Bolt runs 100m in 9.77 in Ostrava

At the Golden Spike meet on Wednesday in Ostrava, Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt recorded a time of 9.77 seconds for the 100-metres. Speaking after the race, the Jamaican sprinter said he was ‘happy’ to have got under the 10 second mark and to have run injury free. Bolt’s time would have been a record for the meeting and indeed for the Czech Republic, but the sprinter was running with a strong tailwind of 2.1 metres per second. Bolt recovered from a sluggish start to beat the rest of the field by over one quarter of a second. Afterwards, he said that he had had quite possibly the ‘second worst’ start of his whole career.