Mwangangi favourite in 5,000m

World Indoor 3,000m champion Caleb Mwangangi is confident nothing will stop Kenya from reclaiming the men’s 5,000m title when the final goes down on Sunday.

Mwangangi, who is already being touted as the possible answer to Olympic and World 5,000m and 10,000m champion Mo Farah, said with the Briton missing one of them will win the title. Mwangangi vowed to deliver the title with World 5,000m bronze medallist Isaiah Kiplangat and Joseph Kitur.

Uganda’s Moses Kipsiro, who won both the 10,000m and 5,000m titles at the 2012 Delhi Games, is Kenya’s only threat.

“Believe you me Kipsiro won’t win it. The three of us are ready to ensure that happens,” said Mwangangi, the 2011 All Africa Games and 2012 Africa 1,500m champion.

Mwangangi has the best time this season in the field of 13:01.71 but its Kiplagat that has the best time of 12:48.64 followed by Kipsiro 12:50.72.

It’s at the Delhi Games that Kipsiro beat Eliud Kipchoge and Mark Kiptoo to gold before going on to win the 10,000m title that his compatriot Boniface Kiprop had won in 2006.

“We have our tactics. We know the kind of race we shall run and deliver the gold,” said Mwangangi, the 2010 World Junior Cross Country gold medallist.

Mwangangi (13:30.45) settled second behind Kitur (13:30.34) during the National Championships at Nyayo Stadium last weekend. Kiplangat was given a wild card after finishing fourth.

Kenya had dominated in three consecutive editions of the Games before Kipsiro rocked the boat winning in 2010 Delhi Games.