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Wayde's African record lasts a day─── 09:01 Mon, 06 Jul 2015
Wayde van Niekerk’s 400m African record has been shattered barely 24 hours after the Bloemfontein sprinting sensation clocked the new national record at the Paris leg of the Diamond League on Saturday evening.
He won the men's 400m in 43.97 seconds to shave 0.28 seconds off his previous best he set in New York last month and in the process became the first African sprinter to break the sub 44 second barrier.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala however had ideas of this own and reclaimed his continental record over the distance in Switzerland yesterday.
Makwala sent the new African record at 43.72 seconds leaving possible head-to-head between to the two speedsters at next months’ IAAF World Championship in Bejing, China.
Following his race on Saturday evening, Van Niekerk conceded that his 400m is still a work in progress.
Crowing record-breaking and somewhat of a golden week for South African sprinting, Henricho Bruintjies set a new national mark in the men's 100m in Switzerland as well yesterday.
Bruintjies shaved 0.01 seconds off the previous South African record of 9.98 seconds held by the banned Simon Magakwe.
Morgan Piek / OFM News
