Akani Simbine sprinted to a third place in the 100 meters at last night’s Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Justin Gatlin (USA) won in 9.96s with Ben-Youssef Meite (Ivory Coast) second in 9.98s. Simbine was clocked at 9.99s while Henricho Bruintjies finished sixth in 10.15s.

The men’s 400m-hurdles race was won by Kariem Hussein (Switzerland) in a time of 48.79s. Cornel Fredericks who led up to the second last hurdle before running out of steam finished fifth in 49.32s. It is his second fastest time for the season. 
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LJ van Zyl finished 7th in 50.04s. According to Van Zyl he can only blame himself for the way his race played out. He started to struggle with his pace rhythm midway through the race.