CHARL du Toit and Fanie van der Merwe banked Team SA’s third and fourth medals of the Paralympic Games in Rio on Sunday as they ran to first and third place in the T37 100m final.And 10 minutes after their gold-bronze sprint final it was Stellenbosch training partner Ilse Hayes who scorched to silver in the women’s T13 100m final to make it five for SA in this Games campaign.Du Toit, who broke the world record in the semifinals with a barnstorming 11.42sec, came from behind to take gold from Egypt’s Mostafa Mohamed in 11.45sec.He kept his cool to run a beautifully controlled race, overtaking his continental counterpart with about 25m to run."I didn’t get the best of starts, the Egyptian guy was flying — hats off to him."But I kept my control and at about 70m I knew I was in the mix. I had to really work for this one."Van der Merwe, the 2012 Paralympic champion in this event finished strongly to be credited with the same time as Mohamed in what will be his final Paralympics.Hayes roc...
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