200-meter final at World Championships in Athletics: Usain Bolt again before Justin Gatlin – Tagesspiegel

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Update Usain Bolt, sprint world champion over 100 meters, and the second duel with Justin Gatlin has in won the World Championships in Athletics in Beijing. In 19.55 seconds the Jamaicans came on Thursday in the 200-meter final finish.

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Shortly in the target Usain Bolt struck with both fists on his chest as a sign of his triumph: Jamaica’s superstar won after his victory in the 100 meters and the 200 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing. He sat down on Thursday in the Weltjahresbestzeit of 19.55 seconds against his US rival Justin Gatlin (19.74) by. Bronze took the South Africans and anaso jobodwana in 19.87 seconds. Thus Bolt captured the tenth world championship gold its unique career.

The world record holder had just been defeated on Sunday about 100 meters Gatlin. Bolt has not lost a 200-meter race since more of 2007. The time in Beijing was the fastest since his Olympic title in London in 2012 (then 19.32). At the end of the duel Bolt sat on a chair at the edge of the track and laughed good the next to him seated on a bench at Gatlin, who had previously held the Weltjahresbestzeit with 19.57 seconds. While Bolt’s projection had amounted to only one hundredth of a second in the short sprint, the favorite sat on his favorite distance significantly from

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Gatlin, former doping offenders from the United States, has met his match in Bolt. His hope of a throne fall had not been fulfilled. Nevertheless, the 33-year-old did not seem dissatisfied after another defeat.

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For Bolt to title number eleven now on Saturday with the Jamaican 4 x 100-meter relay consequences. The 29-year-old sat in tenth overall duel with Gatlin by for the eighth time. After one and a half years with a few injury concerns the six-time Olympic champion also showed that his era continues. (dpa)

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