Khotso to polish form at London Diamond league

South African world long-jump silver medallist Khotso Mokoena will be looking to hit the right form at the London Diamond League meeting today.

Mokoena, who has qualified for this month's World Championships, has had some indifferent performances of late, but is slowly but surely hitting good form.

He got through to the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, at the beginning of last month at the Paris Diamond League meeting.

The Olympic silver medallist had been in danger of not qualifying until the Paris meeting after South African long-jump pretender Luvo Manyonga bumped him out of the squad with an A-qualifying jump of 8.26m in Finland a week earlier.

Mokoena's best before Paris was a B-qualifying jump of 8.19m in Eugene, Oregon, early in June.

The South African, however, showed his temperament in Paris with a jump of 8.25m to book his place alongside Manyonga at the World Championships.

Today his fiercest competition will come from Australian Mitchell Watt, who launched himself into the position of favourite with a world-leading 8.54m at last weekend's Stockholm meeting.

He set a new Australian long-jump record in the process and could give Mokoena some motivation to reach his best form.

Mokoena relinquished his number one position on the Diamond League standings in the long jump to the Australian.

Watt finished third behind Mokoena at the previous World Championships and it seems the Australian could reverse the roles in Korea.