38年前,吉普考奇·凯诺以一枚奥运会金牌创造了历史,他自己本人也成了肯尼亚的民族英雄和奥运会历史上最伟大的中长跑运动员。更为重要的是,凯诺影响了整整一代肯尼亚长跑运动员。事实上,在凯诺获得奥运会冠军和美国大学大量招募肯尼亚运动员之前,肯尼亚的长跑运动就有了较大的发展。而肯尼亚运动员出现在国际赛场上更可以追溯到20世纪50年代:肯尼亚基西部落的尼安迪卡·迈约罗参加了1954年在伦敦举行的帝国运动会、1956年(墨尔本)和1960年(罗马)两届奥运会,并取得了不错的成绩。迈约罗为20世纪60年代中后期的肯尼亚运动员树立了榜样,而这些运动员的成功得益于英国和肯尼亚教练员所做的基础性工作。从这个时期开始,肯尼亚的长跑运动水平开始逐 Thirty-eight years ago, Jeep Cauchy Keno created history with an Olympic gold medal, himself a Kenyan national hero and the greatest long-distance runner in the history of the Olympic Games. More importantly, Keno influenced a whole generation of Kenyan distance runners. In fact, long-distance runners in Kenya have seen significant growth before winning the Olympics champion at Keno and U.S. universities recruiting Kenyan athletes in large numbers. And Kenyan athletes appear on the international stage can be traced back to the 1950s: Neanderthal Mayorillo of Kenya’s Kieshi tribe participated in the 1954 Imperial Games in London, 1956 (Melbourne) and 1960 Rome) two Olympic Games, and achieved good results. Majoluo set an example for Kenyan athletes in the mid-to-late 1960s, and the success of these athletes benefited from the foundation work done by coaches in England and Kenya. From this period on, the level of long-distance running in Kenya began to go down