The meet will be both a post-Olympic showcase of the world’s top track and field talent and also a teaser for the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
The men's event fared well for the Kenyans as Alocias Kipngetich and Peter Kithome both qualified to the next round in the 400M hurdles.
Morning action will have heats and heptathlon action with the afternoon session’s mostly finals kick off with the women’s javelin before the men’s pole vault, men’s shot put, heptathlon 800m, women’s discus, men’s 5000m, women’s 3000m, women’s 100m and men’s 100m.
It was far too late for the Kenyan duo when Ethiopian Tadese Worku illustrated poise, speed and confidence as he led the pack till the finish line.
The elite runners include Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, Ethiopia’s Getaneh Molla and Seifu Tura and the USA’s Keira D’Amato, Emma Bates, Chris Derrick, Sara Hall and Lindsay Flanagan.
Kenya’s Mercy Chebet finished in the 7th position with a personal best time of 12.39 seconds but will not be participating in the semis scheduled for 16:10hrs local time.
Chelangat managed to redeem herself after finishing and qualifying in second position with a time of 53.49
Sylvia Chelangat was found to have stepped on the white marker. This in turn forced the Kenyan team to be automatically disqualified
The opening ceremony was held on 17 August with Kenya's First Lady Margaret Kenyatta gracing the occasion.
Obiri got promoted to the rank of Senior Sergeant by the Chief Of Defense Forces, Robert Kibochi.
His spectacular performance at the Tokyo Olympics clocking 3:29.01 to bag a silver medal a drove president Uhuru Kenyatta to direct the Commissioner-General to promote the world champion.
On Tuesday, August 17, Athletics Kenya president, Jackson Tuwei, World athletics president Seb Coe and the event’s ambassador, David Rudisha, gave a press release officially welcoming the athletes and various stakeholders from around the world to the second largest track and field event to be held on African soil
During the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, Bakkali won a gold medal clocking 8:08.90. This made him the first non-Kenyan to win the Olympic gold medal in the 3,000 metres steeplechase since Poland’s Bronisław Malinowski won the title in Moscow in 1980.
Zakia Khudadadi, would have been the first woman to represent the country in the Paralympic Games.
the team was also awarded tokens of cash prizes for their pleasing performance at the just concluded Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai said that enough security teams have been mobilized
Omanyala yet again made history after shattering his own record at the Austrian Meet on Saturday, 14th of August
The Championships are only days away and preparations are being intensified by the hour. More to that, the Championships scheduled to be held in Nairobi, Kenya between 17-22 August will now begin one day later on Wednesday 18 August, finishing on Sunday 22 August.
The 23-year-old came into the limelight in 2014 after winning a gold medal in the 15000m under 3:41.99 during the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
The team consists of 26 athletes and 10 officials, half the number that competed during last month's European Junior Championships held in Tallinn, Estonia.
