Ferdinand Omanyala Breaks Record After Beating the Italian Champion Jacobs

Africa's fastest sprinter, Ferdinand Omanyala has yet again amazed the world by beating the Italian champion Marcell Lamont Jacobs in the 60m finals at a meeting in Lievin, France on Wednesday.

This was Omanyala’s first win against the 2020 Olympics 100 meters champion, Jacobs, clocking his best time of 6.54 seconds. The Italian champion came in second after clocking his best time of 6.57 seconds while Arthur Cisse from Cote d’Ivoire came in third at 6.59 seconds.

This was definitely a comeback from Omanyala since Jacobs beat him in the same event last year, after clocking his personal best at 6.50 seconds as Omanyala settled fourth after clocking a national record time of 6.57 seconds.

It was a great victory for Omanyala at the start of the year when he won 3 events consecutively breaking his record twice and positioning himself second in one of the events.

The celebrated sprinter came in second at the elite indoor track Miramas meeting on February 3^rd after timing 6.60 seconds before he won the Mondeville meeting on February 8^th clocking 6.55 seconds.

 He then availed himself at the meeting in Paris on February 11^th clocking 6.56 seconds where he missed his own national record by 0.1 seconds

Mary Moraa on the other hand improved after she came in second in the women’s 800m clocking 2; 00; 61 behind the British champion Keely Hodgkinson who clocked the leading time of 1:57:71.