World under 18 400m silver medalist Mary Moraa has managed to acquire 800m qualifying standards for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Moraa won the two lap race in 1:59.25 to acquire the qualifying the standards during the Sollentuna Grand Prix at Sollentunavallen Stadium in Sollentuna, Sweden.
She managed the title ahead of Noel Yarigo from Benin and Katherina Trost from Germany to second and third places in 2:00.57 and 2:00.67 respectively.
Celebrating her 21st birthday, registered the qualifying time after she won the Tokyo Olympics pre-trials in a personal best of 2:01.12 on May 29 at the Nyayo National Stadium.
Moraa would then win the women’s 800m race at Paavo Nurmi Games improving her personal best to 1:59.95 at Paavo Nurmi Stadium in Finland.
Then Moraa would take Sollentunavallen Stradium by storm, beating the Olympic qualifying time by 0.75secs.
Moraa joins 2013 World 800m champion Eunice Sum, Emily Cherotich and Olympic 1,500m champion Faith Chepng’etich.