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High schoolhouse pupil and Olympic metallic medallist Bayanda Walaza blazed his mode to the World U20 rubric successful Lima to go South Africa's archetypal 100m champion successful the past of the championship.
South African teen speedster Bayanda Walaza has go the fastest teen successful the satellite aft storming to the 100m rubric astatine the World U20 Championships successful Lima, Peru.
On a acold nighttime successful Lima, Walaza was not denied his infinitesimal of stardom arsenic his phenomenal commencement saw him instrumentality power of the contention and held connected to the decorativeness enactment successful 10.19s (-0.9m/s).
Puripol Boonson of Thailand came into the last knowing helium would request an explosive commencement to situation the apical of the podium. Though helium didn't get retired rapidly capable to vie for the title, helium maintained his composure to decorativeness good and spot 2nd successful 10.22s, gaining the first-ever medal for his federation astatine the World U20 Championships.
While pre-championship favourite and Walaza's compatriot Bradley Nkoana settled for the bronze medal successful 10.26s.
Walaza's triumph is simply a historical 1 arsenic helium became the archetypal South African to triumph the 100m rubric successful the past of the title aft Benji Richardson came adjacent with a metallic medal 2 years agone successful Cali down Botswana's caller velocity icon Letsile Tebogo.
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The superb performances by the South African teenagers bode good for their men’s 4x100m squad successful Lima, peculiarly arsenic Walaza and Nkoana formed portion of their nation’s metallic medal-winning squad astatine the Paris Olympic Games.
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It besides shows that the African federation is brewing caller sets of sprinters to predominate the satellite years from present arsenic their prima sprinter Akani Simbine is adjacent to retirement, but tin spot his bequest volition beryllium passed connected to exceptional youngsters.
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