A SECOND Welsh record in as many races saw Christian Malcolm breeze into the 200m final at Edmonton 2001 - the boy from Maindee is on fire.

Now being widely touted in Canada as a potential gold medalist, Malcolm is looking in medal winning form.

The Newport sprinter set both a new Welsh record and a personal best of 20.08 as he stormed through his semi-final, but Olympic champion Konstadinos Kederis will start favourite for tomorrow's final.

The Greek ran 20.03 to win his semi-final - the fastest time this year - but both sprinters have plenty more left to come.

Just like Kederis, Malcolm pulled up with ten metres left to run and it's a safe bet that both men will go below 20 secs for the final as they go all out for gold.

After Malcolm and Dwain Chambers both made Sunday's men's 100m final, so Britain has two sprinters in the 200m final with Marlon Devonish running a season's best 20.29 secs behind Kederis to qualify.

Devonish said it will be eye-popping running in the final as all athletes go for broke with the places for medals wide open.

With defending champion Maurice Greene sitting this one out and Seville 1997 200m winner Trinidad's Ato Boldon withdrawing injured, the gold is up for whoever performs on the day.

Malcolm said although tired, he knows he has to find one more big race. He said: "I've got to be confident going into this race, I have run two personal bests and I'm sure I can go in there and run well.

"I've got one more big race in me and hopefully I can produce the goods. "I'm not going to change my build up, I'll have a hot and cold bath to rest the legs, get a good nights sleep and see what tomorrow brings."

"I want to make sure I get a good start and just try to control it. "Kederis is a fast finisher, so I know in the last twenty metres I'll have to be looking for him, he'll be wanting to put pressure on me, but I can mix it at the start and the finish."

Just after 4.40am (BST) tomorrow we will know if Malcolm is the new world 200m champion.