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Simbine led the relay team to a second place finish in the final at the Stade de France.

South African 100 metre national record holder, Akani Simbine, has finally won an Olympic medal. The 30-year-old Simbine helped Team South Africa win silver in theSimbine led the four-by-four relay team to a second-place finish in the final at the Stade de France in Paris.

The team comprising of Simbine, Shaun Maswanganyi, Bradley Nkoana and Bayanda Walaza held on tight in their heat to make it to the final finishing line.Meanwhile, Canada won gold, followed by South Africa while Britain settled for the bronze. The race took a dramatic turn when the Americans made a poor exchange in the first handover that set them back to the eighth position.Slain EFF councillor Moshe Mphahlele’s funeral underway in Limpopo Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.

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