Simbine wins 100m event in Stockholm, happy with progress towards Budapest Worlds
South Africa’s won for the third straight time and seven in 11 races overall after storming home first at the BAUHAUS-Galan Diamond League meeting at the
Olympiastadion in Stockholm Sunday evening.
The 29 year old ran 10.03 to win ahead of Reece Prescod of Great Britain (10.14) and Germany’s Joshua Hartmann (10.23) and believes she is on course in his
preparations for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
He said after the race: ‘It seems like a good season. Towards the World Championships, I am satisfied with the results and the training so far. I just wanted the win here and I got it so glad at the moment and let´s go building up on it.
In such conditions, I think the time was fast. If the conditions are ideal, it means it could be a very very fast time – somewhere around my personal best ( 9.84) but we leave that for the World Championships.
‘I have a two weeks break now, I go back to training and then get ready for the Silesia DL. I do not like rain, I was cold. I just went there and ran.’
Simbine is one of the favourites to make the 100m podium in Budapest after one fourth placed and two fifth placed finishes.
