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Akani Simbine shows his class as Team South Africa clinch gold at World Relays
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CAPE TOWN â Akani Simbine ran a storming anchor leg to help Team South Africa clinch the gold medal in the menâs 4x100m relay by the narrowest of margins at the World Relays in Poland on Sunday night.
National 100m champion Simbine received the baton from Clarence Munyai for the final leg with South Africa slightly behind Brazil.
The 27-year-old drifted further behind as he tried to secure the baton in his left hand, and it took at least another 30 or so metres for him to get into his full stride on a chilly night in Silesia.
Don’t mess up, then there will be a real chance to win a medal.
In a nutshell, that is what this weekend’s World Relay Championships in Silesia, Poland, will boil down to for the SA 4x100m men’s relay team. The team is incidentally all local athletes associated with TuksAthletics.
The gold medal is undoubtedly up for grabs after the USA and Jamaica announced they won’t be competing. Since the inception of the relay championships in 2014, the USA has twice won gold in the 4x100m men’s relay and Jamaica once. Brazil was victorious in 2019.