By Zim Sport Live Writer
Top Zimbabwean female sprinter Vimbayi Maisorewa broke her own women’s national 400m indoor during the preliminary round of the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships in College Station, Texas, USA on Friday.
The 25-year-old Mutare-born athlete ran the best indoor race of her career clocking 51.55 seconds to finish a close second in the fifth heat of the women’s 400m prelims at the Fasken Indoor Facility.
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The performance saw her setting a new national record for the women’s 400m indoor as she significantly lowered her previous record of 52.16 seconds which she set at the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina, three weeks ago.
Prior to Maisvorewa’s arrival the previous record national record was 54.91 seconds set by Larissa Bakasa in 2004 during her time at Texas Christian University (TCU) in the United States.
Maisvoreva has been making significant progress since her move to the USA three years ago initially to Cloud County Community College in Kansas, where she won two national championships, before moving to Auburn University two years ago.
After her performance on Friday, Maisvorewa qualified for Saturday’s finals with the sixth best time.