South Africa’s Forgotten Relay Blitz: Revisiting the Record Run That Still Shapes Sprinting Culture

On this day in South African sporting history, a quartet led by Hasenjager, Wills, Black and Maskell produced a relay performance that reset expectations and rewired local sprinting ambition. Their world-record pace remains a reference point—not just for the stopwatch, but for how South Africa thinks about speed, teamwork and track identity.