ANOTHER ONE-TWO FOR SA

keep her composure to deliver the goods.

South Africa’s hopes another sprint medal in the 200m came to nothing with national half-lap record-holder Clarence Munyai finishing his race in fourth place complaining of an injury he sustained in his semi-final the day before.

Munyai finished in a creditable fourth place in his first final at major senior championships after initially crossing the line fifth with a time of 20.58.

He got bumped up to fourth place after England’s Zharnel Hughes got disqualified for a lane infringement.

“I have a hamstring problem from yesterday’s semi-final and today I thought it would hold but going into the home straight I pulled up because I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep up with these guys,” Munyai said after the race.

Munyai’s injury would be a major blow to South Africa’s 4x100m relay team with Bruintjies, Emile Erasmus, Simbine, Anaso Jobodwana, and Antonio Alkana left to get the job done. Jobodwana’s name was initially pencilled in for the 200m final but was later disqualified.

He false started when he recorded a reaction time less than 0.100 seconds and instead of being shown the red card the referee flashed the green warning sign allowing him to get back into the blocks. Jobodwana finished the race in second place posting a time of 20.61 seconds to earn him a place in the final only to be told afterwards that he would be disqualified.

The South African team sent out a media release yesterday stating that it had filed an appeal, but the decision was upheld.

As for what South Africa have to look forward to, Caster Semenya marched through to today’s two-lap final and is on target to claim the rare 800-1 500m double at the Games winning her heat in 1:59.26.

Semenya looks almost certain to become only the third woman to win the double at the quadrennial showpiece.