Canada's Christopher Morales Williams sets world indoor 400m record over weekend

ºÃÉ«tv Christopher Morales Williams set a world indoor record in the men's 400 metres with a time of 44.49 seconds to win the NCAA Southeastern Conference indoor championships. Morales Williams, of Vaughan, Ont., poses for a photo next to his result during the NCAA Southeastern Conference indoor championships, in Fayetteville, Ark., in a Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-University of Georgia, Wesley Hitt, *MANDATORY CREDIT*

Christopher Morales Williams continued raising his profile on the U.S. university track scene this weekend.

The 19-year-old Vaughan, Ont., native set a world indoor record in the men's 400 metres with a time of 44.49 seconds to win the NCAA Southeastern Conference indoor championships on Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark. If ratified, he tops the mark of 44.57 from American Kerron Clement in 2005.

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