The Diamond League finals are spread over two days, and there will be plenty Kenyan attention on the first day, including Omanyala and Kipyegon.
Here is the Kenyan timetable for the opening day of the Finals.
10:29pm – 3,000m steeplechase women
Table leader Beatrice Chepkoech, Faith Cherotich and Jackline Chepkoech will lead the Kenyan hunt in the race and once again, it is billed to be another battle with recently crowned World Champion Winfred Mutile Yavi, the Kenyan-turned Bahraini.
Yavi beat the Kenyan trio in Budapest three weeks ago and followed that up with another victory in Zurich.
But in the final, it promises to be another intense battle between her and Chepkoech, who looks to solidify her lead.
It will be an intense battle with the Ethiopian duo of Sembo Almayew and Zerfe Wondemagegn also lining up, in what promises to be a cracking battle for the Diamond Trophy.
10:51pm – 1500m women
Faith Kipyegon is definitely the woman of the moment and she will be the athlete in focus when the gun sounds in this race. She has set the world record, won the World Championship and has won all three of her events in the race in Doha, Italy and Monaco (mile).
She is ranked third in the standings, but mostly due to the fact that she hasn’t raced in all 1500m races in the circuit, but racing in a winner-take-it-all final puts her top of the agenda.
In a competitive field of 13, she will be the only Kenyan, but surrounded with a huge group of perennial competitors including Britain’s Laura Muir, Linden Hall and Jessica Hull of Australia as well as Ethiopia’s Hailu Freweyni.
11:07pm – 100m men
After his disappointing outing at the World Championships, Ferdinand Omanyala made amends with a well worked win in the Zagreb Continental Gold Tour event, where he clocked 9.94 last weekend.
It was a positive preparation for this weekend’s heavily loaded Diamond Trophy final in Eugene, where he is expected to compete more or less against the same field he competed with at the Worlds in Budapest where he finished seventh.
He sits second in the Diamond League standings with 28 points, one behind American Fred Kerley.
He has competed in for Diamond League events this season, clinching his first ever win in Monaco and earning a pair of second place finishes in Italy and Paris, and finished third in Monaco.
On the line in Eugene on Saturday night, the line-up will be star-studded.
Kerley, who failed to make the final of his title defense in Budapest will miss out, but the American duo of world champion Noah Lyles, Chris Coleman and Marvin Bracy-Williams will have the home track advantage, with Lyles particularly keen on ending his season in style.
He clinched three gold medals at the worlds, with the 100-200 double, then added on a 4x100m relay crown to his name.
Omanyala is keen to put a positive marker to the end of his season, and clinching the Diamond Trophy will perhaps be a better ending for him.
Also competing in the race is Botswana teen Letsile Tebogo, who last month became the first ever African to win a 100m medal at the Worlds.
11:19pm – Men’s steeplechase
With world and Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali missing from the line up, the Kenyan contingent will look to finally sit on the king’s crown this season, after playing second fiddle to the Moroccan most of the campaign.
Benjamin Kigen, World Championship bronze medalist Abraham Kibiwott and Simon Koech will line up, alongside a relatively manageable start list of 10 that is devoid of the other two medalists from Budapest.
Getnet Wale who finished 11th at the Worlds and Sime Abrham will provide the Ethiopian competition.
Kibiwott is the highest ranked in the Diamond League from the 10, having won in France and has a pair of second place finishes from Poland and Monaco.
