Bolt breaks world record

Usain Bolt tonight won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the World Championships in Berlin, in an unofficial world record time of 19.20 seconds.

Bolt had said after the 100m he did not think a 200m record was on after missing a month of training earlier this year following a car crash in Jamaica.

“I can definitely say I didn’t expect that because I was a little bit tired,” he told the BBC. “I said let’s try because people are really looking out for this, I said it won’t hurt to try. So I tried really hard and now I’m really tired.

“Maybe next time I should just run the 200m or the 100m alone. My form was going backwards. I wasn’t running upright. It wasn’t a good race but it was a fast one.”