Roy Gachuhi

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Roy Gachuhi is a journalist and documentary film producer based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has won the Kenya Sports Journalist of the Year Award twice and is a one-time winner of the Kenya Feature Writer of the Year Award.

He is the author of Kick Off: The Game, the Glory and the Greats of Kenyan Football (2018) and the producer of The Last Fight, a documentary about Kenyan boxers. He has also produced coffee-table books The Kenya Air Force Story and Kenya Navy, a 50-year Voyage.

Stories by: Roy Gachuhi

26 February 2018: Laureus Academy member Tegla Loroupe before the annual Laureus World Sports Awards at Le Meridien Beach Plaza Hotel in Monaco.

Sport

Tegla Loroupe brings peace to her violent homeland

The decorated long-distance runner from Kenya hasn’t stopped giving her countrymen and women something to be proud of and smile about, even after hanging up her running shoes.

By: Roy Gachuhi
24 Jan 2020

Sport

Eddie Musi, the legendary papa of Kenyan boxing

Kenya’s best boxing days were spearheaded by a South African who left the country to join the armed struggle but ended up finding a home in Nairobi, where he coached the pugilist’s sport.

By: Roy Gachuhi
14 Dec 2019

12 October 2019: Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, the marathon world recordholder, celebrates as he successfully completes his attempt to run a marathon in under two hours in Vienna, Austria. (Photograph by Lisi Niesner/Reuters)

Sport

Eliud Kipchoge, Kenya’s shining icon

The Kenyan wrote his name in the history books after becoming the first man to finish a marathon in under two hours. His feat has endeared him to his countrymen, who worship at his altar.

By: Roy Gachuhi
25 Oct 2019