Kenyan teams set to feature strongly at minor events at World Athletics Relays

Kenya set to feature at World Athletics Relays

JOHANNESBURG, April 28 (ANA) – Kenya could feature strongly in the non-championship qualifiers of the World Athletics Relays Silesia 21, in Poland, this weekend.

In the men’s 4x200m relay, Kenya has a surprisingly solid record in this event at the World Relays, having placed fourth in 2019 and fifth in 2014. Mark Odhiambo, who featured on Kenya’s team in 2017 and 2019, is back for his third World Relays performance and is fresh from a recent 10.11 100m PB.

In the mixed (men and women) 2x2x400m, Kenya has also named a strong line-up for this event, featuring world 800m bronze medallist Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich, Commonwealth 800m champion Wyclife Kinyamal and 1:58.04 performer Emily Tuei.

Just two of those will compete, of course, and the race will all boil down to who has best distributed their energy between their two 400m efforts.

In the mixed shuttle hurdles, Kenya is the third team entered, though their best hopes of relay success in Silesia lie in other events.

One of the newest disciplines on the World Relays programme, the shuttle hurdles relay features two men and two women on each team, running 110m legs.

The race begins with the women running their standard 100m hurdles race from the finish line towards the traditional start, but running an extra 10 metres at the end of their leg to account for the extra distance.

They will then change over to the first man on the team who will run the standard 110m back up the straight in the adjacent lane and then change over to the second woman, who in turn will change over the second man who will run the anchor leg. – African News Agency (ANA), Editing by Michael Sherman