Kenya
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first participated at the
Olympic Games
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in 1956, and has sent athletes to compete in every
Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 and 1980 Games. Kenya participated in the
Winter Olympic Games
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in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
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2002,
2006 and
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the Unit ...
. Kenyan athletes have won 113 medals in total, all from boxing and track and field events, making them the most successful African committee at the Olympics. In terms of total medals won, the most recent Summer Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2016) have been Kenya's most successful, producing 42 medals between them.
The number of Kenyan women winning Olympic medals has risen dramatically, from their first in 1996 to more than half the Kenyan medals in 2016 (seven).
Increasingly, Kenya-born athletes are immigrating to compete in the Olympics for other countries, most notably Bahrain. In the 2016 Olympics, there were ~20 such athletes, including multiple medal winners.
The
National Olympic Committee for Kenya is the ''National Olympic Committee Kenya'', founded in 1955.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
Medals by Winter Games
Medals by sport
List of medalists
Multiple medal winners
See also
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List of flag bearers for Kenya at the Olympics
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Kenya national athletics team
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:Olympic competitors for Kenya
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Kenya at the Paralympics
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Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
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References
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