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Usain Bolt wins 200m World Championship gold

Ersin Çelik
16:4227/08/2015, Thursday
U: 27/08/2015, Thursday
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Usain Bolt achieves another world championship double sprint gold with a dominant victory over Justin Gatlin at the World Championships in Beijing

Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt ran the fastest time of the year in 19.55 seconds to win the world 200 meters title for a record fourth time and sweep the individual sprints at a major global championships for a fifth time on Thursday.



Five days after beating Justin Gatlin to win the 100 meters, the 29-year-old Olympic champion and world record holder again proved too strong for in-form American, who finished second in 19.74 seconds.



Anasco Jobodwana took bronze in 19.87 for South Africa.



The victory gave Bolt a record-extending 10th world championship gold medal and he could yet win an 11th as part of Jamaica's 4x100 meter relay team on Saturday.



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