Muteti headlines Kenya's team to World Swimming Championships

The Kenya Swimming Federation, after two days of intense National Swimming Trials held at the Kasarani Aquatics Arena over the weekend, announced its full roster of swimmers that will represent the country in various upcoming World swimming events slated for later this year.

The list of seventeen swimmers was divided into three categories, each indicating the championships the country would take part in which are; the Commonwealth Youth Games and two World Swimming Championships set to be hosted by Israel and Japan respectively.

Among the stand-out names that made the list includes; 24 year old Olympian Emily Muteti - set to grace the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan this September and Maria Brunlehner - also part of the Junior Championships game to close out the girls’ category.

Brunlehner and Muteti are Grand Canyon University teammates, with the former being a bronze medalist in the women’s 400 medley relay at the 2019 Africa Games.

The Commonwealth Youth Games team has the quartet of Sarah Mose, Lubaina Islam, Aker Mutinda and Nathan Matimu, all expected to represent the country in Trinidad and Tobago in August.

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Joining Lubaina and Sarah in the World Championships squad for Israel in July is her teammate Bianca Jamal - a Kenyan representative in last year's FINA World Junior Swimming Championship in Peru - together with Antisha Suna, Angel Samoie and Audrey Chebet.

The boy’s team for the Fukuoka Championships will have Commonwealth Games finalist Maina Monyo - who trains at the Simon Fraser University, Canada - and Abubakar Ridhwan who is based in the United Kingdom.

Ridhwan set the Kenyan Record in the 400m free-style last year.

The boys team for Israel will have six swimmers among them; Shaka Gikunda, Aker Mutinda, Joshua Masaka, Nathan Matimu, Haniel Khuduoli and Ali Nandy.

Kenya has never won a medal at the World Aquatics Championships in any discipline.

The country’s most-recognizable swimmers are the Dunford brothers, including two-time Olympian Jason, who finished 5th in the 100m fly at the 2008 Games and won a Commonwealth Games gold in the 50m fly in 2010.

The Kenya Swimming Federation hopes to have their country polls done before the events, as they are still under the auspices of the World Aquatics-appointed Stabilization Committee.

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2019 World Aquatics Championships representative Danilo Rosafio is the shocking exclusion from the teams, having been the sole male Kenyan in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

In the Kenya swimming federation schools national trials, Braeburn swimming club, Seahorses Aquatic Center and Bandari Swim club posted outstanding results as the famous Sunrise Bay Swimmers from Kiambu County finished first runners-up under the leadership of trainer Mzee Mwabondo.