Elijah Manangoi. [Photo/The Star]
World 1,500m champion Elijah Manangoi of Kenya is focused on winning selection for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
Despite being the top-ranked athlete in the field, Manangoi will not take his foot off the acceleration as he seeks to retain his fort against any external aggression.
The Kenyan, who was 50th over 10k in the first leg of the Athletics Kenya Cross Country Series last weekend, said he will be happy to compete in his maiden Commonwealth Games in Australia in April.
The Games are only open to countries that were formerly colonized by Britain with Rwanda and Mozambique, the only exception.
“I intend to take part in the usual Diamond League where I want to win the Series this time around,” he said on Tuesday. “But the focus will be in the Commonwealth Games. It is the biggest of the season.”
But there is the small task of picking up the gauntlet and attack Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj world record set in 1998 of 3:26.00 in Rome on July 14.