News | Bolt, Oliver dominant in Paris | Universal Sports
Olympic and World champion Usain Bolt has won the 100 meters at the Paris Diamond League meet in 9.84 seconds.Bolt won ahead of fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell, who finished in 9.91. Another Jamaican sprinter, Yohan Blake, was third in 9.95.
Bolt and Powell, who share the fastest time this year at 9.82 seconds, met for the first time this season.
Powell is the last man to have beaten Bolt in the 100, two years ago in Stockholm. Bolt, the world record holder in the 100 and 200, is now unbeaten at 100 for 14 consecutive finals.
American David Oliver recorded the fastest time in the world this year in the 110m hurdles. Oliver, a bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics, powered home in an American-record time of 12.89 seconds, two-hundredths of a second behind the 2008 world record set by Cuba’s Dayron Robles, who pulled out of the meeting at the last minute.
In the first race of the evening, held under sunny skies in the Stade de France, former world and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner coasted home in 44.49 seconds, a world leading time.
“Another world lead in the last two weeks. I still have three races this season and the goal is to run at least one of them under 44 seconds,” the American said after the race.
In the men’s 3,000m steeplechase, Olympic champion Brimin Kipruto of Kenya set a season’s best of eight minutes 0.90 seconds, ahead of compatriot Paul Kipsiele Koech.
The women’s 5,000 metres was comfortably won by Kenya’s world champion Vivian Cheruiyot, who shaved nearly three seconds off the world’s best time this year by coming home in 14 minutes 27.41 seconds
