Athletics: Bolt opens season with solid 400m
Usain Bolt wins his 400-metre heat while Yohan Blake loses to Warren Weir.
File photo of Usain Bolt.
KINGSTON:
Jamaican sprint hero Usain Bolt won his 400-metre heat while Yohan Blake was beaten by Warren Weir on Saturday as the athletes opened their 2013 season at the Camperdown Classic.
Weir, the 200-metre bronze medallist at the London Olympics last year, emerged with the meet’s overall 400m title with a time of 46.23sec. Blake, the double Olympic sprint silver medallist, clocked 46.77 in the same heat. In an earlier heat, Bolt trailed Riker Hylton into the last 40m but won the heat in 46.74. “I felt a bit nervous,” Bolt, the 100-metre and 200-metre world record-holder, said of his season opener. “I just came out here to win and I’m glad I won injury free.”
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.
Jamaican sprint hero Usain Bolt won his 400-metre heat while Yohan Blake was beaten by Warren Weir on Saturday as the athletes opened their 2013 season at the Camperdown Classic.
Weir, the 200-metre bronze medallist at the London Olympics last year, emerged with the meet’s overall 400m title with a time of 46.23sec. Blake, the double Olympic sprint silver medallist, clocked 46.77 in the same heat. In an earlier heat, Bolt trailed Riker Hylton into the last 40m but won the heat in 46.74. “I felt a bit nervous,” Bolt, the 100-metre and 200-metre world record-holder, said of his season opener. “I just came out here to win and I’m glad I won injury free.”
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.