Team Kenya men's 4x100m closer to World Championships qualification ahead of deadline

Kenya’s 4x100m men’s relay team is getting closer to making a debut at this year’s World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

According to World Athletics, there are 16 slots for the relay teams and so far, only eight slots have been filled, automatically.

The first eight placed teams at the 2022 World Athletics Championships have automatically qualified and they include Canada, the USA, Great Britain, Jamaica, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil, and France in the Men’s 4x100m, and the USA, Jamaica, Germany, Nigeria, Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy in the Women's 4x100m.

USA, Jamaica, Belgium, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, Botswana, France, Czech Republic (Men's 4x400m), and USA, Jamaica, Great Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland (Women's 4x400m) while in the Mixed 4x400m Dominican Republic, Netherlands, USA, Poland, Jamaica, Nigeria, Italy, Ireland have also made the cut automatically.

For the remaining eight slots, teams have to be among the best-ranked at the end of the qualification period and this will be courtesy of their remarkable performances during the whole qualification period. The qualification process already started on July 31, 2022, and closes on July 20, 2023.

Kenya’s 4x100m relay team comprises Africa’s fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala, Boniface Mweresa, Hesbon Ochieng, and Samwel Chege. They are currently ranked eighth overall by World Athletics and fingers are crossed that between now and July 20, they will rise through the ranks.

They were in action at the International Athletics Meeting of the Province of Liege which ended on July 12 and finished second in the mixed relay behind Spain.

Their hard work and labor are paying off well and Kenya might just be sending a relay team to this year’s edition of the event.