adminduring an international track and field meet.
According to reports from Florida, Mvumvure stormed home first in 9.98 seconds to set the sixth fastest time over 100m in the world this year at the Star Athletics Sprint Series meet on Saturday.
Mvumvure also set a personal best time as he beat a strong field which included Richard “Torpedo” Thompson, an Olympic Games bronze medallist, and Jeff Demps.
In second place was Ramon Gittens who added his name to the list of World Championship qualifiers with a sizzling 10.02 second run in the men’s 100m while Bahamian Derrick Atkins (10.06) came third.
The 25-year-old Gittens now ranks as the second fastest Barbadian over 100m, surpassing the 10.03 seconds down Andrew Hinds back in 2004. He still has some work to do if he is to surpass Obadele
Thompson 9.87 seconds run in 1998.
Gittens’ time easily surpasses the CAC qualifying standard of 10.40 seconds as well as the “A” standard of 10.15 seconds for the World Championships.
Trinidad & Tobago’s Thompson clocked 10.14 seconds to finish fourth in the men’s 100m dash in Florida on Saturday.
But it was Zimbabwean Mvumvure’s outstanding performance when storming home to victory in 9.98 seconds in this race which caught the eye of many in Florida on Saturday.
Mvumvure is a product of Munya Maraire’s World Wide Scholarships Group and he left Zimbabwe in 2008 for an athletics scholarship at Louisiana State University in the United States.
He was a standout 100m and 200m sprinter during his four-year collegiate career at LSU from 2008-2011.
Mvumvure also made a name for himself as one of the stars on LSU’s 4×100-metre relay team and earned three career All-America honours as a member of the sprint relay. He was an impact performer as a freshman in 2008 while helping the Tigers capture their seventh NCAA title all-time in the 4x100m relay while running the third leg in the national final.
Mvumvure joined Armanti Hayes, Richard Thompson and Trindon Holliday to run the third-fastest time in programme history with a title-clinching run of 38.42 in the NCAA final.
He also anchored the Tigers to All-America finishes in both 2010 and 2011 before capturing one SEC title and two All-SEC honours as a member of the sprint relay.
The Zimbabwean sprinter finished his career among the Top 10 performers in programme history in both the 60mr dash and 200m dash on LSU’s all-time indoor performance list and he was ranked No. 5 in the 60m (6.68s) and No. 7 in the 200m (20.96s) on the school’s all-time list.
Mvumvure also recorded wind-legal PRs of 10.23 in the 100m and 20.67 in the 200m during his LSU career.
He was a a member of LSU’s school record 4×200-m relay team that clocked 1:20.45 to take the gold at the Texas Relays in 2011.
Mvumvure teamed up with Keyth Talley, Horatio Williams and Tristan Walker for a time of 1:20.45.
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