Kenyan athletics pioneer Daniel Rudisha dies
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Daniel Rudisha, a member of Kenya’s silver medal-winning relay quartet at the 1968 Mexico Olympics and father to 800m world record holder David Rudisha, has died.
David said his 73-year-old father, a former teacher who retired to become an athletics coach, succumbed to cardiac arrest in a hospital in Nakuru, northwest of Nairobi, on Wednesday night after a long illness. “Our beloved father sadly left us last night. He appeared to be recovering well after he was rushed to hospital for kidney failure last week,” he said. Fifty years ago, the elder Rudisha ran the anchor leg to earn Kenya’s first Olympic 4 x 400m relay silver medal, behind the world record-breaking United States.
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