Reigning Africa Senior Athletics championships 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala will be lighting up Alexander Stadium as track and field events kicks off tomorrow.
The Africa 100m record holder who lost at the World Athletics championships in the semifinals, will have to prove his worth as the eighth fastest man of all time in the 100m across the world.
He will hope to emulate his feat in Eugene, where he surmounted a visa hitch to cruise to the semi-final of the 100m, making him the first Kenyan to achieve the milestone.
And, indeed, going by his recent tweets, the 26-year-old National Police Service officer has been limbering up for an awe-inspiring show in Birmingham.
Currently, Birmingham has a maritime temperate climate that warms up the air and Omanyala is expected to capitalize on the favourable conditions akin to Nairobi’s to storm into the medal podium.