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Pretoria, South Africa 5000 m walk (track) 22:19.64 Nicolene Cronje: 5 March 2004 Durban, South Africa 5 km walk (road) 22:20 Nicolene Cronje: 5 March 2004 ABSA Series Durban, South Africa [86] 10,000 m walk (track) 47:32.54 A: Nicolene Cronje: 19 March 2005 Pretoria, South Africa 10 km walk (road) 45:05 Susan Vermeulen: 17 April 1999 ...
South Africa 4 June 2017 Boost Boston Games Boston, United States [6] 300 m: 30.69 A: Letsile Tebogo Botswana 17 February 2024 Simbine Curro Classic Shoot-Out Pretoria, South Africa [7] 400 m: 43.03 Wayde van Niekerk South Africa 14 August 2016 Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [8] 500 m (road) 57.69 David Rudisha Kenya 10 September 2016
Akani Simbine (born 21 September 1993) is a South African sprinter specialising in the 100 metres event. [1] He was fifth at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 metres and was the 100 metres African record holder with a time of 9.84 seconds set in July 2021 until broken by Ferdinand Omanyala in September 2021.
The rescheduling meant that the World Athletics Championships, originally set for 2021, was postponed given the presence of the Olympics in a World Championships year. Several other competitions were held in 2021 after being delayed from their usual schedule in 2020, including 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships .
South Africa 23 May 2021 Nedbank Runified Race Port Elizabeth, South Africa [92] [93] 100 km: 7:03:40 Sarah Webster Great Britain 2 April 2023 Anglo Celtic Plate 100k Craigavon, Northern Ireland [94] 24 hours (road) 247.985 km Joasia Zakrzewski Great Britain 18 September 2022 IAU 24 Hour European Championships Verona, Italy [95] [96] 100 m hurdles
Germiston, South Africa 16 years, 6 days [2] [3] 200 m: 20.43 (-0.4 m/s) Sinesipho Dambile South Africa 15 March 2019 AGN Youth, Junior & Senior Championships Pretoria, South Africa 17 years, 13 days [4] 20.32 NWI: Sinesipho Dambile South Africa 15 March 2019 Pretoria, South Africa 17 years, 13 days 400 m: 45.15 A: Riaan Dempers South Africa
South Africa 15 September 1999 1999 Games: Johannesburg, South Africa Pole vault: 4.35 m Miré Reinstorf South Africa 19 March 2024 2023 Games: Accra, Ghana [23] Long jump: 6.79 m Janice Josephs South Africa 21 July 2007 2007 Games: Algiers, Algeria [24] Triple jump: 14.70 m A: Françoise Mbango Etone Cameroon: 18 September 1999 1999 Games
Van Zyl set the South African record of 47.66 seconds at an athletics meeting in Pretoria on 25 February 2011, improving upon Llewellyn Herbert's former mark. [6] He made a large improvement upon his 400 m sprint best a month later, taking almost a second off his former best with a run of 44.86 sec at a Yellow Pages Series meeting. [7]