Africa’s fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala recently broke the national 60 metres sprint record, again.
Omanyala did the 60 metres in 6.60 seconds at Meeting Metz Monselle Athlelor in Metz, France.
This comes just nine days after clocking 6.63 seconds on his 60 metres debut at Miramas Indoor Meeting in France.
The sprint broke a national record set by Paulvince Obuon, who clocked 6.70 seconds on January 28, 2005, at State College in the United States.
Ghanaian Leonard Myles-Mills holds the 60-metre African record at 6.45 seconds while United States’ Christian Cole holds the World Record at 6.34 seconds.
Omanyala is also the African 100-metre champion, having clocked 9.77 seconds on September 18, 2021.
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This was the fifth time he had broken the record. He initially entered the sub-zero club, clocking 9.96 seconds in August 2021 in Austria.
The only other Kenyan who had done a short 100-meter sprint in under 10 seconds was Kenya Defence Forces’ Maurice Wasike in 2017.
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Interestingly, Omanyala had started off as a rugby player in High School at the Friends School Kamusinga but opted to become a professional sprinter.
He has since been snapped up by the National Police Service and shall be incorporated into the General Service Unit’s elite Recce Squad.
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