Our world champion Femi Ogunode achieved a good mark of 9.93 seconds in the 100m, taking first place at the Rieti international athletics meeting in Italy, ahead of Jamaica’s Nesta Carter (10.06) and Julian Forte (10.09); our world champion had earlier taken first place in the 200m at the Brussels Diamond League meeting and broken the Asian record in a fine and outstanding achievement. In the 800m, our talented champion Musaab Abdelrahman Balla finished second in a time of 1:45.13, behind Poland’s Adam Kszczot, the Beijing World Championships silver medallist (1:44.82), and ahead of Morocco’s Amine El Manaoui (1:45.20). Algeria’s runner Taoufik Makhloufi, the London 2012 Olympic champion and fourth-placer at the Beijing World Championships, took first place in the 1500m in a time of 3:35.53, while Morocco’s Amine Laalou finished third (3:37.88).
