Bayanda Walaza

thumb|Walaza Bayanda Bayanda Joy Walaza (born 9 February 2006) is a South African sprinter. He won silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics as part of South Africa's 4 x 100 metres relay team. Quotes I am in the driving seat for now, because I've qualified. It makes me relaxed, It doesn't put pressure on me to qualify. I'm no longer pressured by the time. I think it will be a good year for me. I trust myself so much that I don't even think of that way. As I was there, I told myself that all I needed to do was to make sure that this baton is moving away from my hand But I trusted myself with the handovers. I thought if I was going to mess it up, I was gonna mess up at the start. I never thought that athletics was this big! I've seen the comments, and people are saying ‘Walaza vs Gout!’ It makes me want to race him again We are creating a thing where the new generation is coming up, and people are noticing the young ones I want to run perfectly, properly and everything. I believe that everyone wants to look like an Asafa Powell when they run When I train, I don't usually run the way I do in competition. My hands are closed. My form is perfect in training. And then it happens when competition, when I don't notice, 'Boom, I'm back to that running style It's something that I cannot control yet…my body is trying to survive with the speed that I have My coach thinks it is how my body is trying to survive. Now I want to run away from the people I am racing against, and my body is trying to find a way to move away from them South African sprinting sensation Bayanda Walaza exclusive on racing Gout Gout and his peculiar running style,May 5 2025, OLYMPICS,By Ockert de Villiers External links Category:Track and field athletes Category:2006 births Category:Sportspeople from South Africa Category:Living people