Athletics - Sicobo lowers 100m record to 10.38 seconds |20 June 2017

After he erased Cyril Brioche’s 29-year-old 100m record of 10.51 seconds back in March this year, Dylan Sicobo has further lowered his own record.

On Saturday during the Mauritius Senior National Championships held at the Maryse Justin Stadium in Réduit, Sicobo managed to cross the finish line first in 10.38 seconds to lower his previous time of 10.46 seconds.

Training at the Centre International d’Athlétisme de Maurice (Ciam), it is clear that the number of hours spent on the track and in the gym is really paying off as he continues to improve the national record and this comes after he also competed in France earlier in the month.

Formerly a student at the Seychelles Institute of Technology (SIT), many may remember Sicobo already settings records at a young age and this is a true testament that Seychelles’ athletics is indeed progressing, especially after another long-standing hurdles record was broken last year by Ned Azemia.

Sicobo will still be looking to lower the time and his aim will surely be to become the first Seychellois athlete ever to run below the 10-second mark.

The current men's world record is 9.58 seconds set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt in 2009, while the women's world record of 10.49 seconds set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 remains unbroken.

On the continent, the 100m sprint record stands at 9.85 seconds held by Nigeria’s Olusoji Fasuba since 2006.

S. N.