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 Friday.

The 28-year-old won the title with a tail wind of 0.2 meters per second, 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.

Su also led China to second place of the men’s 4x100m relay at the 2015 Beijing World Championships.(Xinhua)