KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): Sprinter Muhammad Azeem Mohd Fahmi broke the national 100 metre (m) record with 10.09 seconds (s) at the Under-20 World Athletics Championships at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium in Cali, Colombia, early today Malaysia time.

The 18-year-old runner erased the old record of 10.18s set by former South-east Asia’s sprint champion Khairul Hafiz Jantan at the 2016 Malaysian Games (Sukma) in Kuching, Sarawak.