Felix restores US sprint pride with third 200m title
Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:27.
Berlin - Allyson Felix restored American sprint pride when she beat Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica for a third straight 200 metres world title on Friday night.
Felix ran away from her rival on the home stretch and clocked 22.02 seconds on a cool evening after a thunderstorm.
Campbell-Brown took silver like in 2007 in 22.35 seconds and the bronze went to Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas in 22.41 seconds.
It was the first sprint win of the US over the Jamaicans since 2007 as Usain Bolt and company dominated the Americans 5-0 at the Beijing Olympics 2008 and led 3-0 in Berlin from Bolt's double and Shelly-Ann Fraser's 100m win. (dpa)
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