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Kenya’s Mary Waithera Njoroge competes in the Women’s 1500m T11 with the help of her guide Bernard Korir during the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Games at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Sunday, August 29, 2021. [Team Kenya Paralympics]
Nancy Koech held her nerve in 1500m T11 Heat 2 amid what she described as ‘suffocating conditions’ to finish strongly and qualify for the 1500m T11 finals to be staged Monday.
Although Koech finished fourth in heat 2, her time of 4:51.68 was good enough thanks to the last 100m scrap orchestrated by Susan Rodriquez (4:51.38) and Joanna Mazur of Poland (4:51.67).
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