Fresh from winning another 400m race at the IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting in Dakar, Senegal, last month, Nyongani reasserted his claim as one of the top African sprinters over this distance when he romped home first in a good time of 45.76 seconds.
Following on from his win in Dakar, Nyongani again beat this year’s African Athletics Championships bronze medallist James Godday of Nigeria (45.85sec) into second place on Sunday, according to reports from Congo Brazzaville.
Nyongani, who turns 25 on September 2, is now expected to move to Europe for his final preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, which are set to run from August 8-24 in Beijing, China.
Based at the Pretoria High Performance Training Centre in South Africa, Nyongani is one of Zimbabwe’s brightest medal prospects in Beijing along with swimming icon Kirsty Coventry.
After a disappointing outing at the last Olympics in Athens, Greece, in 2004 where he failed to reach the semi-finals of the 400m event, Nyongani is determined to perform much better in Beijing.
And he looks to be well on course of producing a medal-winning performance in Beijing judging from his recent results in Dakar and Congo Brazzaville.
In Sunday’s meet in Congo Brazzaville, Nyongani was among a host of Olympic Games-bound athletes who set the Alphonse Massamba Debat Stadium alight with some impressive performances.
Post published in: Zimbabwe Sports News