Maslák sets fastest time 400m in world this year ahead of European Indoor Championships

Czech sprinter Pavel Maslák has achieved the fastest time in the 400m in the world this year just two weeks before the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague. Maslák, who is 24, achieved a time of 45.27 seconds at a meeting at the city’s Stromovka on Sunday, shaving three tenths of a second off his own Czech record. The sprinter holds the European Indoor title after coming first in Sweden’s Gothenburg in 2013.