Athletics: Bolt leads Jamaican team

Will be joined in Jamaica’s strong 50-member delegation by fellow defending champions like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

KINGSTON: Reigning double world champion Usain Bolt heads Jamaica’s team for the 2011 athletics World Championships, a squad that includes three more defending champions but not provisionally suspended Steve Mullings. Bolt, winner of the men’s 100m and 200m in world-record times of 9.5 and 19.19 seconds two years ago, will be joined in Jamaica’s strong 50-member delegation by fellow defending champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Melaine Walker and Brigitte Foster-Hylton. Asafa Powell, who is still in search of his first global title in the men’s 100m joins Bolt in the event along with Yohan Blake.



Published in The Express Tribune, August 17^th, 2011.