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Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala is among top sprinters who have already clocked the entry standard for the 2025 World Championships with five Americans joining him.
Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala is among sprinters who have already hit the qualifying standard for the 2025 World Athletics Championships even though the event is still one year away.
The next World Championships will be held in Tokyo Japan from September 13-21, 2025 and sprinters have from August 1, 2024 to August 24, 2025 to hit the qualifying standards.
Men’s 100m entry standard is similar to the Olympics where athletes must clock at least 10 seconds between this period and Omanyala has done this three times already, having managed 10.00 at JOSKO Laufmeeting in Austria on August 17, before improving it to 9.95 at the same venue on the same day, and he managed 9.88 when finishing second at the Silesia Diamond League on August 25.
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Joining Omanyala in hitting this mark are five American sprinters led by world and Olympics champion Noah Lyles, who clocked 9.79 when winning Olympics gold, bronze medallist Fred Kerley, Kenny Bednarek, Christian Coleman and Courtney Lindsey.
Olympics silver medallist Kishane Thompson, Ackeem Blake and Oblique Seville are the Jamaicans who have already clocked 10 seconds or below with Benji Richardson and Akani Simbine the South Africans with the required times already.
Botswana sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo has already hit the qualifying standard this early same as former Olympics champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy as well as Canadian Andre de Grasse.
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However, this is not a guarantee that the named athletes will be in Tokyo as they will have to go through trials in their respective countries to seal their tickets.
Hitting the times will only help those from countries where a panel of selectors will settle on a third athlete, like Kenya, who might not perform well at the trials or miss the event over various factors.
However, for the Americans, only the top three across the line will make it as witnessed ahead of the Paris Olympics.
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[WATCH] Mary Moraa, Lestile Tebogo & Beatrice Chebet dance with joy after Diamond League victories
Lestile Tebogo, Beatrice Chebet, and Mary Moraa triumphed at the Zurich Diamond League, celebrating with dance and jubilation.
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