Wayde gets Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award nomination
South African sprinting sensation Wayde van Niekerk has been nominated for the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award. Van Niekerk blazed to a gold in the 2016 Rio Olympics in a blistering time of 43.03 secs to shatter Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old 400m record. Other nominees for the award are Ethiopian athlete Almaz Ayana‚ who broke 10‚000m world record by over 14 seconds to win Olympic gold and the Fiji men’s rugby sevens team whose victory in Rio gave the island state its first Olympic medal Also nominated is the Iceland men’s football team, which beat England 2-1 to reach the quarter-finals of Euro 2016; English football side Leicester City‚ whose odds of winning a title at the start of the division were a whopping 5‚000-1‚ which won the English Premier League for the first time; and German car racing driver Nico Rosberg, who won his first Formula One World Championship. Van Niekerk said: "I woke up every day‚ motivated to inspire my family and friends‚ but ended up with a...
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