Blast from the past: Faf spearheads six-wicket thrashing of Australia
Today in SA sport history: September 6
06 September 2024 - 04:30
1960 — Malcolm Spence takes the 400m Olympic bronze at the Rome Games, with the first two runners breaking 45 seconds for the first time. Spence clocked 45.5 sec, just one-tenth of a second in front of India’s Milkha Singh. In front of him, American gold medallist Otis Davis and runner-up Carl Kaufmann of a united German team were credited with a world record 44.9 sec, separated in a photo finish. It would take just another eight years for the 44-second barrier to fall, and 50 years later the 43 second mark still stands unbreached, with the closest being Wayde van Niekerk’s 43.03 world record...
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