Sprinter Akani Simbine and hurdler Zeney van der Walt walked away with the two main prizes at Athletics South Africa’s inaugural awards function that turned into a marathon session.
Simbine, fifth at the 2022 world championships, took silver at the African championships and Commonwealth Games and won his fifth Diamond League crown in Stockholm last year.Van der Walt clocked a couple of personal bests during the season, winning continental gold in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay, and taking bronze at Birmingham 2022.
And Sport SA president Barry Hendricks reiterated that the umbrella organisation had secured a R66m sponsorship from a corporate that is yet to be named, but he added the caveat that most of that money, to be received over four years, would go to the athletes through their Operation Excellence funding programme.The event lasted far longer than the 2 hr 40 min 13 sec 50km world record set by Stephen Mokoka, one of Simbine’s rivals for the top male athlete trophy.
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