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Oscar breaks 100 metres world record

Thursday, 05 April 2007

South African sprint sensation Oscar Pistorius lit up the Nedbank Championships for the Physically Disabled when he shattered the world record in the 100 metres at the Germiston Stadium on Wednesday.

Oscar Pistorius

Pistorius also became the first double amputee sprinter to dip below the sub 11 seconds mark when he ran a time of 10.91 seconds.

“Oscar is ecstatic,” coach Ampie Louw explained. “He has been very down in the last few weeks with all the controversy around his bid to compete with the able-bodied athletes, but now he has proved to them once again how good he is.”

What makes this gold-medal feat all the more astonishing is that Pistorius’s focus has been on the 400 metres and the 200 metres, with the 20-year-old not looking to compete regularly in the 100 metres.

Pistorius will run the 200 metres on Thursday and the 400 metres on Friday.

The Pretoria University student is expected to win gold medals in both races and will look to break his 200 metres world record of 21.66 seconds and his 400 metres world record of 46.56 seconds.

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