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Abdul-Rasheed Saminu delivered the biggest win of his career, edging Jamaica's Kadrian Goldson by a hundredth of a second to take the men's 100m invitational in Brussels — a big step up for the Ghanaian sprinter, who only broke into the sub-9.90 club for the first time last year. Watch below 👇

On this day in 1960, American Otis Davis and Germany's Carl Kaufmann both dipped under 45 seconds for the first time in history. They cross the line together in Rome in a photo finish so tight it takes one of the sport's first fully automatic timing systems to sort out.

Kaufmann's desperate diving lunge gets his head across first, but it's the torso that counts, and Davis's upright finish gives him the Olympic gold by one-hundredth of a second. Both men are credited with the same world record time of 44.9.

Davis — a basketball player who'd only picked up track two years earlier at age 26 — backs it up by anchoring the US to a second gold in the 4x400m relay just two days later.

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