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Tyson Gay impresses at US trials

Updated on: 23 June,2013 02:26 AM IST  | 
AFP |

Tyson Gay won the 100m at the US athletics championships in an impressive 9.75 sec to stamp himself America's top World Championships challenger to Jamaican Usain Bolt.

Tyson Gay impresses at US trials

Gay, trailing out of the blocks, exploded near the midway point and powered home to win in the fastest time in the world this year.


Tyson Gay
Tyson Gay


Justin Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic gold medallist who handed six-time Olympic champion Bolt a rare defeat in Rome this month, just couldn’t match Gay in the closing stages. Running warily with a mild right hamstring strain, Gatlin finished second in 9.89.

Charles Silmon seized the third World Championships berth on offer by the narrowest of margins, finishing third in 9.98sec (9.972) with Michael Rodgers relegated to fourth by just two-thousandths of a second (9.974).u00a0


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