Jamaican Usain Bolt
outstripped American rival Justin Gatlin to win his fourth consecutive world
200m title on Thursday to add to the 100m gold he won at the weekend.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt
makes his trademark celebration pose after winning the final of the men's 200
metres athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the "Bird's
Nest" National Stadium in Beijing on August 27, 2015.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt
makes his trademark celebration pose after winning the final of the men’s 200
metres athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s
Nest” National Stadium in Beijing on August 27, 2015.
Bolt clocked 19.55
seconds to extend his domination of global sprinting since taking the world by
storm at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the same Bird’s Nest stadium.
Gatlin, who has served
two doping bans, clocked 19.74sec, with South African Anaso Jobodwana taking
bronze with a national record of 19.87sec.
The victory meant Bolt
has now remarkably won 11 of the last 12 individual Olympic and world sprint
titles since shooting to fame at the Beijing Games, his only blip coming after
a false start in the 100m at the 2011 worlds in Daegu.
Photo Credit: AFP PHOTO
/ ADRIAN DENNIS
Source: Vanguard News
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