- Emmanuel Wanyonyi has disclosed that his main goal for the upcoming Tokyo World Athletics Championships 2025 is to qualify for the 800m final.
- Wanyonyi is one of the favorites to win a gold medal for Kenya at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships.
- Wanyonyi has won the 800m race in several Diamond League meetings this season.
In the sporting world, victory always tastes sweet, but for Kenyan ace Emmanuel Wanyonyi, it serves as fuel.
Fresh off a commanding victory at the London Diamond League 2025, Wanyonyi is channeling that inner psyche into his preparations for the highly anticipated World Athletics Championships.
Speaking after securing the 800m title at the London Diamond League on Saturday evening, Wanyonyi revealed that he is still training for the World Athletics Championships that is scheduled to be held in September in Tokyo, Japan.
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Emmanuel Wanyonyi on preparations for Tokyo World Athletics Championships 2025
According to the talented runner, he is still working on a few things ahead of the biggest event of the season.
“My training right now is at 80%, so I will be upping the training in the next few weeks and over the next races before Tokyo,” he commented.
Wanyonyi added that his primary goal is to qualify to the 800m final in the championships that will take place between September 13 and September 21.
“I need to get to the finals; then I think I can take any medal,” stated the runner who trains in the 2 Running Club in Kapsabet.
Wanyonyi, who won an 800m gold medal for Kenya at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, is one of the clear favorites to triumph in Tokyo.
However, that will not be easy since he is expected to come up against a strong field that will have the likes of the reigning world champion Marco Arop of Canada and Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati.
Emmanuel Wanyonyi’s brilliant Diamond League 2025 run
Nonetheless, his performances in recent Diamond League meetings including Monaco and London, will increase his confidence ahead of the showdown.
Wanyonyi won the London Diamond League title in a meeting record time of 1:42.00, overcoming a late charge from Arop.
He revealed during the post-race interview the tactic he used to deliver the impressive victory.
“I am feeling so happy to win today! The race was so good for me. Yeah, if you came to the race, it was very competitive. I felt in my mind that this race was very competitive, so I needed to run my best to win.
So, if I ran 600m and then Arop came and passed me in the last 200m, I said, ‘Okay, let’s go!’ because this 200m for me is too long,” explained Wanyonyi.
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