The challenge for me as a coach will be good planning.

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Draped in his national flag in a growing number of international stadiums, the undoubted new star of South African Athletics became, at 24, a member of the Richard Mille family. Akani Simbine. Until then I was the one who taught him everything he knew about sprinting. I realised that Akani was not powerful enough as a sprinter so I specifically changed his programme to include more strength training.‘We were doing so for about three months before he set a new national junior record.

He wasn’t the first short-distance sprinter to do so.

Being one of the trailblazers of South African athletics seems to come naturally to Akani Simbine.Last weekend when the Tuks athlete outsprinted Justin Gatlin to win the 100 metre sprint at the Diamond League Meeting in Doha it was the third time this season that he’s set a first in South African athletics.

‘When Akani ran that 10.19 it changed my life as a coach. No other local sprinter has won the short sprint at a Diamond League Meeting.Simbine is also the first local sprinter to run two sub-10-second 100m races on the same day and the first to run a sub-10sec 100m race and sub-20 seconds in the 200m on the same day.Judging by Simbine’s performances so far it might not be at all far-fetched to predict that he’s capable of winning a medal at the World Championships in London.The Tuks athlete’s progress as sprinter over the last six years is remarkable. Here the world and Olympic 100m finalist and Commonwealth 100m champion talks passionately about his ability to run fast and what it means to him. Once he started racing internationally he became a student of sprinting and started to learn from the other athletes.‘I always say that training is training, for an athlete to be successful he needs to learn how to run. It was not only the time he ran but more importantly the build-up to the race. At least not for now.

In 2014 his best time was 10.02, in 2015 he ran 9.97 and last year he ran 9.89. He proved it at last year’s Olympic final in Rio where his reaction time out of the blocks was the fastest.

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The fact that South Africa's fastest sprinter was not doing so on a synthetic track did not matter. Because Akani trains and races at such a high intensity it is important to make sure that he takes proper breaks from time to time in order for his body to recover.’Prinsloo emphasised that the 200m is also important to him. In 2012 he set a new South African junior record, running 10.19 as part of Team South Africa at the Zone VI Games in Lusaka, Zambia.Apart for 2013 he has managed to improve his time each year. The official page of South African Olympic sprinter, Akani Simbine.

I consider it to be on par with the likes of Asafa Powell but he lost out big time over the first 20 metres.‘Akani’s start is now one of the best.

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The faster Akani Simbine runs this year, the bigger the potential headache he could create for Team SA's management at the Tokyo Olympics this year.

That started happening for Akani in 2013. 27K likes. Last weekend when the Tuks athlete outsprinted Justin Gatlin to win the 100 metre sprint at the Diamond League Meeting in Doha it was the third time this season that he’s set a first in South African athletics. ‘I realised during the South African Championships that we still need to work on Akani’s endurance for him to be able to run consistently good times in the 200. If Akani has a good start there are very few sprinters who will be able to beat him.’Prinsloo said that going forward it will all be about marginal gains for the Tuks sprinter.‘For him to become a consistent 9.90 sprinter we will have to work on small specific details. His best time so far this season is 9.92.Simbine’s coach, Werner Prinsloo views 2012 as his breakthrough year. Fastest man in South African history with record of 9.89 in the 100m. ‘We realszed that we needed to work on Akani’s start as internationally that was where he was losing races. Sprinting will never just be about running as fast as you can when the starter’s gun goes.’Prinsloo considers last year as the third breakthrough moment in Simbine becoming a world class sprinter. 2020 - All rights reserved I played many … “My first sprinting memories were at primary school, although back then I was pretty average and never won any races.


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