Ferdinand Omanyala will be looking for another fast time as he takes on a strong cast at the BFK Games in Hangelo, Netherlands and here’s everything you need to know.
Africa’s fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala, will take part in the FBK Games in Handel, Netherlands on Sunday, his last event before the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Omanyala will face top sprinters such as Canada’s Andre de Grasse, the Olympic 200m champion and 100m bronze medallist, with six men on the entry list having dropped under 10 seconds.
They include Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme and Jamaica’s 2011 world champion Yohan Blake.
Ferdinand Omanyala will take part in one more event, the FBK Games in Hangelo, before the Paris Olympics, but what’s in store for him and his rivals?
The BFK Games, which is a Gold Continental Athletics World Tour, offers Omanyala a chance to gauge his fitness levels as he heads to the Netherlands in excellent form after clocking 9.79 in Nairobi last month, the second fastest time in people this year.
Who else in Hangelo?
Homegrown favorites Sifan Hassan and Femke Bol will once again star in Hengelo this weekend as the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold continues with the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games.
At the Dutch track where she set a 10,000m world record of 29:06.82 in 2021, 31-year-old Hasan returned to defend the 10,000m and 1500m titles she won at this meeting last year – performances sandwiched between them. winning marathon debut in London in April and a second win at 26.2 miles in Chicago in October.
Botswana sprinter Letsile Tebogo has matched the impressive times posted by his track rivals Ferdinand Omanyala, Kishane Thompson and Noah Lyles in recent races.
Meanwhile, Bol, who broke her own world indoor 400m record as she clocked 49.17 to win the world indoor title in Glasgow on March 2, will test herself in the outdoor 400m, an event in which her great hurdler rival Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone capitalizes. This year’s world list with 48.75.
In the women’s 800m, Mary Moraa’s main rival, British Olympian and world silver medalist Keely Hodgkinson, leads a field that also includes Uganda’s 2019 world champion Halimah Nakaayi and France’s Renelle Lamote.
Time and where to watch
The main program will start at 12.09 pm. (EST) with Omanyala’s 100m race being the penultimate event of the day, taking place at 14:27 (EST).
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Fans can watch the action via streaming on FloTrack and it will also be available on Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast and Apple TV.
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