African Athletics

Botswana’s Amantle Monsho won the women’s 300m at the season’s last IAAF Indoor Permit meet in Leivin France on Friday night.  

The Africa 400m champion covered the distance in 36.33 seconds. This is certainly a confidence boost ahead of her campaign at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha Qatar from next Friday

.William Biwott (3:37.85) delivered Africa’s other victory with Nickson Chepseda (3:38.17) ensuring a 1-2 Kenyan sweep. Competing in separate 300m heats Sudan’s Rabah Yousif  (33.04) and Morroccan Idrissi Zougari (36.56) finished fifth. Daniel Kipchirchir Komens of Kenya (7:42.71) was second in 3000m as Algerian Abelhamid Zerrifi (8:18.72) came in sixth.

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