Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@lahnazakia
Topics: Athletics
Nasir Jabbar
A female track and field star shared telling footage of a race against a man after he claimed he could beat her.
Division one athlete Alahna Sabbakhan took to social media to document a race against her boyfriend's male friend.
He refused to believe the University of Virginia runner could beat him in a race.
So, they put it to the test over 400m and the result was extremely one-sided.
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The footage shows Sabbakhan and the male runner, who 'does not run' regularly, running side-by-side for the first 200 meters before the D1 runner left him in the dust.
The distance between the two runners grew as Sabbakhan finished 'hard', easily beating the man.
Sabbakhan, who is an 800m runner, clocked a time of 57 seconds, which was 'pretty good for practice'.
Her personal best times are 53 seconds from a 400m leg of a relay and 54 seconds in an open race.
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The TikTok video has over 15 million views and has been 'liked' by over two million users.
Her video caption read: "Just to clarify, I did NOT want to race this man I was already at the track with my bf doing a work out and he came to join."
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Sabbakhan said she thought it was 'ridiculous' when she first started hearing rumblings that her boyfriend's friend believed he could run faster than her.
"He didn’t really know what to challenge me in," she told Today.
"He was like: 'Yeah, I could beat her in the 400' - not realising that that was one of the hardest track events and that was one of my secondary events."
Sabbakhan added: "He wasn’t like: 'Oh, that wasn’t fair'. He was like: 'Yeah, that was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life'.
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"I feel like it was just a really good learning experience. It showed people that they need to stop underestimating us - as in track athletes, female athletes."