Ferdinand Omanyala he thundered imperially in his Nairobirunning i 100 meters in a dizzying 9.79 (1.5 m/s of favorable wind and at 1,800 meters above sea level) during the admission trials to the Paris 2024 Olympics. The Kenyan champion sent a clear message to all sprinters in view of the Games, even if this state of form will have to be preserved and certain times will have to be replicated even in the races that really count, something he has rarely managed to do in recent years (semi-final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 World Championships, seventh place in the world championship in 2023).
The 28-year-old has so came close to his African record of 9.77 course in 2021 again in the capital of Kenya and signed the best seasonal world performance, significantly improving the performances offered last June 1st in Kingston by the Jamaican Oblique Seville (9.82) and the American Noah Lyles (9.85 for the World Champion). At the moment there are sixteen men who have run under the ten-second barrier in 2024, our Marcell Jacobs (Olympic and European Champion) is stuck at 10.02 in Rome, but appears to be making great progress.
Ferdinand Omanyala said: “I would like to run 9.8 in the races that count this year“. We’ll see if the Kenyan succeeds in his aim, we also expect a prompt reply especially from Noah Lyles at the USA Trials which will be held in Eugene. Other top Kenyans also stood out in Nairobi, including Faith Kipyegon, who achieved a double pass over 1500 and 5000 metres.
