South African results - LJ Van Zyl 32.32

[paddyb]

The South Africans and Saudi Arabia national teams ran in Spandau, Berlin tonight.

Don't have all results but LJ Van Zyl ran 32.32 for the 300m and a 10.73 earlier in the 100m.

[gabyandersen]

There is an interesting interview with Van Heerden (Van Zyl coach)

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/ ... id=1039568

biography
http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=45811.html

[Marlow]

Re: South African results - LJ Van Zyl 32.32

LJ Van Zyl ran 32.32 for the 300m.

Is Rawlinson's 34.48 still the 300H record? I'd like to see the big boys tangle at that race in a big Euro meet, just for fun. Or even the 200H, Jessee's race! (or was that the low hurdles at 20 yard spacing?)

[bearcats00]

There is an interesting interview with Van Heerden (Van Zyl coach)

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/ ... id=1039568

biography
http://www.iaaf.org/news/athletes/newsid=45811.html

Interesting article, although I think there is a glaring error in the 2nd paragraph:

In late January, LJ van Zyl took the unusual step of lining up in the 800m for his first race of the season, a Yellow Pages meet in Potchefstroom.

Two things made the decision seem strange: Van Zyl is a 400m hurdler, and the last time one of his own incorporated the two- lap race into their training schedule was when it contributed to the great Ed Moses’s dominance of the event in the 1980s.

Felix Sanchez ran a PR of 1:51 in an early season meet in '06.

[rasb]

I know that Van Zyl is quite a common surname in South Africa. Does anyone know if LJ is a relative of Fanie Van Zyl, the brilliant S.A. distance runner from a few decades back?