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Powell gets back world record but shares it with Gatlin

Thursday, May 18, 2006

by: Gary Smith
Caribbean Net News Sports Correspondent
Email: gary@caribbeannetnews.com

KINGSTON, Jamaica: American Justin Gatlin's performance in Qatar was very fast, but apparently not fast enough to break the 100m world record after his previous time of 9.76 was changed to 9.77.

In a release on Wednesday, Tissot Timing, the company that provided the results at the Super Grand Prix meet in Doha, Qatar, last Friday, informed the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), track and field's world governing body, that the result was actually 9.766 seconds before it was rounded off to the new world record.

According to the IAAF rules, the final timing should have been manually rounded up to 9.77 and not down to the initial time of 9.76.

This announcement now means that Gatlin has joined archival rival Asafa Powell of Jamaica, who had produced the current record time last year in Athens as co-world record holder in the event.

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