Who remembers Wayde van Niekerk's world record, Olympic gold-medal run in 2016? The day that even the great Usain Bolt stood in disbelief? And did you know that he is Cheslin Kolbe's cousin? In the 2016 Olympic Games men's 400 m, Van Niekerk won the gold medal with a world record time of 43.03 seconds, beating the time of 43.18 seconds set by Michael Johnson in 1999. In 2017, after a 30.81 seconds victory in the seldom-run 300 metres distance, breaking Michael Johnson's world-best time of 30.85

5.7K views · 218 reactions | "Hopefully it'll inspire other young athletes to come and do 400 metres because it'd be great to have a 4x400m team at the Olympics."  Ciaran Carthy, Adam Hughes, Jack Raftery and David Ryan do their nation proud with sixth in a European final - 3:11.51. | Athletics Ireland | Facebook