Bolt wins 150 metres in record time

Jamaica’s Olympic sprint hero Usain Bolt won the 150 metres Manchester Street Race in a world-best 14.35 seconds yesterday in England.



Bolt’s time was the quickest ever over the distance, topping the previous best of 14.99 set by Donovan Bailey 12 years go. Pietro Mennea of Italy ran a hand-time 14.8 in 1983.



The last 100 was run in 8.70, considerably faster than his world record time of 9.69 that won Olympic gold last August.



Marlon Devonish of Britain was second in 15.07 seconds, followed by Ivory Williams of the United States and Britain’s Rikki Fifton in the four man race.



Last month, Bolt suffered minor foot injuries when his BMW M3 ran off the road and crashed into a ditch on a highway just outside Kingston.



Bahamian Debbie McKenzie-Ferguson made it a Caribbean sprint double when she won the women’s 10 metres in 16.54 sconds dismissing Britain’s Olympic and World Championship 400 metre gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu 17.10.



Earlier, Ethiopian legend Haile Gebrselassie comfortably won the Great Manchester Run over 10 kilometres in 27 minutes, 39 seconds ahead of Libya’s Ali Zaied 28 minutes 13 seconds and Ukraine’s Sergiy Lebid 28 minutes 36 seconds.