Omanyala faces Blake, Andre in Hengelo

In his last race before heading to Paris for the Summer Olympics, Ferdinand Omanyala takes on a loaded field Sunday 7July night. 

Africa’s fastest man is on the startline for the FBK Games in Hangelo, Netherlands.  

Omanyala will be on the mark against top a field that Olympics 200m champion, Canadian Andre De Grasse. 

In the Tokyo 2020 Covid-19-delayed Games, De Grasse pipped Omanyala for second in semi final 1, denying the Kenyan who clocked 10:00 for third, a chance to feature in the final.

The Canadian went on to win bronze in 9.89 seconds, finishing behind champion Marcell Jacobs and Fred Kerley. 

Six men on tonight's entry list have dipped under 10 seconds. 

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They include Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme and Jamaica’s 2011 world champion Yohan Blake.

The BFK Games, which is a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold, offers Omanyala a chance to gauge his levels of preparedness given he heads to the Netherlands in great form after clocking 9.79 the second fastest time in the world this year, last month.