BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – NEWS reaching here confirms that Kim Collins continues to maintain his position among the top athletes of the world.
On Friday, May 25 Collins (SKN) came in behind Usain Bolt (Ja) in the 100m dash at the Golden Spike meet in OSTRAVA, Czech Republic.
Collins was in the lead for a good part of the race but Bolt pulled ahead in the final stretch. Final times recorded were 10.04 for Bolt and 10.19 for Collins
As reported in the Telegraph.co.uk, “The evergreen but ancient Kim Collins got away to a swift one, but Bolt seemed dreadfully heavy-legged as he finally got on terms at about 70 metres and went on to beat him by 0.15sec".
This was one of the slowest times for Bolt who has won three gold medals at Olympics and holds records for the 100m. This time around he was unable to beat the record of 9.83 held by Asafa Powell at OSTRAVA in May 2010.
The results were as follows:
Rank Athlete Nation Result Reaction time
1 BOLT, Usain JAM 10.04 0.180
2 COLLINS, Kim SKN 10.19 0.127
3 PATTON, Darvis USA 10.22 0.156
4 CLARKE, Lerone JAM 10.26 0.161
5 CHAMBERS, Dwain GBR SB 10.28 0.158
SKNVibes sends heartiest congratulations to Kim for maintaining his world class status and keeping St. Kitts Nevis on the world stage.
Golden Spike (Zlatá tretra in Czech) is an annual athletics event at the Mestský Stadium in Ostrava-Vítkovice, Czech Republic as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings. It was first organized in 1961.
