Teeth clenched, Usain Bolt grimaced as he churned toward the finish line, in the last event (The 4x100m Relay) — at the 2011 IAAF Daegu World Championships.
Bolt, who took over the anchor position for the first time in a major position in the absence of the injured Asafa Powell, blazed down the stretch and crossed the line at 37.04 seconds. It was the only world record set in nine days of competition at the 2011 world track and field championships in Daegu, South Korea. [ READ MORE ]
[ ENLARGE ] The ‘Mandingo‘ Powers His Way To a New World Record in The 4×100 Relay
Bolt Again, and Again! 19.19 World Record in Berlin!
BERLIN — Bolt Runs Away With Another One: Usain Bolt ran the 200 meters in 19.19 seconds, 11-hundredths of a second faster than the world record he established a year ago at the Beijing Olympics. So it went again Thursday at the world championships on the blue track he has made his latest playground. Bolt proved that he did not require the hot breath of a dangerous challenger like Tyson Gay to obliterate his own world record in the 200 meters. Running alone — startlingly alone — for the last half of the race in Lane 5, Bolt showed no interest in slowing down with the gold medal already a foregone conclusion. Instead, he sprinted through the finish, and the result was the stunning, symmetrical time of 19.19 seconds. [ READ MORE ]
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1.Earlier on Usain Bolt Broke His 100m Record — Eating up 100 meters of track in an astonishing 9.58secs. Below is a graphic that shows how previous record holders would have fared against Mr. Bolt. Ray Stefani, an engineering professor emeritus at California State University Long Beach and a researcher on sports performance, calculated where the other six would be on the track at the moment Bolt reached the finish line. Those calculations are based on each runner’s sprinting at a constant velocity (in reality, some runners sprint faster toward the finish) and don’t account for track conditions those runners faced at the time, or the inferior quality of their shoes.
2.Jamaicans Taking Berlin by Storm — Usain Bolt’s home is fast becoming track and field’s home nation, with Bolt leading the way after becoming a force of nature and then somehow exceeding the hype in Berlin. [ READ MORE ]
BBC: Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran the fourth-fastest 200m time in history as he stormed to victory in appalling conditions at the Lausanne Grand Prix.
Bolt ran 19.59 seconds despite a strong headwind and heavy rain in Switzerland.
Olympic 400m champion Lashawn Merritt was second with Shawn Crawford fourth, while Asafa Powell won the 100m.
Asked if he would have broken the world record in better weather Bolt said: “I don’t even think of it in those terms, I was just trying to test myself.”
The 22-year-old Jamaican admitted that there was still room for improvement ahead of next month’s world championships, but was otherwise pleased with his form.
“I’m in good shape, but I’m not fully ready yet. I still need to work on a few technical things,” said the 100m and 200m world record holder. [ READ MORE ] [ IAAF WEBSITE ]
Put him in an Olympic stadium or a shopping street in the centre of Manchester and the result is the same: total annihilation.
telegraph.co.uk: The frightening thing is that the big Jamaican, who pushed back the boundaries of possibility last summer when he won three gold medals in world record time in Beijing, insists he is still only 70 per cent fit following an interrupted winter and the loss of nine days’ training after his car crash last month.
His winning time in last Sunday’s rarely run 150 metres was an eye-popping 14.36sec, smashing the previous best-known time for the distance of Canada’s Donovan Bailey – 14.99sec run on bend against Michael Johnson in 1997.
Britain’s Marlon Devonish was a distant second in 15.07sec. He admitted Bolt was in “a league of his own.”
Bolt’s time will now be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations as an official ‘world best,’ though it is his 100m split-time that will send shockwaves across the world – 9.90sec on a rain-soaked track in temperatures more common to February than mid-May.
To put that into perspective, Dwain Chambers managed 10.21sec in his first 100m of the season on Saturday in the tropical heat of Puerto Rico. The Briton’s talk of ‘Project Bolt‘ looks precisely that: just talk.
Bolt must now be taken at his word when he says he is capable of improving on his 100m world record of 9.69sec this summer. “Anything is possible” is his mantra, and on this evidence it is hard to think of a better phrase to describe what lies ahead this summer.
Usain Bolt’s 100 meter 9.69 world record — At Beijing
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“You can expect great things from me,” said Bolt. “I always go out and try to do my best.”
His performance, which ended with his trademark ‘lighting bolt‘ celebration, was a reward for the several thousands hardy souls who shivered under umbrellas for most of the afternoon beside the temporary track erected on Manchester’s Deansgate.
But by the time Bolt took to the stage for the final the rain clouds had cleared and even the sun was starting to burst through. His Midas touch clearly extends to the elements.
By way of an hors d’oeuvre, Bahamian Debbie McKenzie Ferguson outpaced Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu to with the women’s 150m in 16.54sec, though this was all about a one-man show.
One woman in the crowd was even under the impression that the Jamaican’s dominance extended to the Bupa Great Manchester Run, held earlier in the day. She could be heard asking her neighbours: “Does anyone know how Usain Bolt got on in the 10k this morning?”
