Athletics – Meeting de Székesfehérvár: Akani Simbine and André de Grasse take the 200m series

Published on : July 7, 2021 (Updated July 7, 2021) / Through AFU editorial staff
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Akani Simbine and André de Grasse reigned over the 200m series at the Székesfehérvár meeting (Hungary). South African Akani Simbine won the first series in the 200m in 20.25. A little earlier, he had realized the sensation in the 100m by setting a time of 9 ”84. This allowed him to afford the African record.

In the second series of the men’s 200m, André de Grasse won gold with a time of 19.97. The 26-year-old Canadian was respectively two and five hundredths ahead of Americans Kenny Bednarek (19 ”99) and Erriyon Knighton (20” 03).