How to watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Sha’Carri Richardson at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi - Full schedule
The Jamaican Olympic champion will kick off her season in Nairobi on 13 May while American sprinter Richardson runs her second 200m of the 2023 season.
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Expect superfast times at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi this weekend for the next World Athletics Continental Gold Tour stop .
Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will finally open her season in the women’s 100m, while Sha’Carri Richardson hopes to continue her superb running but in the 200m after her Diamond League opener in Doha.
Five-time 100m world champion Fraser-Pryce, who just won the 2023 Laureus Sportswoman of the Year on Monday (8 May), will line up for the first time this season.
The Jamaican opted out of the Grand Prix in Botswana, where Richardson ran the 200m, due to pressing family engagements. She will again open her season in Nairobi as she did in 2022 when she raced to the fastest time in the region of 10.67 seconds.
The triple Olympic gold medallist is the favourite to defend her Kip Keino Classic 100m title when she takes to the line against American Olympians Twanisha Terry, the reigning 4x100m relay champion, Daniels Teahna, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics 4x100m silver medallist, and Kenya’s sprint champion Maximilla Imali.
A toned-down Richardson seems to have found ‘peace’ as she eyes the podium at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
In Doha, she was devoid of her trademark flashy makeup, hair and racing kits.
The Texan, who had raced to a wind-aided 10.57 seconds in Florida last April, sped to her fifth sub 10.80 at the Diamond League opener. She beat a studded field including 2022 World Championships silver medallist Shericka Jackson and 2009 world champion Dina Asher-Smith, racing to a meet record of 10.67 seconds.
“I have got my peace back on my track and I’m not letting anything, or anybody take that anymore,” she said after blasting to the world lead in Doha.
Richardson’s definitely got her spring back too after missing out on the 2022 World Athletics Championships and the Tokyo 2020 in 2021 Games as she bared on a recent Instagram post after her Doha run.
"That's why I was going through the things I was going through, I was experiencing the things I was experiencing,” she said alluding to what has been helping her.
“The pain that I was feeling, that's why all of these things were happening to me and I know that now because I had to return back to my faith.
"I feel so much better. That's why y'all say, ‘I'm back!’ — I'm not back. I'm better."- Sha'Carri Richardson.
Despite losing the 200m at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix, she is the undoubted pick for the Nairobi run where two other Americans are scheduled to compete.
There’s 4x100m silver medallist Kyra Jefferson and Shannon Ray. Africa’s 200m champion Gina Bass and Alexandra Burghardt, the German sprinter and bobsledder are also confirmed for the women’s 200m.
It will be Richardson’s second 200m of the season after finishing second behind compatriot Kayla White on Saturday, 29 April in Gaborone.
The other sprint event that should excite is the men’s 100m where local star Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, who is the African champion, will be seeking to defend his title against the American pair of Olympic 200m silver medalist Kenneth Bednarek and world 100m silver medallist Marvin Bracy.
Olympic champion Filippo Tortu will compete for the first time since August 2022. He is one of the stars in the men's 200m that includes Aaron Brown, who was also on the podium of the 4x100m relay podium at the Tokyo Olympics with silver behind the Italians, American Kyree King, Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh and Isaac Makwala from Botswana.
World Continental Tour Gold Nairobi 2023
All times in East African Time (EAT). The main events are in bold.
Saturday 13 May - Kipkeino Classic schedule
- 10:00 – Long jump men
- 10:05 – Shot put men
- 12:30 – Javelin throw men
- 14:00 – 10,000m men
- 14:12 – Hammer throw women
- 14:38 – 400m hurdles women
- 14:48– 400m hurdles men
- 14:57 – 400m women
- 15:06 – 5000m women
- 15:30– 400m men
- 15:40 – 5000m men
- 15:45– High jump women
- 16:05 – 100m women
- 16:13 – 3000m SC men
- 16:26 – Hammer throw men
- 16:30 – 800m women
- 16:43 – 200m men
- 16:50– 1500m men
- 17:02 – 3000m SC women
- 17:23 – 200m women
- 17:31 – 800m men
- 17:40– 1500m women
- 17:54– 100m men
How to watch the 2023 Kip Keino Classic
Viewers in Africa can catch all the action at the Kip Keino Claasic live on SuperSport's TV broadcast channels and live streaming services. Athletics fans in Kenya can watch the action on NTV.