A SWITCH to the 100m dash from a 400m event may seem drastic for an athlete but for engineering undergraduate Wan Zhi Xuan, it was just a breeze. He even erased the 32-year-old Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) meet record.
The former Chung Ling High School student ran a blistering 10.8s during the 42nd USM Athletics Championship, shaving 0.1s from the record held by Ahmad Khairuddin since 1984.
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