SLOTS AT STAKE: Kitum keen to make Worlds team in trials

Kenya's David Rudisha (R) wins ahead of Kenya's Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich (L) in their semi-final of the men's 800m athletics event at Hampden Park during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on July 30, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS

Olympic 800m bronze medallist Timothy Kitum is confident of making the cut to the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships that run in the iconic Birds Nest Stadium from August 22-30.

Kitum, who basks in a 1:45.41 season best he set at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome, will take on Olympic and world 800m record holder David Rudisha, Commonwealth Games fourth-place Ferguson Rotich, Olympian Anthony Chemut, world junior 800m champion Alfred Kipketer and Job Kinyor.