Bolt leads Jamaican team at the worlds
China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-17 07:56
KINGSTON - Reigning double world champion Usain Bolt heads Jamaica's team for the 2011 athletics World Championships, a squad that inclues three more defending champions but not provisionally suspended Steve Mullings.
Bolt, winner of the men's 100m and 200m in world record times of 9.58 sec and 19.19, in Berlin, Germany, two years ago, will be joined in Jamaica's strong 50-member delegation by fellow defending champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who took the women's 100m, women's 400m hurdles champion Melaine Walker and Brigitte Foster-Hylton, the women's 100m hurdles winner.
Asafa Powell, who is still in search of his first global title in the men's 100m joins Bolt in the event along with Yohan Blake.
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