Athletics: Bolt inspires Blake to lead sprinters
Usain Bolt’s training partner Yohan Blake won a fast but wind-assisted 100 metres preliminary race.
KINGSTON:
Usain Bolt’s training partner Yohan Blake won a fast but wind-assisted 100 metres preliminary race in an eye-catching 9.83 seconds at the Jamaican world championship trials. Blake edged Michael Frater by three hundredths of a second, aided by a big wind of 3.6 metres per second. World bronze medallist Asafa Powell and compatriots Steve Mullings and Nesta Carter also were among heat winners. Powell ran a wind-assisted 9.99 seconds, Carter clocked 10.05 and Mullings finished in 10.13. World record holder Bolt is not competing in the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 25th, 2011.
Usain Bolt’s training partner Yohan Blake won a fast but wind-assisted 100 metres preliminary race in an eye-catching 9.83 seconds at the Jamaican world championship trials. Blake edged Michael Frater by three hundredths of a second, aided by a big wind of 3.6 metres per second. World bronze medallist Asafa Powell and compatriots Steve Mullings and Nesta Carter also were among heat winners. Powell ran a wind-assisted 9.99 seconds, Carter clocked 10.05 and Mullings finished in 10.13. World record holder Bolt is not competing in the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 25th, 2011.