Zambia's Siame wins 100 metre dash at Youth Olympics


  • Tennis
  • Saturday, 23 Aug 2014

Zambia's Sydney Siame celebrates winning the men's 100m at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province August 23, 2014. REUTERS/Aly Song

NANJING China (Reuters) - Zambian sprinter Sydney Siame laid claimed to the title of the world's fastest kid when he won the 100 metres final at the Youth Olympics on Saturday.

The 16-year-old African took out the blue-riband event by the barest of margins in a time of 10.56 seconds, just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Japan's Kenta Oshima.

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