Top sprinters have been accorded a chance to qualify to this year’s World Athletics championships set to be staged in Budapest, Hungary next month.
Yesterday, the Athletics Kenya in conjunction with National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) sent two teams to Gaborone, Botswana to seek 4x400m and 4x400m mixed relays qualification standards at the Track and Field Competition scheduled for Thursday, July 20, 2023.
The Kenyan contingents are seeking qualifying times/slot for the 2023 World Championships scheduled for Budapest, Hungary next month.
The men’s 4x400m team comprises of Wiseman Were, Bonface Mweresa, Kennedy Kimeu and Zablon Ekwam while the mixed relays trialists include Ekwam, Kevin Tauta, Mercy Oketch, Maureen Thomas and Millicent Ndoro.
Both teams are currently ranked 16th in the world, the last qualification slot for teams to compete at this year’s global showpiece.
Josphat Kimaiyo and Pascalia Jelagat are the coaches accompanying the team that leaves tonight aborad Kenya Airways to OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg before connecting flight to Gaborone.