at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. After graduating, he channelled the focus that enabled him to equal the world record into the family business and has had a successful and varied career in commerce. He is now chairman of Sable Holding Pty Limited, a property investment and management company, and has also amongst other things operated an aviation company, Astro Helicopters and a road-freight business. Sportswriter, coach and former Springbok athlete, Jan Barnard, and Nash himself interviewed in early 2011, believe that had he been given the opportunity, but for the sports boycott of South Africa because of its apartheid policies, that he would have beaten Jim Hines in the Olympic final in Mexico City in 1968. External links "Invitation withdrawn", Time, 3 May 1968. [J. Barnard, 1968 South African Athletics Annual] "", R Mayer, "Arthritis halts 60s speedster at peak of career", Sunday Times, 10 April 2011. References South African male sprinters Living people 1947 births Alumni of Michaelhouse 20th-century South African people 21st-century South African people