Athletics - Sicobo improves own record to 10.33 seconds |25 July 2017

It took 29 years for Cyril Brioche’s 100m national record of 10.51 seconds to be taken off the shelf and the man behind the exploit is Dylan Sicobo.

This young man, who has been training at the Centre international d'athlétisme de Maurice (Ciam) in Mauritius since last year, has improved the 100m record for the third time this year and the last time he did so was on Sunday evening at the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Running in the first of the two heats of the 100m semifinal round, Sicobo achieved a record-breaking performance when he stopped the clock at 10.33 seconds after reaching the finish line first.

Sicobo’s time was 0.05s faster than his previous record of 10.38 seconds set on Saturday June 17, 2017 during the Mauritius Senior National Championships at the Maryse Justin Stadium in Réduit.

It was in March this year during a competition in Mauritius that Sicobo erased Brioche’s 100m record of 10.51 seconds set way back on August 7, 1987 at the All-Africa Games in Kenya. He clocked 10.49 seconds.

G. G.