Athletics: Gay cruises into 100m semi-finals

Gay owns the fastest 100 metres in the world this year of 9.79 seconds.

EUGENE: Tyson Gay got his World Championships qualifying campaign off to a safe start, moving into the 100 metres semi-finals at the US athletics championships. This was the main goal of Gay and the rest of America’s marquee sprinters on the opening day of the meeting, which serves as the US trials for this year’s World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. “My race was okay,” said Gay, who owns the fastest 100 metres in the world this year of 9.79 seconds but has been nursing a sore hip. “The start was sluggish.” He clocked 10.01 seconds to finish second in a wind-aided heat to Ivory Williams, who was timed in 9.95 seconds.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 25^th, 2011.