Bolt adds 200m title, Kiprotich fastest in marathon
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Usain Bolt underlined his amazing sprinting prowess yesterday by powering to a third successive world 200m title at the World Athletics 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 19.79sec 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 yesterday and golds as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay teams in 2009 and 2011. He has two silvers (200m, 4x100m relay) from the 2007 Osaka worlds.
His burgeoning medal haul also includes unprecedented treble golds from both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Bolt now has the opportunity to 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.
Also, Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich added the world marathon gold to his Olympic title yesterday, again shutting out strong Ethiopian and Kenyan squads.
The Ugandan prison warden clocked 2 hour 09 minutes 51 seconds around the streets of Moscow with Ethiopian duo Lelisa Desisa (2:10.12) and Tadese Tola (2:10.23) claiming silver and bronze respectively. It was Uganda’s second world gold medal after Dorcus Inzikuru won the 3000m steeplechase at the 2005 worlds in Helsinki, and only the African nation’s fourth medal ever.
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