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S. GitahiKenya’s Mary Moraa, Ferdinand Omanyala and Collins Kipruto in Wednesday’s Indoor Meeting action
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Mary Moraa will compete in three Indoor meets this month
Commonwealth Games 800m champion Mary Moraa and Collins Kipruto will on Wednesday take on to the track for the Orlen Copernicus Cup Lodz Indoor event in Atlas Arena, Poland.
In what is going to be her first indoor appearance, Mary Moraa,22, will have to do it the hard way, going up against Olympics silver medalist Keely Hodgkinson and Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji.
On the men’s side, Collins Kipruto will seek to claim his first indoor meet victory of the season as he goes up against Sweden’s Andreas Kramer – winner of two indoor legs this season at Folksam GP Stockholm Indoor Games and Gothenburg Games in Sweden this year.
Surprisingly, only 0.01 seconds separated the two’s best times this year. Collins Kipruto on 22 January 2023 finished second with a time of 1:45:89 behind Belgium’s Tibo De Smet.
Kramer in his first win on 29 January then clocked 1:45:90.
Alongside them will be Poland’s Olympic bronze medalist Patryk Dobek and Britain’s Guy Learmonth.
6⃣ Mary Moraa'season had many highlights including her double victories at the Diamond League in Rabat and Stockholm.
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Mary Moraa’s first of three back to back indoor appearances will see her compete in France at the Hauts-de-France Pas de- Calais on February 15 before the World Indoor Tour Madrid on February 22.
Moraa will hope to rework the magic she conjured in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham when she came from behind to pip past Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir.
Keely Hodgkinson started her season on a high, breaking the world indoor 600m with a 1:23:41 finish. She has recorded only one loss in the 800m indoors and a European Gold on her resume.
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Elsewhere, Kenyan sprint specialist Ferdinand Omanyala will aim to break his new national 60m record in the Mondeville Meeting in France on Wednesday.
Omanyala clocked a record time of 6.60 in his last Bronze level event finishing second behind Arthur Cisse of Ivory Coast at the Elite Indoor Track meeting in Miramas, France.
