Usain Bolt en route to his dazzling 9.76 in Kingston (© Getty Images)
American sprint star Tyson Gay, the reigning 100m World champion, and Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, who last weekend stunned the sports world when he ran the second-fastest 100m in history, will meet at 100 metres at the Reebok Grand Prix - IAAF World Athletics Tour - meeting on 21 May, organizers announced today.
Gay, who in 2007 became only the second man in history to win World Championship gold medals at 100m, 200m and the 4x100m relay, last year scorched the Icahn Stadium track in New York when he won in 9.76 seconds, which would have broken the World record at the time had it not been for a tailwind (2.2) barely over the legal limit.
After his triumph in Osaka, the 25-year-old Gay was named the IAAF Male Athlete of the Year, USOC Sportsman of the Year, Track & Field News Magazine Man of the Year and winner of the Jesse Owens Award.
Bolt, the 21-year-old Jamaican who took the 200m and 4x100m World Championship silver medals behind Gay in Osaka, is the 2002 World Junior champion at 200m and holds the World Junior Record of 19.93 seconds for the distance.
At the Jamaica International Invitational on 3 May, Bolt blazed to a 100m victory in 9.76 seconds, the second-fastest time in history behind only countryman Asafa Powell’s 9.74, which Powell set late last summer.
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Barbara Huebner for the IAAF