Nairobi, Feb. 1 -- Kenyan-born athlete Stephen Cherono, who switched to Qatari citizenship in 2003 and changed his name to Saif Saeed Shaheen, angered a judge by attempting to disown the identity he used during his previous bankruptcy filing.

Cherono-who holds the 3,000-metre steeplechase world record-responded to a preliminary objection in a land case by claiming he was a "stranger to the bankruptcy proceedings filed against him" in a Kisumu court in 2015.

This came as his appeal was opposed by Daniel Ladama Ruto on the grounds that, as a bankrupt, he lacked the legal capacity to file a case-a matter that Environment and Land Court Judge Charles Kimutai eventually ruled in Cherono's favour, but delivered a stern rebuke for his perceive...