World Championships in Athletics: Sprint king Usain Bolt wins gold in the 100 meters – THE WORLD

Usain Bolt is and remains the fastest man in the world. The Super Sprinter from Jamaica won the tense 100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in the super time of 9.79 seconds but only a tiny margin ahead of his US rival Justin Gatlin. The 33-year-old American and former doping offenders was beaten by a hundredth of a second is just in the most important race of the season at the blink of an eye. Unfortunately for former world champion Gatlin: Two years ago, in Moscow he lacked eight hundredths to victory

“That was not my best I stumbled… My goal is to be number one, until I resign, “Bolt said after the breathtaking duel. “That’s why I drive me forward and drive me back to the front. I could have run faster.” Unfortunately for former world champion Gatlin:. Two years ago in Moscow he lacked 8/100 to victory

Bolt would for a “Home accidents” in the first semifinal almost fallen by the wayside, but then came even at first. In the finals, the man in the green-yellow jersey exploded: Two days after his 29th birthday Bolt won his third title in the most prestigious track and field discipline after 2009 and 2013, and celebrated his ninth world championship gold medal. He has been before the 200-meter race (Thursday) and the 4x100m relay on the final day a title more than the legendary American Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson.

The 55,000 spectators in the spectacular National Stadium, where” Big Bolt “in 2008, three Olympic gold runs lay, raged – were all witnesses of a tingling final run. Never before since the rise Bolts of 100 meter Thriller was accompanied by so much voltage and the output so uncertain. That the young Canadian André de Grasse and US sprinter Trayvon Bromell were in 9.92 seconds at the same time the parties got the duel of Sprint giants to side note.

Even in the semifinals, it crackled in the “Bird’s Nest”, then stopped the crowds of breath – because Bolt would be almost self-defeating: The Jamaicans stumbled immediately after the start, then fetched but powerful and even won yet in 9.96 seconds. Gatlin sat in 9.77, another caution sign. The German record holder Julian Reus from TV Wattenscheid eliminated in eighth in 10.28 seconds from – he had his duty but more than satisfied. The 27-year-old was the first German semifinalist since the World Cup premiere 1983rd

While Gatlin almost the whole season dominated, Bolt came late in the form , By injury of world record holder had a training deficit and had to cancel his participation in some meetings. Coach Glen Mills (Bolt: “The best coach in the world”) built him gently back on, mentally

As with the 2012 Olympic Games in. London owes Bolt’s gold medal but also a little of the “golden hands” of Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt. The end of June was the superstar at the prominent physicians to treat in Munich. A blocked sacroiliac joint cabinets Bolts mobility and radiate on his left leg, it said. But to Beijing, he was fit again. “I’m at 100 percent,” the fastest man of the world said after his lead.

Gatlin, ten years ago in Helsinki double world champion, was with huge confidence went to Beijing. The native New Yorker was even considered by many as a favorite. With 9.74 seconds he stood at the top of the annual world top list since May. That he is now 33 is at the zenith of his career after two doping barriers, is observed with suspicion and distrust.

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