Commonwealth Video games bronze medalist Boniface Mweresa is amazed by the emergence of a brand new era of sprinters within the nation.
Mweresa believes that these Gen Z sprinters are a drive to reckon and can wipe out those that have dominated the business for some time.
“There’s a new crop of sprinters which might be rising. These Gen Z group of sprinters are to not be joked with and it means we who’ve been doing this for lengthy must up our sport,” the 31-year-old mentioned.
Mweresa is certainly one of Kenya’s most skilled and lively sprinters, having first run on the Nationwide Faculties and College Championships in 2011.
As a 19-year-old teenager, he represented the nation on the 2012 London Olympics the place he was a part of the 4x400m relay staff that had been disqualified within the first spherical of the competitors.
He has additionally donned the nationwide singlet in numerous different worldwide competitions, together with 2012 World Junior Championships (Barcelona), 2015 World Relays (Bahamas), 2015 All Africa Video games (Brazzaville), 2016, 2017 and 2024 World Indoor Championships (Portland), 2016 African Championships (Durban), 2017 World Championships (London), 2018 Commonwealth Video games (Gold Coast), 2022 Commonwealth Video games (Birmingham), 2023 World Championships (Budapest), 2024 World Indoor Championships (Glasgow), 2024 African Championships (Douala) and the Paris Olympics.
This spectacular resume however, the veteran isn’t about to decelerate.
He hopes his passport will obtain extra stamps by travelling exterior to characterize the nation on this yr’s competitions, together with the World Championships in Tokyo.
Mweresa started his season on a flier with victory within the males’s 100m on the second leg of the Athletics Kenya (AK) Observe and Subject Weekend assembly in Thika on Saturday afternoon.
He timed 10.1 to chop the tape, forward of Dennis Mwai (10.2) and Isaac Omurwa (10.2) who got here second and third respectively.
Mweresa, a 400m specialist, was delighted to have gotten his season off the bottom in essentially the most good method.
“I used to be a bit sore at first however it’s a delight to begin the season with a win. It was a terrific race, total, regardless of the hiccups from the beginning,” the African Navy 400m champion mentioned.
He will likely be on the lookout for extra of the identical within the upcoming legs of the sequence.
