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22 Sep, 14 tweets, 3 min read

On Saturday during the #KipKeinoClassic at Kasarani, Omanyala, the owner of the Kenyan record of 9.86sec set last month in Europe, faced the fastest man this year, Trayvon Bromell of the USA, who was keen to sign off the season in style after a disappointing #Olympics Games.

In that start list also was, easily the most accomplished runner in the field, Justin Gatlin, a multiple World Champion and Olympics gold medallist over the distance, and the fastest man ever to compete on Kenyan soil with a stupendous 9.74sec to his name.

@NationAfrica

No sooner had the announcement been made that the men’s 100m was about to start than the entire sports desk at @NationAfrica Centre got to their feet and moved closer to the giant TV screen in our corner of the newsroom. - Charles Nyende

It was 10 seconds of absolute madness. Pure magic. Glorious rapture. At the end of the race I found myself screaming, jumping up and down while thumping my chest with my fist like I had won a date with Miss Kenya.

The only other time I have ever reacted like this, in sports, was when Dennis Oliech scored with that thunderous strike for Harambee Stars against Cape Verde on July 5, 2003 at Kasarani that sent us to the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations finals. - Nyende

That 10 seconds of racing left every Kenyan who was watching breathless, spent like the runners on the track.
The aftermath reverberated around the athletic world for days. The winner, Bromell, had run a personal best and world lead time of 9.76sec. - Charles Nyende

It also made him the sixth fastest runner in history, jointly with compatriot Christian Coleman. Second placed Omanyala ran a new Kenyan and African record of 9.77sec to place himself number eight in the all-time list of fastest men in the world.

The two electrifying times by Bromell and Omanyala were the fastest achieved on Africa soil.

Breaking the African record is a major, major feat for Omanyala. The previous record of 9.84 sec was held by South African Akani Simbine, set just two months ago on July 6 at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial Meet at the Hungary.

Simbine had broken the record set by Nigerian Olusaji Fasuba way back in May 12, 2006 at the Doha Grand Prix. It had stood for 15 years!

No pundit of athletics in his or her right mind would have predicted that a Kenyan would hold this momentous continental record.

Frankie Fredericks, arguably Africa’s best sprinter ever, held the African 100m record of 9.85sec from July 3, 1996 until Fasuba claimed it 10 years later.

For Omanyala, at just 25 years, that mind boggling 10 seconds of work last Saturday has placed him at the pantheon of the all-time greats of sprinters.

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Ferdinand Omanyala is on track to becoming a genuine global sprints legend bit.ly/2XD6eNE by Charles Nyende for @NationAfrica

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