RALEIGH (North Carolina), May 13: Jamaica's Asafa Powell has a message for the man who broke his 100 metres world record.

“Tell Justin (Gatlin) congratulations (but) the record is only on loan,” Powell was quoted by his agent Paul Doyle as saying shortly after the American clocked 9.76 seconds in Doha, Qatar on Friday.

The performance clipped one-hundredth of a second off Powell's 2005 world record and earned the 24-year-old Gatlin the triple crown of sprinting.

The soft-spoken sprinter, who once thought about being an artist, joins compatriots Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene and Canadian Donovan Bailey as the only male 100 metres runners to win Olympic and world championship golds and set a world record.—Reuters