World record-holder Usain Bolt sprinted to a another victory Sunday, winning a 200-meter race in Greece. The Jamaican star covered the distance in 19.68 seconds. Wallace Spearmon of the United States finished second in 20.21. Bolt's world mark in the 200, established in the recent World Championships,

Jamaica's Usain Bolt ran 100 meters in 9.58 seconds at the World Track Championships in Berlin Sunday, breaking his own world record. Bolt cut .11 seconds from his previous mark, set at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. It was the biggest change in the 100-meter world record since electronic timing was introduced 41 years ago. American Tyson Gay was second in 9.71 seconds, a record for a U.S.

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Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay coasted into the 100-meter semifinals Saturday and Christian Cantwell won the first American gold at the World Track Championships. Linet Masai of Kenya also won a dramatic women's 10,000-meter and Russia's Valeriy Borchin added the 20-kilometer walk title to his Olympic gold medal from last year. Bolt became a track superstar in Beijing, winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes in world record time and then anchoring the Jamaican sprint relay team to another world mark. He won his first-round 100-meter heat Saturday in Berlin in 10.20 and appeared to simply trot to a second-place finish in the quarterfinals with a time of 10.03. Gay, who won the world title for the United States two years ago but who was injured for last year's Olympics, turned in times of 10.16 and 9.98 in his two heats. The semifinals and finals will be Sunday, with Bolt's world record of 9.69 in jeopardy. Cantwell finished second to Poland's Tomasz Majewski in the shot put at Beijing, but they

The 12th World Track and Field Championships begin Saturday and the stars of the show will make an immediate appearance in Berlin. Usain Bolt of Jamaica, who dominated the sprints while setting world records at the Beijing Olympics, will begin his run through the 100-meter heats en route to a potential gold medal performance on Sunday. Bolt's chief challenger is expected to be defending world champion Tyson Gay of the United States, who has regained his form after struggling through an injury-plagued Olympic year. Three finals will be held on the first day of the nine-day competition, those coming in the men's 20-kilometer walk, the women's 10,000-meter run and the men's shot put. The center of attention, however, will be the 100, in which the first two rounds will be held.