Ferdinand Omanyala Sets Fourth Fastest 200m Time of 2024 in Athletics Kenya Track Meet

• Ferdinand Omanyala is ramping up his preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics
• The reigning Commonwealth champion set the fourth fastest time this year in 200m
• Omanyala is looking to do the double 100m and 200m at the Paris Olympics

Commonwealth and African 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala has clocked the fourth fastest 200m time in 2024 in the third leg of Athletics Kenya Track and Field Meeting.

Ther Kenyan sprinter has started preparation for the busy 2024 season, which includes the Olympics and the Diamond League.

Omanyala clocked 20.46 seconds in one of the heats, beating former national 100m and 200m champions. Omanyala set the time with a tailwind of +0.4ms.

The Kenyan star has insisted before that he wants to run the 100m and 200m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, which starts in July.

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Omanyala was eliminated in the semis of the 100m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and will be looking to win Kenya's first-ever medal in the distance.

"It is the first time, though. My target was 20.50. Seconds. I will build on that and see if I will get to sub 20 at some point this year," he told Daily Nation.

The 28-year-old finished a disappointing 7th in the 2023 World Athletics Championships in August, clocking 10.07. America's Noah Lyles won the race.

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Sports Brief had earlier reported that former World Champion Christian Coleman stunned Noah Lyles to win the 2023 Diamond League final in Eugene on September 16.

Kenya's hero and Africa's fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala, finished third behind the Americans in his first-ever finals.

Coleman tied the world lead, clocking 9.83 seconds to beat Lyles' 9.85. Omanyala clocked a similar 9.85 but was adjudged to have been behind by a thousandth of a second by the photo-finish rule.

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Sports Brief also reported on Omanyala explaining what went wrong for him as he struggled to make the 100m podium.

He finished third in Heat 1 of the semi-final with a time of 10.02 seconds, meaning he qualified as the fastest loser, and the writing was on the wall.