Kenya (KEN)

The Kenyan National Olympic Committee was founded on 14 February 1955 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the IOC session in Paris on 17 June of the same year. In 1956 it made its Olympic début and since then it has been absent only from the Olympics of 1976 and 1980, both of which it boycotted. Kenya has won 103 Olympic medals through 2020, with 31 gold. In 1966 the Olympic Committee of Kenya was awarded with the Count Alberto Bonacossa Trophy.

Kenya has won seven medals in boxing but all of its other medals are due to its excellent runners, the most outstanding of these at the Olympics having been Kip Keino. Kenya first competed at the Olympic Winter Games in 1998, when their sole representative, Philip Boit, competed in cross-country skiing. Boit was the nephew of former Kenyan middle-distance Olympian, Mike Boit, and again competed at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics. Sabrina Simader was Kenya’s first female Winter Olympian, in Alpine skiing at PyeongChang in 2018.