Hughes clocks 9.9sec in 100m

BRITISH sprinter Zharnel Hughes has run the fastest 100 metres in the world this year, clocking 9.91sec to win the Racers Grand Prix in Jamaica. The 22-year-old was just 0.04sec off Linford Christie’s 25-year-old national record of 9.87sec. ‘I am feeling really good, I have to give God thanks first for making this possible and my team,’ said Hughes. Elsewhere, Dina Asher-Smith ran 10.93sec — 0.01sec outside her national record — to win the 100m at the Stockholm Diamond League yesterday. Lorraine Ugen won the long jump with 6.85m and Laura Muir was second in the 1500m.