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09 9. 2009 hurdles double thanks to Brigie and Melaine: Michelle Freeman and Deon Hemmings set the pace for Jamaica in the He was perhaps even beer in the 200, scurrying the first half of the final in 9.92 seconds. Short of training work aer a car accident prevented crical 200 metre drills, Bolt nevertheless reached the finish in 19.19 seconds, 0.11 than the record he set a year earlier at the Olympics. 08 8. 2009 Bolt’s WR double in Berlin: No one who was in Berlin at the World Championships will ever forget what Usain Bolt did in the 100 and 200. In the shorter race, the tall Trelawny nave outstarted a field of great starters and ran peerlessly to lower his own world record from 9.69 to 9.58 seconds, with American Tyson Gay taking silver and Jamaican compatriot Asafa Powell third. placed Torri Edwards, and then Williams had won before the correct finish was caponed. 07 7. 2007 VC’s gold breaks the 100‐metre hoodoo: Throughout the country’s storied track and field history, Jamaica had never won gold in a global 100‐metre final. McKenley had come close in 1952 and there were near misses for Donald Quarrie, Cuthbert and Oey. Veronica Campbell broke the old jinx with a nail‐bing win over bubbly American Lauryn Williams. VC leaned sharply to edge Williams who was given the same me, 11.01, with Carmelita Jeter third in 11.02. Ver had to endure some chaos as the fickle scoreboard first had fourth‐
11 11. 2011 False start for Bolt, gold for Blake: The zero‐tolerance false start claimed its biggest vicm in the 2011 World Championships 100‐metre final when the incomparable Usain Bolt miscued his start. A stunned audience in Daegu, South Korea bore witness. When calm 10 10. 2009 Shelly and Kerron go 1‐2 in the 100: Like Bolt and Walker, Fraser repeated her 2008 Olympic victory, but it wasn’t easy. Tracking her every step of the way in the 100 was countrywoman Kerron Stewart. The quick‐starng Fraser survived to win, with a world leading me of 10.73 to 10.75 seconds for Stewart. women’s hurdling events with groundbreaking medals. However, Brigie Foster‐Hylton and Melaine Walker made history by winning the naon’s first gold medals in the exacng discipline. Foster‐Hylton peaked perfectly to lead Prisilla Lopes of Canada and Jamaica teammate Delloreen Ennis across the line in the 100 metre hurdles and Walker confirmed her 2008 Olympic 400 metre hurdles victory with a masterpiece. She dispatched her prime rival Lashinda Demus with the second fastest me ever – 52.43 seconds. returned, 21‐year‐old Yohan Blake mopped up the gold for Jamaica in 9.92 seconds to become the youngest world 100‐metre champion ever.
13 13. 2013 Doubles for Bolt and SAFP: Notwithstanding the heroics dang back to McKenley’s Olympic 100‐metre silver medal in 1952, the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Russia is the meet that solidified Jamaica as the sprint capital of the world. Bolt did a roune to close a supreme effort, a gold medal and a sensaonal world‐ record me of 37.04 seconds. sprint double, with Carter third, Kemar Bailey‐Cole fourth and Nickel Ashmeade fih in the 100 and Warren and Ashmeade second and fourth in the 200. For good measure, Fraser zoomed to her second world 14 14. 2015 Bolt edges Gatlin: Subpar throughout 2015 due to injury, Bolt stepped off the physical therapist’s table to face an in‐form Jusn Gatlin at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, China. Gatlin was impressive in the 100‐metre tle in the 100 and took the 200. To top things off, Jamaica won both 4x100 finals, with Bolt and Fraser taking the baton across the finish line in consecuve relay races. rounds and in the final, stormed away from the blocks. Then Bolt built his legend with a paent, persistent pursuit that cracked Gatlin near the final. The American faltered and Bolt squeezed past with a season’s best 9.79 to Gatlin’s 9.80. The tall man had turned the 100 into a Hitchcock thriller. 15. 2015 UPSET by Danielle Williams: At 22, Danielle Williams was rising fast in the 100‐metre hurdles. However, she pulled off a monumental upset in Beijing to become
12 15 12. 2011 WR 4x100 37.04: Bolt returned to defend his 200‐ metre tle in 19.40 seconds but he wasn’t finished. Teaming with Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Blake, he blazed his anchor leg
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