Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya announced on Friday she will try to compete in the 200 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her announcement came after she clocked a new personal best of 23.49 at the North Gauteng Championships in Pretoria Friday evening. The Olympic qualifying standard is 22.60.
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South Africa's Akani Simbine clocked 9.91 in his first in 2020 at the Athletics Gauteng North Championships on Friday. At the last year's World Athletics Championships in Doha, Simbine just missed the podium by finishing 4th in the 100m final.
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Cuba's Juan Miguel Echevarria set a new World-leading mark in the long jump of 8.41m in one of the last indoor track and field meet in Madrid, Spain on Saturday, March 7.
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The 15-year-old Matthew Volkov cleared huge 5.50m in the pole vault on Sunday, Feb.29 in Moscow. Volkov set a new World U16 pole vault record.
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