Usain Bolt of Jamaica left everyone behind, blasting to a world record 19.30 time in the 200m Olympic finals. Bolt was able to narrowly best Michael Johnson’s 12 year record of 19.32 by two-hundredths of a second pulling away from the field almost immediately. Bolt becomes the ninth man to win both the 100m and 200m races in a single Olympics and the first since Carl Lewis back in 1984. Bolt also became the first man to set records in both events in the same games. Neither Jesse Owens nor Carl Lewis were able to pull a record double off in their day.
Churandy Martina of Netherlands Antilles took silver (19.82) followed by Shawn Crawford (19.96) from the US for bronze. American Walter Dix placed just out of the medal hunt with a fourth place finish (19.98). Wallace Spearmon of the US appeared to place third, but was DQ’ed for a lane infringement.
RantingMark says there is no question this guy is the fastest man in the world!
UPDATE: Churandy Martina was DQ’ed for a lane violation as well meaning that 2004 200m gold medal winner Shawn Crawford stepped up to silver and Walter Dix earned his second bronze medal of the games.
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