NAIROBI — Commonwealth Video games champion Ferdinand Omanyala can be in rivalry on the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Grand Prix in Pretoria on Wednesday night.
Omanyala can be operating within the males’s 100m the place he can be competing towards six different sprinters, together with fellow countryman, Mark Otieno.
Different foreigners within the race embody Zimbabwe’s Makusha Ngoni and Boitshwarelo Mothusi of Botswana.
After Wednesday’s race, Omanyala will then shift focus to the ASA Grand Prix II, set for Johannesburg on March 19.
The 2 competitions can be first worldwide races this yr for Africa’s quickest man since September final yr when he clocked 10.07 to win the boys’s 100m in Brussels.
The 2022 African champion was in motion finally weekend’s second leg of the Athletics Kenya (AK) Observe and Subject Weekend assembly in Thika the place he clocked 10.02 to win Warmth 2 of the boys’s 100m.
Nevertheless, the competitors gave the impression to be extra of a heat up for Omanyala who didn’t run within the closing.
His compatriot, Otieno, will even be operating in his first worldwide race since August when he competed on the Wieslaw Maniak Memorial in Poland.
On that event, the previous nationwide champion clocked 10.60 to complete third.
Otieno additionally competed in his first-ever worldwide task for the nation ever since he was slapped with a two-year doping ban.
He clocked 10.42 to complete fifth within the semi-final of the boys’s 100m on the African Championships in Douala, Cameroon in June final yr.