This file photo taken on September 5, 2014 shows Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim reacting as he clears 2m43 to win the men's high jump event during the Memorial Van Damme Athletics Diamond League meet in Brussels.

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Mutaz Essa Barshim wants to beat one of athletics oldest world records at the Asian Games, while Zhang Peimeng just wants to drag Asia into the modern 100m world with a sub-10 second time.
A week of track and field at the Incheon Games starts Saturday with a lot at stake.  
Qatar's star high jumper Barshim was a fingertip shy of Cuban Javier Sotomayer's 21-year-old record of 2.45 metres at the Brussels Diamond League earlier this month, reaching 2.43m.
The 23-year-old said he is now ready to beat his idol's mark.
"My goal is to beat the world record," a confident Barshim told AFP. "I'm completely ready for the Asian Games.
"I will do my best to make this great achievement and create memories for Asia."
The towering Qatari, whose younger brother is also a high jumper, won gold in at the Guangzhou Asiad four years ago and a bronze at the 2012 London Olympics.
Organisers are desperate for a world record from Barshim on Monday as they seek to fill Incheon's new 62,000-seater athletics stadium.
And also looking to make history is China's Zhang, who will bid to become the first Asian-born sprinter to race 100m in under 10 seconds on Sunday.
Zhang raced to a Chinese record of 10.00sec at last year's world championships in Moscow.
 
"I'm feeling in very good shape right now," the 27-year-old, who is appearing at his first Asian Games, told the Tencent news portal.
"But I'm not worrying much about the time."
Asia is the last continent not to have a real sub-10 second sprinter. It claims a 9.99sec 100 metres, but it was set by Samuel Francis -- a Nigerian-born sprinter who took Qatari nationality.
Zhang's chances received a setback when Japanese teenager Yoshihide Kiryu pulled out of the Asian Games this month over a torn left hamstring.
Kiryu, 18, clocked 10.01 as a schoolboy last year and had also been tipped to achieve the sub-10 feat. It was hoped he and Zhang would spur each other on in a mouthwatering Japan v China sprint.  
"I'm disappointed he is missing," said Zhang.
Zhang's biggest threat for gold is likely to come from Qatar's Femi Ogunode, originally from Nigeria, who is also defending his men's 200 and 400m titles.
Ogunode is seeking redemption after he returned to action in January following a two-year doping ban for using the drug clenbuterol.