Olympian Ferdinand Omanyala continued with his superlative performance, breaking his own 100m national record after inning the men’s 100m at the International Josko Lauf Meeting in Austria.
Fresh from competing at the Olympic Games when he ended his journey in the semifinals, the 25-year-old Omanyala lowered his personal best to a sub 10 seconds performance this year after clocking 9.86 seconds on his way to winning the men’s 100m.
He ran under ten seconds for the first time 9.96 seconds, a nation record, before lowering it further in the final after defeating Jamal Rhoden-Stevensw from Great Britain to second place in 10.32 as Czech’s Adam Raska settled for third.
Omanyala broke his Kenya record twice at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, returning times of 10.01 and 10.00 in the heats and semi-finals respectively. He made history as the first Kenyan to reach an Olympics men’s 100m semi-finals.