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12:59, 23-Jun-2018
China's Su Bingtian moves closer to men's 100m world record
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Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian has moved 0.08 seconds closer to the men's 100 meters world record held by Jamaican legend Usain Bolt after he leveled the Asian record of 9.91 seconds at the 2018 IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Madrid on June 22.
The 28-year-old won the title with a tail wind of 0.2m/s, also refreshing China's national record set by Xie Zhenye at the Meeting de Montreuil three days ago, by six hundredths of a second.
Su's previous personal best was 9.99 seconds, which he clocked twice at the 2015 IAAF Diamond League Eugene meeting and the World Championships in the same year as the first Asian-born athlete to run under 10 seconds.
Prior to Su's achievement in the Spanish capital, Qatar's Femi Ogunode, born in Nigeria, set the Asian record of 9.91 seconds at the 2015 Asian Championships in Wuhan, China.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency