Fast friends gang up

10 July 2015 - 02:03
By David Isaacson

Tuks teammates Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjies share a house in Pretoria - and now they share the South African 100m record. Simbine bagged SA's first medal of the World Student Games in Gwangju, South Korea, yesterday as he clocked 9.97 seconds to equal Bruintjies's four-day-old mark. That time also goes down as a record for the university showpiece.

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