Gold medalist Nigerian Blessing Okagbare-Lghoteguonor (R) competes with South-African Carina Horn (L)during the women's 100 metres final of the Gyulai Istvan Memorial - Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix at the athletic center of Szekesfehervar, Hungary on July 4, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

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Carina Horn’s South African Record Time is ‘Gone with the Wind’ in France

South Africa’s Carina Horn flew to a new South African 100-metre best on Friday… but there was one big problem blowing in the wind – an illegal tailwind. Horn was running at the Sotteville les Rouen national meeting in France. She clocked 11.05, which is 0.05ec inside the current best, held jointly by herself and […]

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10-07-17 07:36
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Gold medalist Nigerian Blessing Okagbare-Lghoteguonor (R) competes with South-African Carina Horn (L)during the women's 100 metres final of the Gyulai Istvan Memorial - Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix at the athletic center of Szekesfehervar, Hungary on July 4, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

South Africa’s Carina Horn flew to a new South African 100-metre best on Friday… but there was one big problem blowing in the wind – an illegal tailwind.

Gold medalist Nigerian Blessing Okagbare-Lghoteguonor (R) competes with South-African Carina Horn (L)during the women’s 100 metres final of the Gyulai Istvan Memorial – Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix at the athletic center of Szekesfehervar, Hungary on July 4, 2017. / ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images

Horn was running at the Sotteville les Rouen national meeting in France.

She clocked 11.05, which is 0.05ec inside the current best, held jointly by herself and Evette de Klerk, the latter having first run it back in 1990.

The following wind in France was 2.6 metres per second, 0.6m/sec above the legal limit.

‘I only decided to go and race on Thursday,’ said Horn. ‘But the travelling was a nightmare. I was meant to fly from Austria to France at 10pm, and then it was cancelled. So I had to walk around what seemed like the entire airport and then stood in a queue for two and a half hours to get a flight the next day.

‘I only got back to the hotel at 1am and was up at 5am for my next flight. I got to Paris at 9am, then waited three hours at the airport, got to the hotel at 2pm and raced a few hours later.

‘But I’m still very happy with my actual race, if only that wind wasn’t so strong. That has to be one of my toughest travel schedules so far.’

 

Source: SASCOC.co.za