Ferdinand Omanyala has bagged his first-ever major title in style after clocking 9.93 seconds to earn the victory in the Athletics African Championship games 100 meters race. The fastest man in Africa has now dethroned South Africa's Akani Simbine to be the new Athletics African championship 100 meters race champion. Omanyala is now on track to hand Kenya her first Africa 100 meter title after the photo finish race saw the Kenyan star break the record. However, Kenyans are eagerly waiting for ratification in regards to this matter before they embark on celebrating their star. Omanyala has become a rising star and a household name in the African high profile professional sports personnel circles. 

However, the Kenyan sprint sensation has had a tough sprint to stardom, enduring long training hours and painstaking exercise regimes. The 100 meters star has survived a 14-month ban from athletics that threatened to end his fledgling career after he unknowingly took medication that contained a banned steroid. He returned to the sport to a cold reception after the ban but was relentless nevertheless embarking on a journey to qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games which ended up being an emotional roller-coaster. He has then risen from the ashes of being banned from participating in the sport to becoming the fastest man on the African continent and is now the official African champion after his mighty sprint in Mauritius. 

He got into athletics sports in a dramatic manner as he was originally a rugby player. It was not until one of his friends noticed how fast he was with the rugby and advised him to try out the 100-meter racing sport that he gave a shot to a field that he has now risen to become the African ruler. To attend his first race in 2015, a broke Omanyala was given bus fare by his classmate Patricia to attend an athletics championship in Mumias. Fast-tracking to 2022, the 100-meter sensation has been left dreaming of breaking the 100 meters world record of 9.58 seconds that is currently held by Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt. But for the Kenyan, the future is luminous and impossibility is just but a myth.