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Mullings blazes 9.90 at Jace Lacoste Meet
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
STEVE Mullings has fired the first salvo in what is expected to be a heated battle for places on Jamaica's men's sprint team to the 13th IAAF World Championships later this year in Daegu.
The Jamaican speedster ran a brilliant world-leading 9.90 seconds at the Jace Lacoste Memorial Invitational Meet at Mississippi State University's Carl Maddox Track Complex in Starkville, Mississippi on Saturday.
With world record holder Usain Bolt already certain of his place in the World Championships being the defending champion, three places will be up for grabs at the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association's National Senior Trials in June in both events.
Mullings, who attended Mississippi State after leaving Vere Technical and Barton County Junior College, easily won the 100m/200m double on Saturday on his way to becoming the fifth fastest Jamaican ever over the shorter sprint.
Pushed by the maximum allowable win of 2.0 metres per second, Mullings scorched to 9.90 seconds, easily beating a field of College runners and moved seven places up the Jamaican 100m performances and became the 10th Jamaican to run under 10 seconds.
Mullings' new personal best trailing only four other Jamaicans, Bolt's WR 9.58 seconds set at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, two years ago; Asafa Powell's former world record 9.72 seconds set in Lausanne in September 2008; Nesta Carter's 9.78 seconds set last year in Rieti, Italy and Yohan Blake's 9.89 seconds set in London in August last year.
A 200m finalist and relay gold medallist at the World Championships in 2009, Mullings' personal best up to then was 10.01 seconds done at a meet in Rome in 2009 and he passed Mario Forsythe's 9.95 seconds, Ray Stewart's 9.96 seconds, Michael Frater's 9.97 seconds, Percival Spencer's 9.98 seconds, Lerone Clarke's 9.99 seconds and Dwight Thomas' 10.00 seconds on the Jamaican list.
Mullings, who is being conditioned by Lance Braumann in Claremont, Florida, also won the 200m in 20.17 seconds, but the wind was just over the limit at 2.2m/s.
Blake ran 20.33 seconds Saturday night at the UTech Classic at the National Stadium for the world lead.
Another Jamaican Dwight Mullings was in the same race and finished fourth in 20.95 seconds.
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
STEVE Mullings has fired the first salvo in what is expected to be a heated battle for places on Jamaica's men's sprint team to the 13th IAAF World Championships later this year in Daegu.
The Jamaican speedster ran a brilliant world-leading 9.90 seconds at the Jace Lacoste Memorial Invitational Meet at Mississippi State University's Carl Maddox Track Complex in Starkville, Mississippi on Saturday.
With world record holder Usain Bolt already certain of his place in the World Championships being the defending champion, three places will be up for grabs at the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association's National Senior Trials in June in both events.
Mullings, who attended Mississippi State after leaving Vere Technical and Barton County Junior College, easily won the 100m/200m double on Saturday on his way to becoming the fifth fastest Jamaican ever over the shorter sprint.
Pushed by the maximum allowable win of 2.0 metres per second, Mullings scorched to 9.90 seconds, easily beating a field of College runners and moved seven places up the Jamaican 100m performances and became the 10th Jamaican to run under 10 seconds.
Mullings' new personal best trailing only four other Jamaicans, Bolt's WR 9.58 seconds set at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, two years ago; Asafa Powell's former world record 9.72 seconds set in Lausanne in September 2008; Nesta Carter's 9.78 seconds set last year in Rieti, Italy and Yohan Blake's 9.89 seconds set in London in August last year.
A 200m finalist and relay gold medallist at the World Championships in 2009, Mullings' personal best up to then was 10.01 seconds done at a meet in Rome in 2009 and he passed Mario Forsythe's 9.95 seconds, Ray Stewart's 9.96 seconds, Michael Frater's 9.97 seconds, Percival Spencer's 9.98 seconds, Lerone Clarke's 9.99 seconds and Dwight Thomas' 10.00 seconds on the Jamaican list.
Mullings, who is being conditioned by Lance Braumann in Claremont, Florida, also won the 200m in 20.17 seconds, but the wind was just over the limit at 2.2m/s.
Blake ran 20.33 seconds Saturday night at the UTech Classic at the National Stadium for the world lead.
Another Jamaican Dwight Mullings was in the same race and finished fourth in 20.95 seconds.
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