Olympic silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot hopes to make amends during the 11th leg of the Lausanne Diamond League set for Switzerland on Friday.

The three-time champion, goes to the race with a personal best of 3:28.28 which he registered got at this event in 2019 where he took the honors.

Cheruiyot will fight for the honors alongside his two compatriots, the World Indoor bronze medallist, Abel Kipsang, the twelfth fastest athlete over the distance in the world Kamar Etiang and the 2019 All-African Games Bronze medallist, Charles Cheboi.

“My training has been going on well and iam ready for the challenge even though I had a hamstring injury but the situation has improved,” Cheruiyot said.

Cheruiyot has been beaten by Kipsang severally this year including at the Doha Diamond League Meeting and the Kenyan trials to the World championships.

The Rongai Athletics Club based athlete will battle the recently crowned world 1,500m champion Jake Wightman and Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigstsen.

Wightman took the world title when he went under the 3:30 mark with a personal best of 3:29.23 beating the Norwegian to second in 3:29.47 with Cheruiyot finishing a distant sixth in 3:30.69.

Cheruiyot who is coached by Bernard Ouma of Rongai Athletics Club was beaten to second place at the just concluded Commonwealth Games by Australian Oliver Hoare with Wightman finishing in third, and will be looking to redeem himself as he chases this year’s Diamond League title which if he wins will be his fourth.

In 2019 Cheruiyot set a world-leading time at the same venue after he posted an impressive 3:28.77 mark ahead of Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway who clocked 3:30.82.Djiboutian Ayanleh Souleiman (3:30.79) and Filip Ingebrigtsen (3:30.82) came third and fourth as Uganda’s Ronald Musagala returned fifth in national record of 3:31.33.

After Lausanne the meeting heads to Brussels in Belgium on September 2 and concluded with a single final across two days in Zurich from September 7 to 8.The 2022 Wanda Diamond League comprises 13 meetings in total, starting with Doha at the Qatar Sports Club on May 13.