India, July 9 -- At just 22, Animesh Kunjur has sprinted his way into Indian athletics history. Over the weekend, at the at the Dromia International Sprint and Relays Meeting in Vari, Greece, the young sprinter from Chhattisgarh clocked 10.18 seconds in the 100m - a time that not only smashed the previous national record but also earned him a new title: India's fastest man.

"Honestly, I didn't realise I had broken the record at first," he tells us, still riding the high of the achievement. "I knew I had run a strong race and thought I was somewhere around 10.2. When my coach confirmed it was 10.18, I was shocked. The first thing I did? I pinned it to my Instagram profile," he laughs.

Animesh isn't new to rewriting record books. Just las...