Omanyala to battle Seville, Jacobs in Sunday's continental tour in Zagreb

Commonwealth Games champion Ferdinand Omanyala will be among the standout names set for a men’s 100m showdown at the Memorial Borisa Hanžekovića World Continental Tour Gold meeting in Zagreb, Croatia on Sunday 10 September.

The event - which will culminate with the track events after two days of field events - will be the Kenyan’s third meeting since finishing seventh at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Omanyala has twice finished second to Jamaican 22-year-old Olympic athlete Oblique Seville this week at the Gala dei Castelli meeting in Switzerland and Palio Citta della Querca in Italy on Monday and Wednesday respectively, clocking 10.04 and 10.15.

Sunday however, will offer the African champion a chance to revenge against the Budapest games fourth placed finisher, and a shot to beating a strong line up consisting of Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Brandon Carnes (USA), and former World Youth Championships gold medalist Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of Japan.

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Omanyala won’t be the only Kenyan to watch on Sunday, as women’s 3000m steeplechase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech will aim to break Gesa Felicitas Krause’s record in the women’s 2000m steeplechase.

The German clocked 5:52.80 to win the ISTAF meeting in Berlin in September 2019.

Chepkoech, who crossed the 2000m in 5:49.9, enroute her record-breaking 3000m steeplechase run in Monaco, will definitely be on the cards to write history.

Fellow Kenyan Winnie Jemutai will flank her in the race.

In the men’s 800m, Kenyan champion Alex Ng’eno Kipng’etich will be alongside another Kenyan - Collins Kipruto - in a field that will also see African champion Slimane Moula of Algeria, World Championships silver medalist Amel Tuka of Bosnia, Andreas Kramer and Gabriel Tual battle for the title.