L. MathekaKorir, Moraa lead Kenyan contigent in Stockholm
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Reading Time: 2min | Thu. 30.06.22. | 20:14
The two are preparing for action in Oregon in July.
The world’s top athletes are in Stockholm tonight, 30 June, for the penultimate Diamond League meet before next month’s World Athletics Championships
Olympic Champion, Lamont Marcell Jacobs has withdrawn from the Stockholm Diamond League, just two(2) hours before the men's 100m after feeling pain in his training.
— Track & Field Gazette (@Athleticsglobe) June 30, 2022
Will he get back in form or is he now a major doubt for the World Championships which is just two weeks away? pic.twitter.com/iWIDAISsIL
Last weekend saw many Kenyan stars claim their place at the Worlds through the national trials, but the action hasn’t stopped there.
Olympic champion and 400m men's winner at the Athletics Kenya trials Emmanuel Korir is in Sweden where he is set to race in the 800m alongside former World Indoor Tour champion Collins Kipruto and Olympics silver medalist Ferguson Rotich.
Coaches Eye! - Side view -1/2
— Geoffrey Kimani (@GeoffKimani) June 26, 2022
Mary Moraa enroute to qualifying for the worlds in the 400m 50.85....Hours after running a blistering 1;57 in the 800! ..some biomechanical adjustments/alignment on her technique, she could be suddenly up there on the all time lists in both events. pic.twitter.com/YDCrRP65v4
Also in action is Olympian Mary Moraa who last week won the women's 400m in a new national record to book a ticket to Oregon in the distance.
She takes on new-found rival, South African sensation Prudence Sekgodiso in what will be their third meeting this year since racing against each other at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi.
The women’s 800m will be made that more tougher for the Kenyan by the presence of Britain’s Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson as well as reigning World champion in the distance, Uganda's Halima Nakaayi.
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