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This year there were two Kenyans in the top 10, admittedly the top two, but both under the same coach and both training partners of Kiprop. There are six Kenyans in the top 20, the same as Europe.
Kenya has an official population of 60 million, although likely a lot larger than that, given the Third World inability to record births etc there. It's also demographically A LOT younger than the European population. Givens the dozens of global sports European athletes compete at, compared to the one that Kenyans do (distance running) it's fair to say that there are probably far more Kenyans devoting themselves to middle-distance running than in the entire continent of Europe (possibly the entire rest of the world). Yet despite the fact that doping is out of control there, they still do not dominate middle-distance running, and in fact the two brightest stars around are Jakob and (obviously still earlier in his development) Max Burgin.
The best Kenyans today run no faster than greats like Snell, Ryun, Coe, Ovett, Cram would almost certainly be able to run today, even just with modern shoes and tracks.
The fastest 1500m time by a Kenyan, NOT from the EPO free for all era, and NOT at Monaco, and NOT busted for EPO, is AUGUSTINE KIPRONO CHOGE with a 3:29.47 in 2009. The next fastest is Potato Tim 3:29.77 this year in Paris. Coe, Ovett, and Cram were running these kind of times 30 years ago.
Middle-distance has declined markedly in Europe over the last 30 years, but now there's real signs of it becoming popular again, likely because of social media and running apps like Strava, and because guys like Nick Willis and the older Ingebrigtsens proved that clean non-African runners can compete at the top level. Now talents like Jakob are coming to the fore, surely going to be running close to the WR in the next few years, and with others emerging too, most notably in Britain, the traditional power house of European middle-distance.