400-metre world record holder Wayde van Niekerk has tested positive for covid-19 in Italy
400-metre world record holder Wayde van Niekerk has tested positive for covid-19 in Italy
3 August 2020
He was set to participate in a meet at Trieste - his first competition outside his native South Africa since 2017 after a knee injury.
Van Niekerk's understood to be asymptomatic.
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