After two silvers, Allyson is finally a 200m golden girl

Allyson Felix was able to put the disappointment of two consecutive silver medals in the women’s 200 meters to claim the gold medal she so desired last night.

Felix, runner-up in Athens and Beijing to Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown, overcame a sluggish start to lead coming off the bend and was never going to be caught, the 26-year-old clocking a time of 21.88s to finish 0.21s ahead of 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

America’s Carmelita Jeter, silver medallist over 100m, took bronze with Campbell-Brown fourth and failing in her bid to become the first woman to win a track event for three Olympics in succession.