Bayanda Walaza and Bradley Nkoana earned gold and bronze medals in the 100m final at the World Athletics U-20 Championships.
Bradley Nkoana and Bayanda Walaza have added World Athletics U-20 Championships medals to their Olympic relay medals. Picture: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images
Fresh off their medal-winning performance at the Paris Olympics, junior sprinters Bayanda Walaza and Bradley Nkoana returned to the podium at the World Athletics U-20 Championships in Peru in the early hours of Thursday morning . Walaza and Nkoana, who formed part of the SA 4x100m relay team that earned silver at the Paris Games earlier this month, lived up to the hype after qualifying among the favourites for the men’s 100m final at the age group showpiece.took fifth place in 11.57, improving on her sixth-place finish at the previous edition of the World U-20 Championships in Cali in 2022.“At this point it feels great to be Walaza. I have mixed emotions – excited, happy, there’s a lot.
The SA team were lying third in the overall table with three medals after two days of competition at the Aside from Walaza and Nkoana, JL van Rensburg earned silver in the men’s shot put on day one with a personal best heave of 20.74 metres.
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