Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 68, March 2015 | Page 16

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HORNS!
From the perspective of most South African athletics
spectators, sprinter Carina Horn has flown somewhat under
the radar for the last few years, but through hard work and
sacrifice she is now knocking hard on the door for World
Champs and Olympic glory. – BY SEAN FALCONER

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ndoor athletics does not enjoy much coverage or support in South Africa,
mainly because we don’t have indoor tracks and thus it is a bit of an unknown
entity, but when Carina Horn sets in her blocks in a 60m dash, we should sit
up and take notice, because she is seriously fast. At the end of January, in her
first race of the year in Dusseldorf, Germany, the 25-year-old won in a time
of 7.21 seconds to shatter her 7.28 personal best set exactly a year earlier in
Vienna, and bring her that much closer to Wendy Hartmann’s SA record of

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7.15. This latest best comes
on top of a very successful 2014 season in which Carina improved her 100m
outdoor best from 11.59 to 11.17, which moved her from 31st on the all-time
SA performance list to fifth!
However, her climb up the SA rankings has gone largely unnoticed back in SA
due to the fact that she has based herself in Austria for much of the past few