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Omanyala beats Justin Gatlin, sets African record

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President Uhuru Kenyatta embraces Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala as Sports CS Amb. Amina Mohamed during The Kip Keino Classic-World Athletics Continental Tour 2021 at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi on September18, 2021. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

He has done it again!

The newly minted Kenyan sprint sensation Ferdinand Omanyala re-wrote history by lowering his 100m National Record by 9.77 at the second edition of Kip Keino Classic at Kasarani Stadium yesterday.

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