{"id":21832,"date":"2013-08-12T01:13:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T23:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/usain-bolt-beats-gatlin-to-100m-world-title\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T01:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T23:13:43","slug":"usain-bolt-beats-gatlin-to-100m-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/usain-bolt-beats-gatlin-to-100m-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt beats Gatlin to 100m world title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[13132]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Usain Bolt in celebration about 1 or 2 seconds...\" alt=\"Usain Bolt in celebration about 1 or 2 seconds...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a4e57_300px-Usain_Bolt_Olympics_Celebration.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Usain Bolt in celebration about 1 or 2 seconds after his 100m victory at Beijing Olympics 2008, breaking the world record. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>It took Jamaican Usain Bolt 9.77sec to take the 100m victory at the world championships in Moscow ahead of Justin Gatlin.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt made amends after <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bolt-takes-aim-at-semis-and-final-in-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\">disqualification from the same race two years ago in Daegu<\/a> but was unable to recapture his form from Berlin in 2009, when he won gold in a world-record 9.58sec.<\/p>\n<p>Gatlin claimed silver in 9.85sec and Nesta Carter took bronze with a time of 9.95sec in the Luzhniki stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt was the hot favourite in the absence of the injured 2011 winner Yohan Blake and the 2007 champion Tyson Gay, who had recently failed a dope test.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican had <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bolt-takes-aim-at-semis-and-final-in-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\">sauntered into the final earlier in the evening<\/a> in a time of 9.92sec. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2013\/aug\/11\/usain-bolt-100m-moscow-world-championships\" target=\"_blank\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bolt-takes-aim-at-semis-and-final-in-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a4e57_192733419_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bolt-takes-aim-at-semis-and-final-in-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bolt takes aim at semis and final in Moscow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8bd29_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt in celebration about 1 or 2 seconds after his 100m victory at Beijing Olympics 2008, breaking the world record. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It took Jamaican Usain Bolt 9.77sec to take the 100m victory at the world championships in Moscow ahead of Justin Gatlin. 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