Sports Personality of the Year Awards (SOYA), celebrated for the last 22 years, highlighting Kenyan sporting excellence, now steps into its 23rd edition with renewed purpose, deeper impact and a future-facing vision led by its founder, legendary athlete and global sports icon Dr. Paul Tergat.
Set for 6 March, the upcoming SOYA Awards Gala represents more than a ceremony, it signals a generational shift in how Kenyan sport is nurtured, governed and celebrated.
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Tergat, a former National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) president and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, is driven by a life-long passion to strengthen sports governance and unlock sport as a pathway to excellence, opportunity and transformation for Kenyan youth.
This vision is deeply rooted in his own journey, one defined, not by early glory, but by late discovery and early heartbreak that became fuel rather than failure.
Tergat discovered his athletic talent not as a teenager but while already drafted into the Kenya Defense Forces. In 1992, after winning the Kenyan trials for the World Cross Country Championships, an injury and an ill-preparation for winter conditions, forced him to miss the global stage.
