Veteran LJ van Zyl was the best of the four South Africans in action at Tuesday night’s Memorial Borisa Hanzekovica meeting in Zagreb, Croatia.

The three-time Olympian, having turned 32 last month, took the third spot in the men’s 400-metre hurdles.
The winner was Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba in 48.70sec from British Virgin Islands athlete Kyron McMaster in 49.49.

Pretoria’s Van Zyl clocked 49.69.

‘That was a flipping nice race,’ enthused Van Zyl to Team SA after his race. ‘There were a couple of big names behind me tonight.

‘It’s another sub-50sec finish for me and a nice solid third place.
‘So I’m very happy with my performance, but am also happy to be going home now.
‘I’m definitely going to take a few days off to rest, but then it’s back to training for next year’s Commonwealth Games in Australia.

‘I have no idea what the qualifying criteria are at this stage, but it makes no difference, I’m ready to tackle them.’

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