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World champion heads to the Diamond League season finale looking to win her first crown and there are a number of reasons which makes her hot favourite for the lucrative prize.
World 800m champion Mary Moraa appears a shoo-in for the Diamond League Trophy plus the $30,000 (Ksh3,864,300) reward that comes with it at the season finale in Brussels.
Moraa heads to Brussels in scintillating form after winning three out of her four Diamond League races, with her only defeat being second place.
Crucially for ‘Kisii Express,’ two of her four wins have come after the Olympics, following victories in Lausanne and Zurich.
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Moraa had won in Doha before finishing second in Eugene, when Olympics champion Keely Hodgkinson, floored her as she settled for second.
The British woman would then run a dominant race to win Olympics gold as Moraa settled for third place behind Ethiopian Tsige Duguma.
However, Hodgkinson and Duguma will not be in Brussels on Friday when Moraa takes to the track for the Diamond League trophy, as the Briton who has been the woman to beat this season is nursing an injury.
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With American Athing Mu, another of her main rivals not in the picture this season, Moraa is left with runners she has consistently beaten in 2024, hence the optimism that the Diamond League Trophy will come to Kenya.
In Brussels, Moraa is up against Britain’s Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell, Natoya Goule-Toppin from Jamaica, Habitam Alemu from Ethiopia, Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi, Prudence Sekgodiso from South Africa, Noelie Yarigo from Benin and Frenchwoman Renelle Lamote.
Reekie heads to Brussels with the joint most points on the leaderboard but she is yet to win a Diamond League race this season, which bodes well for Moraa.
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