World 400m record-holder Wayde van Niekerk’s injury bogey striking again and ruling him out of this year’s SA National Track and Field Championships, which finished in Cape Town , will put him under pressure to qualify for the World Championships
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It’s a situation that seems to repeat itself each year for the 2016 Olympic champion, who also decided not to run at the national champs in Germiston, Johannesburg, in 2019 as a precaution because it was raining on the day. An uncharacteristically emotional Akani Simbine – who wagged a defiant finger at the end of his race – won the 100m title in a time of 10.31sec. Having set the Africa 100m record just last year, before losing it and the 100m race at the fourth ASA Grand Prix in Germiston to Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala, Simbine looked to have taken that a bit personally.But he is safe in the knowledge that the Africa record time of 9.84sec in Hungary last year has provisionally qualified him for Oregon.
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