Seraphino Antao

Seraphino "Kelly" Antao (30 October 1937 – 6 September 2011) was a runner of Goan descent from Kenya.

He won two events at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, making him the first Kenyan athlete to win a gold medal at an international level.

[2] In 1956, Seraphino entered an athletics carnival run by the Landing & Shipping Company (agents for East African Railways and Harbours Corporation) and won the sprint events.

[7] The 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, marked the highest point of his career, when he won 100 and 220 yards gold medals.

[8] Antao trained hard in Kenya and did well in Europe in the lead-up to the 1964 Summer Olympics, winning at White City in London as well as in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Sweden, and other countries.

He took a coaching course at Loughborough College, owned a boutique in Kensington,[11] and had a clothes stall in a market,[4] before working as an accounts assistant with Thorn EMI.

Mural of Antao in Panaji , Goa