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Sporting Witness: Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

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Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

12/08/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

How blind runner, Henry Wanyoike, set world records and won Paralympic golds.

In 1995, promising Kenyan runner Henry Wanyoike suffered a stroke and lost his sight. After initially feeling depressed, Henry learnt how to run tethered to a guide and went on to a set a series of long-distance running records for the blind. Henry Wanyoike talks to Alex Last. 

(Photo: Henry Wanyoike, right, with his guide on a run in 2013. Credit: Getty Images)

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