Both Wenda Nel and Akani Simbine qualified for the World Championships in Beijing at the Athletics Gauteng North Championships at Tuks last night.

Nel was impressive in the 400-hurdles winning in a time of 55.20s. Myrtle Bothma (53.47s) and Surita Febbraio (54.05s) are the only South Africans to have run faster times.

Simbine set a personal best time by winning the 200m in 20.27s, proving again that he is in excellent form at the moment. 

They now join LJ van Zyl who won the 400-hurdles on Thursday night in Sasolburg in 49.26s and in doing so qualified for a second time for the World Championships.

Other results:

Duwayne Boer won the long jump with a distance of 7.63m.