eugene amodadzie calls himself the worlds fastest accountant and the numbercrunching british athlete put his money where his mouth is by scorching the track in graz austria with a superb 993 seconds finish in the 100 metre runthe 30yearold fulltime accountant who only started running seriously four years ago improved on his personal best at the horst mandl memorial last week to become the quickest 100m runner in europe this yearamodadzies astonishing effort also left him jointfourth on the british alltime list which features names like linford christie 987 james dasaolu and zharnel hughes both 991 and reece prescod 993i got a really good reaction a really good start and then it was like do not let your foot off the gas amodadzie told the bbc i got into my upright running and i literally felt like i was flyingi leaned towards the line looked over saw the time began with a nine and went crazy i just went mad god willing i will run that many more times but you only get the first one once it was one of the best days of my lifeamodadzie who previously used his express pace to run rings around fellow amateur soccer players started training at woodford green athletics club and has steadily improved his performances with a peak time of 1005 seconds last yearthe late bloomer who does not have a sponsor or funding said he might not have realised his full potential had he been discovered earlieri feel like i came into the sport at the right time said amodadzie who reached the 60m semifinals at the european indoor championships representing britainthe head that i had on my shoulders at that time has allowed me to navigate this thing in a sensible way i very much enjoy that i have a different storyi still refer to myself as an accountant that happens to operate in the world of track and field