Just 24 hours after he broke the flying 200m world record, Matthew Richardson returned to the velodrome to beat the benchmark again, setting a new best time of 8.857 seconds.

The track sprinter became the first rider in history to clock under nine seconds in the event on Thursday, doing so inside the velodrome in Konya, Turkey. Afterwards, he said he “rode a lot of it outside the sprint lane” – that is to say, above the black and red lines – and that he had “a bit more” to give.

The 26-year-old lined up another attempt on Friday afternoon and took a further 0.84 seconds off the 8.941 record he set the previous day. His average speed for his latest effort was 81.3kph. You may like

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