07 May 2024 | Athletics

Halima Nakaayi will start her international season at the Doha meeting of the Wanda Diamond League on Friday 10th May at Khalifa International Stadium.

The 29-year-old Ugandan middle-distance runner will be returning to track where she won her 800m world title in 2019.

Nakaayi has so far run in two major events this year. She won silver at the African Games in March clocking a time of 1:58.59 but was a second slower at the Kip Keino Classic last month where she posted 1:59.89.

In Doha, Nakaayi will be joined on the line by 2023 world champion Mary Moraa of Kenya and veteran Natoya Goule-Toppin of Jamaica as well as Great Britain's Jemma Reekie who will be running at her first major event this year.

Moraa goes into the race as the favourite but Nakaayi, Reekie and Goule-Toppin will pose a challenge for that top spot as will Ethiopia's Habitam Alemu.

Race time is 7:13 pm, EAT

Meanwhile, another Ugandan runner Loyce Chekwemoi will compete in the women's 5000m at the meet.

Chekwemoi was second runner-up at the National Cross Country Championship held in Tororo in February this year. She also competed in the women's senior event at the 45th World Cross Country Championship in March finishing 9th.

It will be the first 5000m race for the 17-year-old who has been largely competing in the 3000m Steeplechase in her youth career.

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