Brian Komen, Reynolds Cheruiyot lead Kenya's charge for 1500m title in Rabat
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The field is headlined by Habz Azeddine, the 32-year-old Frenchman carrying a 3:37.27 season best
Kenyan Olympic finalist Brian Komen and 2022 World U20 1500m champion Reynolds Cheruiyot lead Kenya’s charge for the Rabat Diamond League (DL) 1500m men’s title on Sunday, 25 May.
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Komen makes his return to competition after missing the start of the 2025 DL season due to injury, while Cheruiyot scales down to his forte after producing a sensational late kick to win the men’s 5000m in Doha on Friday, 16 May, night.
The duo is joined by another former U20 champion, Vincent Keter, who is opening his 2025 international outdoor season. Also in contention is 3:35.26 runner Boaz Kiprugut and Festus Lagat, who carries a 3:33.25 personal best (PB) to the race.
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Komen, the quickest Kenyan on the field, is looking to build on his breakthrough 2024 track season, having recovered from a nagging hamstring injury that slowed him down during the tail end of last season.
After clocking 3:33.84 in the 1500m in 2023, Komen slashed his personal best to 3:28.80 in Monaco last year, becoming the sixth-fastest man in the world that season.
He capped the year with a victory at the Doha DL and a spot in the Olympic 1500m final in Paris, where he ultimately finished last after battling flu symptoms during the preliminary rounds.
“He ran the Olympics with quite a severe niggle in his hamstring. We took some time off, and he came to South Africa to rehabilitate. He is now firing on all cylinders,” Lee Roy Newton, who began representing Komen at the end of 2024, told LetsRun.com.
On his part, Cheruiyot, who is yet to unleash his junior career dominance on the senior stage, heads to the race buoyed by his 5000m PB from Doha, a 13:16.40 that saw him lower his best time in the distance by almost 20 seconds.
He races the 1500m for the first time since his 3:32.50 finish for seventh at the Brussels DL in September 2024.
The field is headlined by Habz Azeddine, the 32-year-old Frenchman carrying a 3:37.27 season best from his victory at the Championnats Interclubs LIFA on 18 May. He is the only sub-3:30 entrant in this race with his 3:29.26 PB from the Oslo DL in 2023.
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