Bolt to compete in Lausanne
Published:Wednesday | June 3, 2009 | 12:42 PM
Bolt will compete at the Athletissima 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He will line up in his favourite event, the 200 metres.
Last year, the towering sprinter flashed to 19.63 seconds in winning the event in a slight head win, just weeks before sizzling to his world record mark in Beijing.
The organisers have also confirmed that Cuban world 110 metre hurdles record holder Dayron Robles will make an appearance.
Also expected to compete at the meet are Australian pole-vaulter Steve Hooker, along with Panama’s Olympic and world long jump champion Irving Saladino and former world champion Bernard Lagat.
In the meantime, Bolt says he wants to meet American Tyson Gay before the World Championship in Berlin from August 15 to 23.
Gay, who claimed the 100, 200 double at the last World Championship in Osaka, ran 19.58 seconds for the longer sprint at a grand prix event in New York on Saturday.
It was the third fastest 200 metres, only beaten by Bolt’s world record 19.30 seconds in Beijing and Michael Johnson’s 19.32 seconds from the Atlanta Olympics.
Bolt says he is looking forward to a showdown with Gay soon.