has to be something like this. Or maybe women have an advantage of some kind in evading testers, or bribing them? The men can only offer tea money...