Former national 100m record-holder Henricho Bruintjies bounced back with his best run in two years on Tuesday night as he clocked 10.06 seconds to finish second at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland. Bruintjies hadn’t been that fast since his 9.97 seconds in Switzerland in July 2015 to take ownership of the South African record. His feat in Turku on Tuesday night matched his previous fastest time from Prague a month before his South African run, with both 10.06 efforts coming with a 1.5m/s tail wind. Bruintjies’s 9.97 South African record was equalled a few days later by Akani Simbine while winning the 2015 World Student Games title‚ but since then‚ the two sprinters have travelled vastly different roads. Simbine has dipped below 10 seconds 11 times since then‚ taking his career tally to 13. He has lowered the South African record to 9.89‚ finished fifth at the Rio Olympics and scored a maiden Diamond League victory earlier this season. During that time, Bruintjies hadn’t been below 1...
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