Powell dashes 9.86, Campbell-Brown 22.26, world lead for Kovago in Budapest
31 July 2011 – Fast and dominating victories by Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown and a world-leading effort in the Discus Throw by Zoltan Kovago highlighted the inaugural Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Budapest on Saturday.
Powell, the current 100m world leader at 9.78, produced what was arguably his finest day of the season. After a smooth 9.90 (wind +1.8) in the preliminary round, the former World record holder clocked 9.86 (+2.0) in the final, to win by a hefty margin over Zimbabwean national record holder Ngonidzashe Makusham who stopped the clock in 10.16.
It was Powell’s fifth victory in seven competitions this season – in late May he was second to Usain Bolt in Rome and was forced to pull up with a minor injury in Rabat, Morocco – which puts the 28-year-old firmly among the favourites at the upcoming IAAF World Championships. In the process, he easily supplanted Linford Christie (10.03, 1987) as the Hungarian All-Comers record holder and was awarded the Dr. Bojidar Spiriev Trophy, named in honor of the man behind the official IAAF scoring tables, for producing the best performance of the meeting.
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