It's Usain Bolt again as he clinches 10th gold at world championships
Jamaican star completes thrilling sprint double by winning 200m four days after his 100m title, cementing his credentials as champion
Jamaica's Usain Bolt easily outstripped American rival Justin Gatlin to claim his fourth consecutive world 200m title yesterday to complete a rousing sprint double in Beijing.
Bolt clocked a world-leading 19.55 seconds to beat Gatlin by nearly two-tenths, thumbing his chest as he crossed the line to add the 200m to his 100m title.
The clear victory extends Bolt's domination of sprinting, which stretches back to when he took the world by storm at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, also at the Bird's Nest stadium.
I knew I wasn't in the shape for a world record. But when it comes to the 200m, I am a different person, I was beaten there only once
Gatlin, who has served two doping bans and finished just one-hundredth of a second behind Bolt in Sunday's 100m, clocked 19.74, with South African Anaso Jobodwana taking bronze with a national record of 19.87 at the world championships.
The victory meant Bolt has now remarkably won 11 of the past 12 individual Olympic and world sprint titles dating back to Beijing 2008, his only blip coming after a false start in the 100m at the 2011 worlds in Daegu.
"There was no doubt," said Bolt, who has had pelvic problems this season and did not consider an attempt on his own world record of 19.19, set in 2009.
"I knew I wasn't in the shape for a world record. But when it comes to the 200m, I am a different person, I was beaten there only once.
