Africa and Commonwealth Games 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala is not worried that he will not be taking part in the 2022 Diamond League season.

The 26-year-old will not be featuring in the Lausanne leg  in Switzerland  on 26th August and Brussels, Belgium on 2nd September. That effectively rules him out of the season finale to be  hosted by Zurich on the 8th and 9th of September.

“ I didn’t participate because we focused more on the Oregon championship and Commonwealth games,” Omanyala told People Sport.

“Lausanne and Brussels will have only 200m,” explained Omanyala, well aware one needs to have accumulated points from the 13 meetings on four continents (Europe, Asia, North America, Africa) to be invited to the final in Zurich.

Perfect season

Omanyala will not sit idle though, he has three more races to wrap up what he has described as a perfect season.

Fresh from adding the Commonwealth Games title to his Africa crown in Birmingham, Omanyala, who is back in training, will compete at the Spitzen Leichtathletik, a World Athletics Continental Silver Tour on August 30 at Stadion Allmend, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Omanyala will then cross over to Germany for the 2022 ISTAF, another World Athletics Continental Silver Tour event on September 4 at Olympiastadion Berlin.

The Africa 100m record holder will then end his season with the World Athletics Continental Gold Tour, the Memorial Borisa Hanžekovića on September 9 to 11 at Sports Park Mladost, Zagreb, Croatia.

“For me it was a perfect pro season, having achieved most of my goals,” said Omanyala, explaining that being crowned African and Commonwealth champion besides winning the Kip Keino Classic within three months was phenomenal.

“Winning both titles is simply memorable. Almost every race produced good memories because I love what I do,” said Omanyala, who regretted not having reached the final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.