Bolt Labours To Victory At Golden Spike Meet

Usain Bolt was sluggish in

            winning the 100m in 10.04 seconds as Dwain Chambers finished fifth in the Golden Spike meeting in the Czech Republic.

Just two months before the Olympics, the Jamaican world record holder looked far from his best in Ostrava.

Britain’s Chambers clocked a season’s best time of 10.28 but remains short of the London 2012 qualifying time.

Kim Collins of St Kitts and St Nevis came second in 10.19, with American Darvis Patton third in 10.22.

Chambers was given the right to compete at the Games when a British Olympic Association by-law that banned drug cheats from competing at Olympics was overturned.

Like him, Mark Lewis-Francis missed out on the Olympic qualification time of 10.18 despite winning the ‘B’ race.

However, Chambers, who was competing in his first major meeting in six years, could at least reflect on a significant improvement from the 10.52 recently recorded in Puerto Rico – his second slowest time in 15 years.

He said: “More than anything I’m pleased with the way I felt during the run. I felt really good to 80 metres and just need to work on that part now, the last 20 metres of the race. The only way that happens is with more competition at this level.

Meanwhile, Christine Ohuruogu met the A standard in the women’s 400m as she finished second behind the United States’ Sanya Richards-Ross.

Tiffany Porter, recently GB’s captain at the World Indoors in Turkey, won the 100m hurdles in 12.65, while fellow Brit Perri-Shakes Drayton met the B standard in finishing third in the 400m hurdles.