After helping to guide Kenya’s 4x100m relay team to the World Athletics Championships, sprinter Boniface Mweresa has now turned his eyes on individual targets, as he aims to qualify for his 400m specialty.
Mweresa was part of the Kenyan quartet that made history at the World Relay Championships last week, and he hopes to use that fuel that propelled the boys to history for his own ambition.
The 31-year old former African silver medalist failed to qualify for the last World Champs in Budapest and has told Telecomasia.net in an exclusive interview that he aims to make the wrongs right and make the cut, inspired by the relays qualification.
I want to focus purely now on qualifying for the 400. I was actually selected into the 4x100m relay team purely by accident because Mark Otieno got a late injury and I had to replace him but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. My ambition now is to use that confidence to battle for my own specialty race and I am quite confident I can make it. Looking at how I have started the season and the improvements I have made especially with my acceleration, I believe I can make it.
The qualification mark for the World Championships is 44.85secs, and he will need a huge performance to dip well below his current personal best which stands at 44.96secs set in 2022. This season, his fastest time is 45.85secs and he needs to shave one second off to earn his dream.
