No. 6 Kipchoge Keino Country:
Kenya Sports: Track and Field We have voted Kip Keino as the 6th greatest African athlete ever and he
ranks this high because we consider him the pioneer of Kenya’s great distance running tradition. He is mostly remembered for his famous race in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City against the USA’s Jim Ryun in the mile where he would go on to defeat solidly even though prior to this race Ryun was considered as the King of the Mile.
Kip Keino has several Olympic Medals to his credit and several awards among which is the 1987 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. He shared Sports Illustrated magazine's award with seven others, who were seen as "Athletes Who Care," for his work with orphans.
Kip is very active in Kenyan Athletics and is the President of the Kenyan Olympic Committee. But his most rewarding activity is the Primary and Secondary School named after himself that he has built in Eldoret Kenya and the Charity he runs for Orphans. H e is married to Phyllis Keino and has two sons who took after their dad’s athletic mold.
From humble beginnings in Kipsamo Kenya to Gold Medal podiums in the Olympic Games around the world Kip Keino exemplifies not just a rag to riches story but the ultimate achievement that most Africans dream of. A humble and focused individual he has inspired a whole generation of Kenyan athletes, and today we see that in the dominance of Kenya in the distance events at athletics com- petitions.
No 5. Theodore Ernest Els (Ernie Els) Country:
South Africa Sports: Golf
Fondly known as ‘The Big Easy’, Ernie Els who was recently elected into the World’s Golf Hall of Fame (2010) and will be inducted in May of 2011, is the most accomplished African Golfer of all time and deservedly so he befits his placement as Africa’s 5th Greatest Athlete ever in our rankings.
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