KUALA LUMPUR: The oldest record in Malaysian athletics – the men’s 200m – is finally broken after 49 years.
Yesterday, Melaka sprinter Khairul Hafiz Jantan ran the race of his life to clock 20.90 seconds at the Malaysian Open to break Tan Sri Dr M. Jegathesan’s 20.92 mark set in the semi-finals of the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
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