Sports
Michael Phelps (USA) has won the same number of Olympic gold
medals – 23 – as India, Nigeria, Egypt and Portugal combined.FASTEST 400 M
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Wayde van Niekerk (ZAF)
won the men’s 400 m final in 43.03 sec on 14 Aug,
smashing the 17-year-old record of 43.18 sec by
Michael Johnson (USA). Van Niekerk’s time was even
more amazing for the fact he set it in the outermost
lane 8, making it harder to see his competitors and
so judge the pace of his race properly.
On 12 Mar 2016, van Niekerk became the first
athlete to achieve the “sub-10,-20,-44”. He
recorded a time of 9.98 sec for the 100 m at the Free
State Championships in Bloemfontein, South Africa,
meaning that he had broken three notable sprint
barriers: running under 10 sec in the 100 m, under
20 sec in the 200 m and under 44 sec in the 400 m.
No other athlete has ever done this in competition.