Olympic and London champion, Samuel Wanjiru will lead the national squad to Berlin while world marathon champion Luke Kibet was named as a reserve in the national squad.At the same time, two-time gold medallist and reigning women’s titleholder, Catherine Ndereba, is in line to gun for an unprecedented third crown after she was included in the women’s team.
With over 90 marathoners running the A qualification standards (2:18:00 men, 2:43:00 women) for Berlin in the past year, Athletics Kenya (AK) had probably the largest pool to select a team of ten and an equal number of reserves.
At the end of selection, the hottest marathoner on the planet, Olympic and London champion, Samuel Wanjiru’s name popped out of the hat first in the men’s team.
Rotterdam Marathon champion, Duncan Kibet (31) and the runner whom he shares the national record of 2:04:27, James Kwambai also made the squad.
Kibet and Kwambai recorded the third fastest marathon time ever on April 5.
Daniel Rono, second finisher at Boston and Emmanuel Mutai who placed fourth at London complete the men’s line-up.
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