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Wayde Van Niekerk sets World Record.
Olympic 400-metre gold medallist Wayde van Niekerk is to return to the tracks in July.
Prior to his return, the world record holder is to travel to Qatar for an assessment by sports physician Louis Holtzhausen as he recovers from a knee injury sustained in a charity touch rugby game last October which forced him to miss the recent Gold coast Commonwealth Games in Australia.
He will come back to continue with the healing process for six weeks in South Africa and return to Doha for the last time.”
It will only be after his second visit to Doha that his team will be sure of competitive runnings.
Following the retirement of Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt, Van Niekerk was keen to compete in the 100 and 200-meters as well as the 400 at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. However the injury he suffered may not allow this to happen .
Van Niekerk was one of the major attractions at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro when he smashed the 400m world record with a time of 43.03, beating the long-standing mark set by American Michael Johnson in 1999.
Courtesy of Reuters Reports
