One national record fell, with junior sprinter Bradley Nkoana producing a breakthrough result, while three other SA marks were given a shake on a superb day for South African athletes at the Resisprint meeting in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on Sunday.

In the men's 100m sprint, 20-year-old Benjamin Richardson won the race in 9.86 seconds, crossing the line well ahead of American athlete Ronnie Baker, who took second position in 9.95.

Richardson took 0.22 off his personal best of 10.08, dipping under 10 seconds for the first time in his career. He completed the race just 0.02 outside the national record of 9.84 held by Akani Simbine.

Further back, in fifth position, 19-year-old Nkoana clocked 10.03 to slice 0.03 off the four-year-old SA U20 record of 10.06 which had been held by Shaun Maswanganyi.

Richardson then returned to the track a little more than an hour later to grab second spot in the men's 200m contest in a personal best 19.99 (the first sub-20 performance of his career). French athlete Ryan Zeze won the race in 19.90.

In other events, Marione Fourie took third position in the women's 100m hurdles event in 12.50, just 0.01 shy of the national record (12.49) she set in Hengelo, Netherlands a week earlier.

Dutch athlete Nadine Visser, a former World Indoor Championships medallist, won the race in 12.36.

Junior sprinter Viwe Jingqi also did well to win the women's 100m B race in 11.24, missing her own South African U20 record (11.22) by just 0.02.

Richardson, Nkoana and Fourie will all form part of the SA team at the Olympic Games in Paris next month, while Nkoana and Jingqi will compete at the World U20 Championships in Lima, Peru later in August.

* All SA records are subject to standard ratification processes

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