Zharnel Hughes: 'The sky is the limit' says sprinter after breaking British 100m record

Zharnel Hughes won 200m golden and 100m metallic astatine the European Championships successful 2022, on with satellite 4x100m relay bronze

British sprinter Zharnel Hughes says "the entity is the limit" aft breaking the 30-year British men's 100m record, with his adjacent people securing a spot connected the World Championships podium.

That clip is the fastest clip successful the satellite this year, and the 2nd fastest ever by a European athlete.

"It was a surreal moment," European 200m champion Hughes told BBC Sport.

"I'm conscionable truthful blessed to execute a large milestone successful my career," helium added.

"It is thing I person been moving towards but my main absorption wasn't to spell determination and interruption the record, it was to execute my contention properly."

Despite the British grounds not being his superior aim, remarkably Hughes did foretell his nonstop time, which helium wrote down anterior to his contention accompanied by the words "have faith".

"I wrote it down but you inactive person to spell determination and bash it," Hughes said.

"When I saw that nonstop clip travel up connected the board, it was surreal. I wrote 9.83 down and present I'm seeing it.

"I'm inactive successful daze astir it, manifestation is real!"

Christie acceptable his erstwhile grounds successful becoming Great Britain's archetypal - and to day lone - satellite men's 100m champion successful Stuttgart successful 1993.

The 1992 Olympic golden medallist is nary alien to Hughes, who helium assists successful grooming whenever the Jamaica-based jock is successful the UK.

"It feels bully due to the fact that each clip I'm implicit successful the UK Linford volition drawback my times for me, but we ne'er really spoke astir the record," Hughes said.

"I'm looking guardant to being successful the UK adjacent week, shaking his manus and giving him a large hug. We person a truly bully relationship."

Hughes is coached by Glen Mills, the antheral who helped retired Jamaican sprinting fable Usain Bolt, holder of the 100m satellite record, execute his 8 Olympic medals.

He described Mills, caput manager of the Racers Track Club successful Kingston which was besides the location of Yohan Blake, the 2nd fastest antheral successful history, arsenic a "perfectionist".

"The feline sees each azygous mistake that needs to beryllium corrected," Hughes said. "He has been drilling my method into maine each azygous day."

Hughes volition beryllium returning to Britain earlier July's UK Championships, which besides includes the satellite trials.

There, helium is plotting a sprint treble successful the 100m and 200m.

Understandably aft his record-breaking run, helium says the 100m volition apt beryllium his main people astatine the World Championships successful Budapest, which statesman connected 19 August.

However, helium is yet to finalise those plans and, should helium unafraid his place, different double-up determination is not retired of the question.

"We're inactive successful June, and the World Championships are successful August, truthful I'm beauteous definite I tin inactive spell a batch faster," Hughes said.

"I conscionable request to enactment focused and accordant and we'll get there. The entity is the limit."

He added: "When we get person we'll determine what we'll bash successful Budapest, possibly adjacent a double.

"But I'm looking guardant to moving the 100m and I deliberation my clip would beryllium capable to get maine connected the podium.

"Why not sprout for the podium?"