Prodigious Bayanda Walaza rocks and rolls way to fastest teen in the world 'title', seniors watch out

By the time sprinter Bayanda Walaza rolls into Maritzburg for the SA Senior National Championships this week, he will probably be the only athlete who is already in possession of a title - that of the world's fastest teenager.

As titles go, it is one that doesn't exactly come with a trinket, but it is no less impressive.

When Walaza rewrote his personal bests at the SA Junior Championships in the 100m and 200m in late March - to 10.13 sec and 20.34 sec - the times also made the 18-year-old the fastest teenager in the world.