NAIROBI — Commonwealth Video games champion Ferdinand Omanyala will likely be in competition on the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Grand Prix in Pretoria on Wednesday night.
Omanyala will likely be working within the males’s 100m the place he will likely be competing in opposition to six different sprinters, together with fellow countryman, Mark Otieno.
Different foreigners within the race embrace 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 will likely 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 Area Weekend assembly in Thika the place he clocked 10.02 to win Warmth 2 of the boys’s 100m.
Nevertheless, the competitors appeared to be extra of a heat up for Omanyala who didn’t run within the remaining.
His compatriot, Otieno, can even be working 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 project 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.