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| CGF code | KEN |
| CGA | National Olympic Committee of Kenya |
| Medals Ranked 8th |
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| Commonwealth Games appearances (overview) | |
Kenya has attended sixteen Commonwealth Games, beginning in 1954 and missing only the 1986 Games. Kenya has won 237 Commonwealth Games medals, mostly in athletics and boxing, with thirty-four coming from a single event, the 3000 metre steeplechase, an event in which no athlete but a Kenyan has won a medal since 1994. [1]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1954 Vancouver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 Cardiff | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1962 Perth | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1966 Kingston | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 1970 Edinburgh | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 1974 Christchurch | 7 | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 1978 Edmonton | 7 | 6 | 5 | 18 |
| 1982 Brisbane | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 1986 Edinburgh | did not attend | |||
| 1990 Auckland | 6 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 1994 Victoria | 7 | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 2002 Manchester | 4 | 8 | 4 | 16 |
| 2006 Melbourne | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
| 2010 Delhi | 12 | 11 | 10 | 33 |
| 2014 Glasgow | 10 | 10 | 5 | 25 |
| 2018 Gold Coast | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| Total | 85 | 75 | 77 | 237 |
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games, is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, have successively run every four years since. The Games were called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974. Athletes with a disability are included as full members of their national teams since 2002, making the Commonwealth Games the first fully inclusive international multi-sport event. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men's and women's medal events and four years later they are the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
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