TYSON GAY BEATS USAIN BOLT OVER 100M FOR FIRST TIME
Baku, August 7 (AZERTAC). Tyson Gay handed Usain Bolt only his second professional 100m defeat as the American stormed to victory at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm.
Gay clocked 9.84 seconds to beat the fit-again 23-year-old Jamaican by 0.13s and record his first ever win over the World and Olympic champion over 100m.
In a race missing injured Asafa Powell, Richard Thompson was third in 10.10s.
With perfect conditions in Sweden for sprinting, Bolt and Gay - the world`s two fastest 100m runners in history - exchanged a touch of hands as they prepared to face each other over this distance for only the third time.
Despite the Jamaican having struggled this season with an Achilles tendon injury, few would have expected the manner in which the 27-year-old from Kentucky cruised through in Sweden`s 1912 Olympic stadium.
Bolt`s last defeat came at the same Stockholm track in 2008 when Jamaican compatriot Powell took victory.
Since that reversal, Bolt had enjoyed 14 successive wins, including the last time he clashed with Gay at the Berlin World Championships last year.
It was in that race Bolt set the current 100m world record of 9.58s and was the last time he defeated Gay, one year after their first head-to-head in New York in 2008.
Gay`s Diamond League winning time was only two hundredths of a second slower than the season`s best of 9.82s - a time run by both Bolt and Powell.
Powell, Gay and Bolt are scheduled to face each other at the final Diamond League meeting of the year in Brussels on 27 August.
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