Former world under 20 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi will be the only Kenyan to fly the Kenyan flag at the 800m finals at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Wanyonyi won his semi-final heat after posting 1:43:83 ahead of Spanish Ben Adrian in a personal best of 1:43.92.
The other Kenyan in the semifinals Alexander Ngeno was axed after finishing eighth in Heat 2 in 1:45.56.
The heat was won by Canadian Marco Arop in 1:44.02 with Algerian Djamal Dedjati (1:44.49) and Spanish Saul Ordonez (1:44.74) placing second and third respectively.
Algeria’s Slimane Moula won Heat 1 in 1:43.93 ahead of Tshepiso Maselela of Botswana (1:44.14) and Ben Pattison (1:44.23).
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