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OMANYALA SETS A NEW NATIONAL AND AFRICAN RECORD

OMANYALA SETS A NEW NATIONAL AND AFRICAN RECORD
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By Wayne Lumbasi

Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala continued with his fine form at the world indoor tour as he edged Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy in the men’s 60m dash at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais in Lievin, France.

Omanyala clocked 6.54 seconds, smashing his own national record of 6.55 seconds he had set just a week ago in Mondeville, France.

This was the first time Omanyala beat Jacobs, the Olympics 100m gold medallist. The Italian finished second in a season’s best 6.57 as Arthur Cisse from Cote d’Ivoire came third in 6.59.

It was a fitting climax to Omanyala’s World Athletics Indoor Tour, in which he won three events, broke his own national record twice, and finished second once.

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