Hughes clocks 9.83s to break Christie’s 100m British record

Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes celebrates after winning the 100m dash at the Icahn Stadium in New York on Saturday. Pic/AFP

Zharnel Hughes broke Linford Christie's 30-year-old British 100m record on Saturday, closing late from third to win in 9.83 seconds at the New York Grand Prix athletics meet.

The 27-year-old Anguilla-born Briton sped past Jamaica's Ackeem Blake and American Christian Coleman over the second half of the race to capture the title in a key warmup meet for qualifying for August's World Championships at Budapest. "Anything is possible," Hughes said of the remainder of the season.

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"And the great thing is we haven't started speed work yet. So this is just raw speed and endurance." Hughes, the 2018 European 100m champion, defeated runner-up Blake by 0.1 of a second with 2019 world champion Coleman third in 10.02. Hughes lowered the old British mark of 9.87 set by Christie in 1993 at Stuttgart. It prompted Hughes to recall a prior New York meet where he raced sprint legend Usain Bolt, now among his training partners in Jamaica.

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