Briton Zharnel Hughes achieved the best performance of the season in the 100m in 9 sec 83 and broke the old record of the United Kingdom on Saturday, during the Grand Prix of athletics in New York.
With a favorable wind (1.3m/sec), the 27-year-old sprinter swept away his former personal best (9.91 in 2018) and set the best mark in history for the United Kingdom, 36 years after the 9.87 of Linford Christie at the 1987 World Championships in Stuttgart.
It is also the second best time in history over 100m for a European, after the Italian Marcell Jacobs (9.80 at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021).
Double European champion in the 100m and 4x100m in Berlin in 2018, Hughes beat the Jamaican Ackeem Blake (9.93) and the American Christian Coleman (10.02) on Saturday, during this meeting scheduled eight weeks before the Worlds in Budapest. (August 19-27).
