Two South Africans - Episode 2 - Hezekiel Sepeng "....from the top of the mountain"

On the 24th April 1973 Marcello Fiasconaro - the wonder-boy from Cape Town - equaled the South African record for the 800 meters.
Two months later, on the 27th June 1973 - at age 24 - he broke the world record for the 800 meters in Milan, Italy.
A legend in his lifetime & revered in Italy, Marcello’s world record for the 800 meters stood for ten years.
His Italian record for the 800 meters still stands today.
Marcello’s South African record stood for 25 years and was finally broken on the world stage a generation later - by Hezekiel Sepeng at age 22 heading a new wave of South African athletes.
On the 1st August 1996, Hezekiel Sepeng, became the first Black South African ever - representing his country South Africa - to win an Olympic medal when he took silver in the 800 meters at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
For Hezekiel - the young farm boy from Boskop - his triumph was the euphoric climax to a determination & destiny that saw his brilliance on the track win hearts & minds and overturn entrenched racist prejudice.
For South Africa his triumph brought confirmation of a new dawn where black and white athletes could finally compete on the world stage as South Africans representing their country - the new free & democratic South Africa.
Two South Africans is the combined life’s journey of Marcello Fiasconaro and Hezekiel Sepeng - two South African world champions - told against the tortured sporting / political backdrop of South Africa’s begrudging & grueling climb from the dark days of Apartheid to the afterglow of a new free and democratic post-1994 South Africa.

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King 👊, I still feel the gold was his at Atlanta if he didn't stumble at the end... Definitely the fastest finisher in the last 100m that day