The athletes had a chance to improve their rankings, hit entry standards and have their records ratified among other statistics.
Ahead of the Athletics Kenya (AK) second meet held at Nyayo Stadium on Friday and Saturday, the federation had announced that the event was part of the World Athletics calendar.
The two-day event being enlisted as a World Athletics Competition Ranking and part of its Global Athletics calendar meant the results would be used by the world governing body for statistics of athletes.
The athletes had a chance to improve their rankings, hit entry standards and have their records ratified among other statistics.
One athlete thanking heavens for the move by AK must be Kenya Defence Forces' (KDF) sprints sensation Samuel Imeta who has been in the shadow of Africa's fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala.
As the two lined up for the men's 100m final, a race that was reserved the last for the day, everyone expected an amazing run from Omanyala who had promised to dip under 9.80 in his second outdoor race this year.
In the heats on Friday, the Commonwealth Games champion had clocked a world-leading 9.86 second.
On Saturday, as he lowered that time to 9.81 seconds the performance of runners-up captured the attention of the stadium.
Imeta went toe-to-toe with Omanyala and was only beaten in the last 10m and as the fans eagerly waited for the electronic machines to display the duo's time it was a tense moment.
First, Omanyala celebrated lowering his time this year but nothing could prepare the crowd for Imeta's moment. As the announcer read out the Kenya Army runners time, his fans' screams almost swallowed the rest of the announcers words.
Imeta had not only run a personal best (PB) time, he had dipped under 10 seconds for the first time ever, clocking 9.94 seconds.
What's more, the man joins Omanyala in the list of sprinters qualified for the World Athletics Championships set for Budapest, Hungary later in August.
"I am happy for this performance. I have been working hard in training and this is payback for all the work I have put in. I thank God, my coach and fellow athletes who have pushed me to this time.
This is confirmation that my build up is working and I am in the right path ahead of the busy outdoor season. I started my preparations early and I am happy this is working. There is more to come. I can only get better." He said.
