Akani Simbine breaks SA and African 100m record in Hungary

South African sprinter Akani Simbine is reaching peak form ahead of the Olympic Games in Tokyo as he obliterated the field in a 100m event at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial meet in Hungary on Tuesday.

Simbine sprinted home in a new South African record of 9.84 seconds and beat the African record of 9.85.

He finished well ahead of Michael Rogers (USA), who was second, stopping the clock on 10.00, while Marvin Bracy (USA) was third in a time of 10.02. 

Former world and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin finished sixth.

Simbine's effort was also a new meeting record.

After the results system rebooted, Simbine's time was corrected to 9.84 (1.2m/s)

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