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After Team Kenya's delegation list to the Paris 2024 Olympics was unveiled, here is how it compares to regional rivals Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.
The National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) finally made public Team Kenya’s delegation to the Paris Olympics following a push by Kenyans over the last few weeks.
Team Kenya will take a delegation of 160 to Paris but of those, only 81 will be athletes. Coaches, physios and team managers will total to 43, three referees, five members of the Olympic family, 26 management team and three heads of delegation.
Of the 81 athletes, track and field has the biggest delegation, totaling 46, followed by women’s volleyball (16), rugby sevens (15) with two swimmers and as many judokas and one from fencing.
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20:00 - 18.07.2024
RELEASED: Kenya's delegation to Paris 2024 Olympic Games revealed
The complete 160-man Kenyan delegation for the 2024 Paris Olympic games:
Kenya has the biggest delegation from East Africa as none of their regional counterparts comes close.
Heading to the Paris Olympics, Pulse Sports details how the other East African countries compare.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia has the second highest Olympics delegation from East Africa which perhaps explains why they are the second most successful nation at the Games after Kenya.
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The Ethiopians are taking a 33-member athletes’ delegation to Paris which is made up of track and field stars.
Veteran Kenenisa Bekele, world marathon record holder Tigst Assefa are some of the big names in Team Ethiopia to Paris although there have been hue and cry over the exclusion of other notable athletes such as Tsigie Gebreselama, Sutume Assefa and Yomif Kejelcha.
Uganda
Uganda will be represented by a total of 25 athletes, with 21 from athletics, a female rower, a male cyclist and two swimmers.
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It is in athletes where Team Uganda are looking to win medals with 5,000m defending champion Joshua Cheptegei and Peruth Chemutai, the 3,000m steeplechase Olympic champion, looking to retain their titles.
There is also great hope in Jacob Kiplimo, the Olympic 10,00m bronze medallist, who recently won the World Cross Country title.
Tanzania
Tanzania will have a delegation of just eight athletes at the Paris Games, after being offered four wild card entries by the International Olympics Committee.
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Only four runners, Alphonse Simbu, Gabriel Gae, Magdalena Shauri and Jackline Sakilu qualified for the Olympics, and they will be joined by boxer Yusuph Changalawe, judoka Andre Mulungu, swimmers Collins Saliboko and Sophia Latiff.
Rwanda
Like Tanzania, Rwanda is also taking eight athletes to the Games, being five women and three men in cycling, athletics, swimming, and fencing. Team Rwanda has been is camping in French town Courbevoie ahead of the Games.
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