Kipruto,Yego and Sawe lead Kenya’s medal hunt

Kenya's Conseslus Kipruto celebrates after winning the athletics men's 3000m steeplechase final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on April 13, 2018. / AFP PHOTO /

Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto lines up in the finals today longing to open Kenya’s medal account as the 21st Africa Senior Athletics Championships enters Day Three in Asaba, Nigeria.

The 23-year-old Kipruto has been in tip-top form in the water and barriers race in the past two years -winning Olympic Games, World Athletics Championships, IAAF Diamond League Trophy and the Commonwealth Games. He now longs to pick the bragging rights to the IAAF Inter-continental Championships set for Ostrava, Czech Republic, on September 8-9.