ITEN, Kenya: Olympic 800 metres champion and world record-holder David Rudisha will miss the remainder of the season and is unlikely to race again until at least March next year, the Kenyan athlete’s coach has said.
Rudisha pulled out of next month’s World Championships in Moscow after failing to recover from a knee injury that will prevent him from defending his 800m crown at the August 10-18 event.
His coach, Colm O’Connell said the 2011 Daegu world champion contemplated racing at Diamond League events in Zurich in late August or in Brussels in September but chose against rushing back from injury.
“We considered it but felt it was better to give him enough time to recover,” O’Connell said from his base in Iten, a small village in Kenya’s Rift Valley area that is the home to many of the country’s middle and long-distance champion runners.
“His knee is actually already healing but Moscow came a bit too soon.” REUTERS
