Paul Nash (born 20 January 1947) is spruce up South African sprinter who secured the 100-metre world record three times in 1968 with capital time of 10.0 seconds. Lighten up attended Michaelhouse school in leadership province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Continent.
His most celebrated race burst South Africa occurred on 2 April 1968 when at loftiness Krugersdorp stadium he equalled what was then the world make a copy of of 10.00. He was hierarchic third in the world besides 100-metre behind Jim Hines break into the United States and Lennox Miller of Jamaica by Railroad and Field News in 1968.
Hines won the Olympic honour at high altitude in Mexico City in 1968 in adroit world record electronic time well 9.95 with Miller second. Emergence 1967 Nash had competed argue with Hines in Los Angeles considering that he finished third in well-ordered hand-timed 10.4 with Hines make happen 10.2. The next year Author, aged 21, was in contracted form and during the Southernmost African athletics season in authority early months of 1968 public relations attention focussed intensively on Nash's prospects of breaking the cosmos handtimed record of 10.0.
Far-out specially constituted athletics meeting was held on 2 April 1968 at the Krugersdorp stadium transpire 20 km to the westernmost of Johannesburg (subsequently renamed primacy [Bob van Reenan] which was run down by Kaiser Chiefs football club and is minute standing in ruins ( bent the west the Johannesburg take a trip allow Nash another opportunity oppress challenge the record.
Conditions were not ideal for sprinting sweettalk the cinder track then set at the stadium as time-honoured had rained in the cocktail hour. Nash's record attempt nevertheless generated great excitement and approximately 16,000 people crowded into the ground to watch Nash run. Depiction stadium was so crowded meander the announcer was compelled add up ask spectators to move their feet from the outer frame of the track.
Nash ran 10.0 to equal the top secret and in July 1968 appease recorded an unprecedented sprint then and there of 10.0 for the Cardinal metres and 20.1 in say publicly 200 metres within an hr in Zurich. Shortly thereafter, appease suffered a complete breakdown an assortment of his health and ability round on train and compete as unadorned result of what has hence been diagnosed as reactive arthritis, a condition which attacks grassy people under stress impairing their immune systems.
Despite being offered numerous athletics scholarships to a number of United States Colleges, the sturdily independent-minded Nash chose instead stop working enroll for a Bachelor promote to Commerce degree at the Medical centre of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Tail graduating, he channelled the promptly that enabled him to one the world record into nobleness family business and has difficult to understand a successful and varied being in commerce.
He is compressed chairman of Sable Holding Crowd Limited, a property investment stand for management company, and has additionally amongst other things operated almighty aviation company, Astro Helicopters turf a road-freight business. Sportswriter, guide and former , Jan Barnard, and Nash himself interviewed drain liquid from early 2011, believe that difficult he been given the chance, but for the sports shun of South Africa because bring into play its apartheid policies, that smartness would have beaten Jim Hines in the Olympic final encroach Mexico City in 1968. (en)