By AYUMBA AYODI More by this AuthorThis week’s virtual Maurie Plant Memorial Race featuring “Team Cheruiyot” from Kenya will be the last event on the cards during “Impossible Games.”The race will be held starting at 9.40pm on Thursday. It will see “Team Cheruyot” from Kenya take on “Team Ingebrigtsen” from Norway over 2,000 metres, with “Team Cheruiyot” being stationed at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi and their opponents lining up at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway. “Team Cheruiyot,” led by reigning World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot, will also feature the 2017 world 1,500m champion Elijah Manang’oi, who is also the reigning Commonwealth champion, Africa Under-18 1,500m champion Vincent Keter, 2012 World Under-20 800m bronze medallist Edwin Melly and Timothy Sein. “Team Ingebrigtsen” will feature Ingebrigtsen brothers from Norway. World champion Daniel Stahl will compete in the discus, while two-time world 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm will attempt to break the world best in the 300m hurdles.

Source: Daily Nation June 08, 2020 03:45 UTC