Wayde van Niekerk gives a shout of triumph after winning Silver in the 200m final after 6 days of gruesome consecutive racing! Amazing achievement from Van Niekerk individually bringing home 2 Medals for South Africa. Video by Run2Win Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Wayde van Niekerk wins 400m final with ease after the withdrawal of his main rival Isaac Makwala. Van Niekerk’s time of 43.98 was sufficient for victory with Steven Gardiner 2nd in 44.41 and Abdalelah Horoun 3rd in 44.48. Video by SPRINT KING Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
Wayde van Niekerk cruises to the 400m final, watching Baboloki Thebe all the way in the home straight before shutting down in the last 20m to win in 44.22. This will be the final of the championships with the 400m men in great form. Video by Track&Field 1 Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP.
Video by Sports4Life Photo by Valery HACHE AFP Wayde van Niekerk wins 400m in Monaco Diamond league with a new meeting record time of 43.73 seconds. Van Niekerk ran the first 200m extremely hard pushing to the shoulder of Makwala before the 200m mark but things didn’t all go his way with Makwala fighting…
The Zlata Tretra Ostra Golden Spike will be nothing short of breath taking with the biggest track athletes in the world participating and our very own Wayde van Niekerk will be one of the action attractions in this block buster of a line-up with the likes of Usain Bolt, David Rudisha and Mo Farah also…
[poll id=”2″] If you struggle to get your vote cast then please email your vote to adriaan@backtrack.co.za DAVID GATEBE Last year Gatebe had an amazing year. He won the Comrades marathon smashing the course record of the down run running a time of 5:18:13 breaking the 9 year old record of 5:19:49. Later he went on…
He is the World Champion He is the Olympic Champion He is the African Champion He is the first man to run sub 44, sub 20 and sub 10 He is the 3rd fastest man ever over 300m And now he is the WORLD RECORD HOLDER! Wayde van Niekerk once again made history when he…
