Bolt grabs 200m gold at a canter
Jamaican superstar wins his seventh world title as he gives his rivals no chance in sprint
Usain Bolt underlined his amazing sprinting prowess yesterday by powering to a third successive world 200 metres title at the world championships for his seventh world gold medal.
The 26-year-old Jamaican destroyed the field to finish in 19.66 seconds, teammate Warren Weir claiming silver in a personal best of 19.79 seconds and American Curtis Mitchell taking bronze in 20.04.
It was Bolt's seventh world gold medal after winning the 100 and 200m at the Berlin worlds in 2009, the 200m in Daegu in 2011, the 100m in Moscow and golds as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay squads in both 2009 and 2011. He also has two silvers (200m, 4x100m relay) from the 2007 worlds in Osaka.
His burgeoning medal haul also includes unprecedented treble golds from both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Bolt can draw level with the present mark of eight world gold medals won by retired American duo Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson when he races the 4x100m relay today.
Earlier, Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich added the world marathon gold to his Olympic title yesterday, again shutting out strong Ethiopian and Kenyan squads.