'She was really hard to get,' Ferdinand Omanyala on how he met his wife

23 September 2021

•"I told him to give me his number but I never texted nor called. I then met him again in December and that's when we started communicating." - Lavender Omanyala

Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala has revealed how hard it was to get his wife Lavender to date him.

The couple met in 2016.

Speaking during an interview with Jeff Koinange, Lavender said she bumped into him at a hotel while enjoying her friends' company.

"We met at a sporting event in Nakuru in 2016. I had gone running for a company and so was he. We bumped into each other at a hotel where I was taking lunch with some friends. He approached me and asked for my number but I told him to give me his instead."