Commonwealth Games and Africa 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala has urged fans to come out in large numbers to fill the Moi International Sports Stadium Kasarani during the Kip Keino classic scheduled for May.
Omanyala confirmed that he will be heading to South Africa on March 26 for a six-week training camp before he competes at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix on April 29.
The African champion beat American world champion Fred Kerley to win last year’s Kip Keino Classic and will be joined by women’s world 100m champion Shelly-Anne Fraser-Price of Jamaica in this year’s competition.
This year’s Kip Keino Classic, a Continental Tour Gold event will be held on May 13.
“I’m going to South Africa and I’ll be there for a special training camp for six weeks and I’ll have a competition on the 12th, 19th and 29th.
“I will be at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix and then I’ll come to Kenya for the Kip Keino Classic on the 13th of May. By the way this time around we have to fill the stadium to full capacity,” Omanyala said.
This year’s World Athletics Continental Tour includes 14 Gold level events spread across five of the six continental areas.
The action kicked off in Melbourne, Australia, on 23 February and will end at the Memorial Borisa Hanzekovica in Zagreb, Croatia on 8-10 September.
Other athletes already announced for Tour events include Mondo Duplantis for the Ostrava Golden Spike on 27 June, and Femke Bol and Lieke Klaver for the FBK Games on 4 June.
