The men's 100m sprint is a highlight of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Akani Simbine hopes to improve on his fourth place in Tokyo three years ago.
Team SA has three representatives in the 100m semi-finals, a blue-chip event at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Akani Simbine hopes to improve on his fourth place in Tokyo three years ago.South African sprint sensation Akani Simbine ran a time of 9.93 seconds at Tokyo 2020 in the 100m final. That meant he missed a bronze medal by a heartbreaking four-hundredths of a second behind Canada’s Andre De Grasse.
However, there are dangerous contenders everywhere you look including Jamaican Oblique Seville and reigning Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs from Italy. There’s a strong African presence in. Alongside him is Liberia’s Emmanuel Matadi, Nigeria’s Kayinsola Ajayi and Letsile Tebogo from Botswana. Simbine is the senior man out of Team SA’s three candidates in the semi-finals. The others are 20-year-old Benjamin Richardson and 23-year-old Shaun Maswanganyi.
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