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African 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala was heroic yesterday after winning the Mondeville Indoor meeting in France with a new blistering 6.55secs record in the 60m race.

The Commonwealth Games champion lowered his previous mark of 6.57secs, also set in France last year, as he won his first race of the year.

His heroics also come six days after matching his personal best record over the 60m distance in Miramas, France.

During the heated final Omanyala edged out Ivorian Arthur Cisse who beat him in his first indoor meet last weekend in Miramas, where he clocked 6.60secs to finish fourth.

Cisse came in second in Mondeville, clocking 6.59secs with Charles Dobson of the United Kingdom clocking 6.61secsn to secure third position.

Omanyala had in the first heat run 6.63 in second place behind Great Britain’s Andrew Robertson before kicking himself on in the final.

“I’m great improvement and delighted of course with the results, given it was a fantastic race and I have envisioned to run below 6.60secs and that’s what I achieved,” Omanyala said.

Soon after the race in Mondeville, Omanyala will now shift his attention to the third Indoor meet in the French capital Paris on Saturday.

In other races of the Mondeville Meeting, Kenya’s Alex Ng’eno finished third in the men’s 800m final in 1:50.38 behind Javier Miron from Spain in 1:49.50 and Briton Daniel Rowden in 1:49.52.

Commonwealth Games 800m champion Mary Moraa was in Poland for her debut in the World Indoor Tour, where she managed to come in fourth, clocking 2:01:51 in the women’s category at Orlen Copernicus Cup at Arena, Toruń.

During the Poland’s meet World Indoor champion Mujinga Kambundji of Switzerland secured the victory in the women’s 60m dash a second-best 7.06 seconds to defeat home favorite Ewa Swoboda, who was second with a time of 7.11 and and USA’s Kayla White and Briton Daryll Neita, who were both credited with 7.13.