00:00So the T-11 athletes will run with a guide and blacked-out goggles and the T-11s have the
00:05option.
00:12World record, 10.82 by Gavellos of Greece. I don't know if we'll see that threatened here.
00:18There's a good chance this will be wind-assisted.
00:21Zach Shaw, born in Grimsby, runs for the Cleethorpes Club and his coach, Leon Baptiste, was an international sprinter himself.
00:28On your marks.
00:31A lot of support for him, the only home nation athlete in this race.
00:35He goes in five. There's Makathu of South Africa.
00:39He's in seven, nearest the camera.
00:41On the far side, George Kwaku.
00:47His guide, Oluwassagun Makinde, for the Canadian there.
00:52The coordination for these two makes it perhaps a little bit harder than for the other athletes.
00:57The guide athlete, Makinde, has to get his arm, action and his form in rhythm with Kwaku.
01:07Away they go.
01:08Really good start though from Kwaku over to the extreme right.
01:11The South African Smith go moving well and so is Zach Shaw of England.
01:14Zach Shaw steaming away with this one.
01:16It might be second forward South African on the near side.
01:18Very tight for second, but Zach Shaw takes that one.
01:2110.89 and the win plus 2.1.
01:26Oh, how frustrating.
01:27It's just over the legal limit.
01:3010.89 otherwise would have been a season's best for Zach Shaw.
01:34He has run 10.81.
01:36That was last year.
01:41Can't believe it.
01:43And brilliant running in lane 7 from Makathu.
01:46It was very tight.
01:4711.04 to 11.06.
01:49He beat Kaku, the Canadian, into third place.
01:52He takes the bronze with Jaco Schmidt a little way back.
01:55The other South African in this one in fourth place.
01:5711.24 for him.
02:00Well, I didn't see what he had written on the back of his number.
02:02He had gold.
02:02This would mean a lot to Zach Shaw.
02:04He's been chasing that global gold medal.
02:07He's been a silver medalist, a bronze medalist on a number of occasions,
02:09but that gold has eluded him on the global stage.
02:14Coming into this, he was the favorite to win it,
02:16but of course you have to deliver it on the big stage when the pressure's on.
02:19And George Corker and his guy got a fantastic start down in lane one.
02:23They would have put that pressure on Shaw very, very early in the race.
02:27But Shaw is really coming into his own this year.
02:31He's really racing.
02:32He's been racing very, very well and consistently throughout the year.
02:36I'm looking to see what he's written on the back of his number.
02:40Oh, gold for you, man.
02:42Oh, no, that brings a lump to my throat.
02:49He did a good job of highlighting Leon Baptiste as Zach Shaw's coach.
02:53Baptiste, of course, the Commonwealth Games champion in 2010
02:56over 200 meters in Delhi, and I'm sure Leon Baptiste
03:00has taken even more pride in Zach Shaw getting this gold medal today.
03:05As you say, Danny, it's been coming for a few years, hasn't it?
03:08He's been in and around the medals,
03:12but to get a gold will be very, very sweet for Zach Shaw.
03:15It would be.
03:16And you just see that Corker and his guy, or back to Shaw now,
03:21he's got great knee lift, hasn't he?
03:23Great technique as he comes down the home straight.
03:26I wouldn't like to guess what has come out of his mouth,
03:28but I think it meant he's quite happy with his performance.
03:32Well, his CV is dotted with silvers and bronzes.
03:35He took the silver four years ago.
03:38Back in 2018, he was sixth.
03:41He's matured night.
03:42He greatest player.
03:44Mesh.
03:45Hey.
03:47Hey.
03:49Hey.
03:51Hey.
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