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Lightning Bolt stays fastest
Lightning Bolt stays fastest. Jamaica\'s Usain Bolt retained his 100 meters title at the IAAF World Championship here on Sunday. Under huge pressure, and certainly not a favorite coming into the event, Bolt won in 9.79 seconds - besting rival Justin Gatlin (9.80s) In doing so Bolt became the third sprinter - after Americans Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene - to win the world title on three occasions.
Beijing: Jamaica's Usain Bolt retained his 100 meters title at the IAAF World Championship here on Sunday. Under huge pressure, and certainly not a favorite coming into the event, Bolt won in 9.79 seconds - besting rival Justin Gatlin (9.80s) In doing so Bolt became the third sprinter - after Americans Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene - to win the world title on three occasions.
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The final one-two finished exactly as it had in Moscow two years back. Canada's Andre De Grasse and American Trayvon Bromell tied for the bronze, the former with a personal best timing (9.92 seconds). The reigning world and Olympic champion had won the seventh heat in 9.96 despite a slow start, a poor show considering his high standards.
The 100 meters world record (9.58 secs) was set by Bolt in the Berlin edition in 2009. The Jamaican also won the event in Moscow in 2013, while also winning the gold in the same in the last two Olympics. Spain's Miguel Angel Lopez hauled in Wang Zhen to win the men's 20 Km race walk on Sunday and deny China their first gold medal of their home world athletics championships.
Wang, 23, bronze medallist at the London Olympics three years ago, broke clear of the leading pack at the 13 km mark and opened up a sizeable lead that looked to be enough. But a steely Lopez closed the gap at the 17km mark before overtaking an exhausted Wang shortly after, powering home to the Bird's Nest Stadium with the Chinese athlete unable to match the pace.
Lopez pumped his fist in delight as he crossed the line in a personal best time of one hour 19 minutes 14 seconds, with Wang 15 seconds back. Ben Thorne of Canada was a distant third in 1.19:57.
