Athletics: Sprint record broken

Commonwealth Games-bound sprinter Matt Brown set a New Zealand junior 100m record of 10.43 seconds at Southport in Queensland over the weekend.

Racing with a following wind of 1.6 metres per second, Brown broke James Dolphin's record of 10.48s set in Dunedin three years ago. The 19-year-old won the race ahead of James Mortimer (10.51s), David Falealili (10.52s) and Carl van der Speck (10.81s), who are all members of New Zealand's 4x100m relay squad at the Games in Melbourne this month.