All Rights Reserved. Simbine ran it in 9.89 seconds.Ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, Simbine speaks to Brand South Africa and shares ten things about himself.Akani Simbine: To be one of a few [people] to have all of South Africa’s hopes of medals on my shoulders. I also want to improve on the 200m and go to world champs … and just come back with a medal.”Since then, however, he has had to settle for second or third.But perhaps it’s a just a matter of time, because Simbine packs plenty of power on the track.100m: 2010 — 10.61A, 2011— 10.57A, 2012 — 10.19 NJR, 2013 — 10.36, 2014 — 10.02A, 2015 — 9.97 =NR, 2016 — 9.89 NR, 2017 — 9.92A200m: 2011 — 21.27A, 2012 — 20.68A, 2013 — 20.79A, 2014 — 20.37, 2015 — 20.23, 2016 — 20.16, 2017 — 19.95A2010 5th South African Youth Championships (200m) 21.912011 3rd South African Junior Championships, Germinston (100m) 10.71A2011 6th South African Junior Championships, Germinston (200m) 21.94A2012 2nd South African Junior Championships, Germiston (100m) 10.43A2012 3rd South African Junior Championships, Germiston (200m) 21.42 2012 7th South African Championships, Port Elizabeth (100m) 10.69 2012 1st Zone VI U20 Games, Lusaka (100m) 10.192012 1st Zone VI U20 Games, Lusaka (200m) 20.682013 2nd South African U23 Championships, Pretoria (100m) 10.48A2013 1st South African U23 Championships, Pretoria (200m) 20.84A2013 3rd South African Championships, Stellenbosch (100m) 10.632013 3rd South African Championships, Stellenbosch (200m) 20.902013 7h3 World Championships, Moscow (100m) 10.382014 2nd South African Championships, Pretoria (100m) 10.02 2014 4sf3 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow (100m) 10.212014 5th Commonwealth Games, Glasgow (200m) 20.372014 4th Commonwealth Games, Glasgow (4x100m) 38.352014 8th African Championships, Marrakech (100m) 13.142015 1st South African Championships, Stellenbosch (100m) 10.252015 1st World Student Games, Gwangju (100m) 9.972015 4sf2 World Championships, Beijing (100m) 10.022015 6sf1 World Championships, Beijing (200m) 20.372016 2nd South African Championships, Stellenbosch (100m) 10.212016 3rd African Championships (100m) 10.052016 1st African Championships (4x100m) Durban 38.842016 5th Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (100m) 9.942016 2nd Diamond League Final, Zürich (100m) 9.99 “We haven’t done most of the training that we need to do.