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Cape Town - Wayde van Niekerk broke another world record when he raced home in the rarely-run 300m at the Golden Spike meet at the Mestsky Stadium in the north eastern Czech city of Ostrava on Wednesday.
READ: Van Niekerk sets new world record for little-run 300m
Van Niekerk shattered yet another Michael Johnson record, stopping the clock in a time of 30.81 seconds.
He broke the 17-year standing time, bettering Johnson's 30.85 seconds he set in Pretoria in March 2000.
Van Niekerk is now the first athlete to break 10 seconds for the 100m, 20 seconds for the 200m, 31 seconds for the 300m and 44 seconds for the 400m.
Last year at the Rio Olympics, Van Niekerk broke Johnson's 400m world record of 43.18 seconds which had stood since 1999, running 43.03 as he set the Olympic Stadium alight.
It didn't take long for Twitter and South Africans to send their congratulations Van Niekerk's way.
Here are some of the tweets we picked up:
@WaydeDreamer well done my friend you are truly a legend and keep on inspiring us all. Salute. ???
— Caster Semenya (@caster800m) June 28, 2017
.@WaydeDreamer is now the first man in history to go:
— IAAF (@iaaforg) June 28, 2017
sub-10 for 100m
sub-20 for 200m
sub-31 for 300m
sub-44 for 400m
Damn that boy @WaydeDreamer shuuu????????!!' if you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath then you'll be successful. Mzanzi stand up!
— khotso Mokoena (@Lordmokoena) June 28, 2017
Bravo! Take a bow @WaydeDreamer https://t.co/zeFI916g4K
— Cameron vd Burgh (@Cameronvdburgh) June 28, 2017
@WaydeDreamer ?????????????? well done champion!!!
— Bryan Habana (@BryanHabana) June 28, 2017
@WaydeDreamer is a boss ???? enough said about , pure South African excellence ????
— Robin John Peterson (@robbie13flair) June 28, 2017
Congratulations to @WaydeDreamer for breaking yet another one... #WR3081 #Vorsprung pic.twitter.com/bcGXKGJgVG
— Nomzamo Mbatha (@NomzamoMbatha) June 29, 2017
World: Michael Johnson's 17 year old record is unbreakable
— Boitumelo Springbok (@SpringB_Jay) June 28, 2017
Wayde Van Niekerk: pic.twitter.com/MIH9V2lXjy
Congratulations to @WaydeDreamer who ran a 300m race in #worldrecord time of 30.81 seconds in Ostrava#AWinningNation???? #WaydevanNiekerk pic.twitter.com/19ZhXFpyiJ
— Dep. Sport & Rec (@SPORTandREC_RSA) June 28, 2017
@WaydeDreamer WHAT A CHAMPION ????
— Breyton Paulse (@BreytonPaulse) June 29, 2017
