Blake blazes home

Jamaican sets second fastest 200M time in history

Blake, who won the world 100 title in Daegu last month after Bolt was disqualified from the final, stunned the capacity crowd by clocking 19.26, just seven-hundreds of a second behind Bolt's world record of 19.19 seconds set in Berlin in 2009.

Blake, the man seen as the main challenger to Bolt's surpremacy, said he was surprised by the time.  Bolt, the Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion, failed to deliver in the 100 in Daegu after leaving the blocks too early, and was far from the first to rise on Friday, needing to drive hard to push past fellow Jamaican Nesta Carter. His time of 9.76 was two hundredths of a second quicker than the previous season best of Asafa Powell set in June.

Men: 100M: Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 9.76, 1; Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 9.89, 2; Lerone Clarke (Jamaica) 10.05, 3. 200M: Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 19.26, 1; Walter Dix (US) 19.53, 2; Nickel Ashmeade (Jamaica) 19.91, 3. 400M: Jonathan Borlee (Belgium) 44.78, 1; Kevin Borlee (Belgium), 44.97, 2; Oscar Pistorius (South Africa) 45.46, 3. 800M: David Rudisha (Kenya) 1:43.96, 1; Mohammed Aman (Ethiopia) 1:44.29, 2; Asbel Kiprop (Kenya) 1:44.46, 3. 5000M: Imane Merga (Ethiopia) 12:58.32, 1; Thomas Longosiwa (Kenya) 12:58.70, 2; Vincent Kiprop Chepkok (Kenya) 12:59.50, 3. 10000M: Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 26:43.16, 1; Lucas Kimeli Rotich (Kenya) 26:43.98, 2; Galen Rupp (US) 26:48.00, 3. 400M hurdles: Javier Culson (Puerto Rico) 48.32 seconds, 1; David Greene (Britain) 48.78, 2; Cornel Fredericks (South Africa) 48.96, 3.
Pole vault: Konstadinos Filippidis (Greece) 5.72 metres, 1; Renaud Lavillenie (France) 5.72, 2; Malte Mohr (Germany) 5.62, 3. Triple jump: Benjamin Compaore (France) 17.31 metres, 1; Sheryf El-Sheryf (Ukraine) 16.93, 2; Alexis Copello (Cuba) 16.89, 3. Shot Put: Reese Hoffa (US) 22.09 metres, 1; Christian Cantwell (US) 22.07, 2; Andrei Mikhnevich (Belarus) 21.56, 3. Javelin: Matthias De Zordo (Germany) 88.36 metres, 1; Vadims Vasilevskis (Latvia) 85.06, 2; Fatih Avan (Turkey) 84.79, 3.
Women: 100M: Carmelita Jeter (US) 10.78 seconds, 1; Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica) 10.85, 2; Kelly-Ann Baptiste (Trinidad and Tobago) 10.90, 3.
400M: Amantle Montsho (Botswana) 50.16 seconds, 1; Novlene Williams-Mills (Jamaica) 50.72, 2; Tatyana Firova (Russia) 50.84, 3. 1500M: Morgan Uceny (US) 4:00.06, 1; Mariem Alaoui Selsouli (Morocco) 4:00.77, 2; Maryam Yusuf Jamal (Bahrain) 4:01.40, 3. 100M hurdles: Danielle Carruthers (US) 12.65 seconds, 1; Yvette Lewis (US) 12.77, 2; Kellie Wells (US) 12.77, 3. 3000M steeplechase: Yuliya Zaripova (Russia) 9:15.43, 1; Habiba Ghribi (Tunisia) 9:16.57, 2; Mercy Njoroge (Kenya) 9:20.09, 3.
High jump: Anna Chicherova (Russia) 2.05 metres, 1; Yelena Slesarenko (Russia) 1.96, 2; Ebba Jungmark (Sweden) 1.93, 3. Triple jump: Olha Saladuha (Ukraine) 14.67 metres, 1; Mabel Gay (Cuba) 14.58, 2; Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan) 14.49, 3.
Discus: Li Yanfeng (China) 66.27 metres, 1; Yarelis Barrios (Cuba) 65.33, 2; Zaneta Glanc (Poland) 62.78, 3.