AMOS, JELE IN DIAMOND LEAGUE ACTION TONIGHT
Botswana runners Nijel Amos and Lydia Jele will this evening (8/6/17) battle it out in the #IAAF #DiamondLeague meet in #Rome.
Amos will return to the tracks after an injury lay off starting on lane 1 at 2040hrs. Jele will follow immediately at 2050hrs on lane 4. Watch it live on SS5 and SS9!
This would be the first Diamond league for 800 metres runner Amos this season and second competitive race after the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
His first race was on home soil in April during the Gaborone International Meet where he finished on position one with a time of 1:47.72.
Amos will be against Kenyan’s Kipyegon Bett, Job Kinyor, Alfred Kipketer, Kiplangat Kipkoech, Ferguson Rotich and Motonei Manangoi as well as American Donavan Brazier, Polish Adam Kszczot and Marcin Lewandowski, Denmark sprinter Andreas Bube, and Canadian Brandon McBride
.
As for Jele, she will be making her debut at the league, and equally she will be facing stiff competition from the likes of Jamaicans, Stephenie McPherson and Novlene Williams-
Mills, USA’s Natasha Hastings, Italian Maria Benedicta Chigbolu and Floria Guei from France.
Switzerland will be represented by Léa Sprunger while Poland will bank on Justyna Swięty and from Ukraine there is Olha ZemlYak.
Best Of Luck To TeamBW
