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Zharnel Hughes has broken the 30-year British 200m record by clocking 19.73 seconds in front of a sell-out 50,000 crowd at the London Diamond League.
The 28-year-old took 0.21 secs off the previous mark of 19.94, set by John Regis at the 1993 World Championships.
The record time saw Hughes take third, with American world 200m champion Noah Lyles winning in 19.47 secs.
It is the second long-standing national mark Hughes has broken this season, having smashed the 100m record in June.
Hughes, who ran 9.83 secs in New York to better Linford Christie's time in 1993, previously ran 19.77 with an illegal wind speed to claim the UK 200m title in Manchester earlier this month.
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