World Champs U20: Can Kenya end their Lima outing on a high?

Five days of World Athletics U20 Championship in Lima, featuring some 1700 athletes from more than 130 teams, will conclude on Sunday 1 September (EAT time) when the final 13 titles will be won.

The session starts with the men’s discus and ends with the 4x400m relays but for Team Kenya, attention will be on the middle distance races. 

First up will be the duo of Miriam Chemutai and Mary Nyaboke, fighting for 1500m medals from 1:00am, an hour after the program begins at midnight. 

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Ethiopia’s Saron Berhe is the clear favourite for this title with a personal best eight seconds quicker than her nearest rival on the entry lists.

The 17-year-old won the African title in June and dipped under four minutes for the first time in April at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, clocking 3:59.21. She will be joined by compatriot Tsige Teshome, who won silver at the Ethiopian U20 Championships last month.

At 1:15 am, Team Kenya captain Edmund Serem and Mathew Kosgei take on a world field in the men's 3000m steeplechase. 

The duo could deliver a 1-2 for the country of their season best times are anything to go by. Serem, keen to walk in the footsteps of his elder brother Amos Serem who won the title in 2021, leads the field with a 8:20.05 personal and season best while Kosgei is second in 8:21.98. 

Josphat Kipkirui, meanwhile, will carry Kenya's hopes for a medal in the men's 1500m when he takes to the track at 2:05am . 

Australia’s Cameron Myers could crown a strong season with the world U20 1500m title. He led qualification, winning his heat in 3:41.32, but to claim the title he will have to defeat Ethiopia’s Abdisa Fayisa, who tops the entries with the 3:32.37 he ran to win the Ethiopian Olympic Trials in June.

Fayisa then competed at the Paris Olympics, finishing 14th in his 1500m heat and 10th in the repechage.

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