We Regret To Announce The Tragic Demise Elaine Thompson-Herah @31 Ferguson Rotich and Vivian Chebet are determined to win more at the Paavo Nurmi Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold competition, in Turku on Tuesday, June 18. They have moved over their Olympic disappointments.
Despite their best efforts, neither athlete was able to secure a spot on the Olympic team due to the competitive fields that were drawn. Rotich, the silver medallist from the Olympics, came in fourth in the trials.
Wycliffe Kinyamal, Koitatoi Kidali, and Emmanuel Wanyonyi will now represent the men’s 800m. In the meantime, Chebet placed fifth in the 800-meter women’s race, which Lilian Odira won.
Mary Moraa, the current world champion, and Sarah Moraa, who hasn’t yet reached the time, will be competing at the Africa Senior Athletics Championships alongside Odira.
Rotich will face Gabriel Tual of France, who just won the gold medal at the European Championships. World bronze medallist Ben Pattison and silver medallist Andreas Kramer will also compete.
With Slovakia’s Gabriela Gajanova, the silver Medallist in Europe, and Australians Catriona Bisset and Claudia Hollingsworth competing against Chebet, the women’s event is expected to be highly competitive as well.
In the meantime, two-time global silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts will compete in the women’s triple jump against European silver medallist Tugba Danismaz. Rasmus Magi of Estonia will also face Wilfried Happio and Berke Akcam of Turkey, returning to the location of his two-year-old 400-meter hurdles personal best.
In other events, two-time world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada, world leader Max Dehning of Germany, 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago, and world silver medallist Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan will compete against world and Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra.
