Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omurwa Omanyala continued with his superlative performance by claiming the 60m Indoor championships, the Meeting Lievin Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais in another Kenyan record yesterday.
The reigning Commonwealth Games 100m champion stunned world indoor 60m champion Marcell Lamont Jacobs to win the title, setting another national record of 6.54 seconds, beating his previous national record by 0.1secs
This was the first time Omanyala beat Jacobs, the Olympics 100m gold medallist. The Italian finished second in a season’s best 6.57 as Arthur Cisse from Cote d’Ivoire came third in 6.59.
It was a swift and sweet revenge for Omanyala against Jacobs, who beat him in the same event last year.
At the same time, Commonwealth 800m champion Mary Moraa improved her personal best, clocking 2:00.61 to finish second in the women’s 800m behind the winner Keely Hodgkinson of Britain, who ran a world leading time of 1:57.71.