Top Olympian sprinted, mid-august. Bronze for Bornean climber (9)

I believe the answer is:

orangutan

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'bornean climber' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'top olympian sprinted mid-august bronze' is the wordplay.
'top' says to take the initial letters (in a down clue, the first letter is top).
'sprinted' becomes 'ran' (I've seen this in another clue).
'mid' indicates the central letters (mid- can mean the middle of something).
'bronze' becomes 'tan' (both can mean to get a sun tan).
The middle letters of 'august' are 'gu'.
The initial letter of 'olympian' is 'o'.
'o'+'ran'+'gu'+'tan'='ORANGUTAN'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for orangutan that I've seen before include "a big sub-human creature" , "ape" , "Primate" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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