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Simbine shatters SA and Africa 100m record─── MORGAN PIEK 09:02 Wed, 07 Jul 2021
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South Africa's sprint sensation, Akani Simbine, has announced himself as a medal hope for the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo by breaking the national men's 100m record.
The world's second ranked sprinter broke the South African and African record yesterday during Gyulai István Memorial Meeting in Hungary, by running 9.84 seconds.
In the process of shaving 0.05 seconds of his personal best, Simbine, also beat the world number one, Justin Gatlin of the USA, as well as Michael Rodgers and Marvin Bracy.
The previous African record of 9.85 seconds was held by Nigeria's Olusoji Fasuba and stood for 15 years.
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