Monday, August 17, 2009 BERLIN: Jamaican Usain Bolt added the world crown to his Olympic title as he scored to victory in a world record 9.58 seconds in the men's 100m final at the World Athletics Championships here on Sunday.Billed as the first of three potential Berlin duels between Bolt and American reigning world champion on Gay, the 22-year-old show-boating Jamaican crushed the field and smashed his own record of 9.69sec set in similarly spectacular fashion at the Beijing Olympics final.Gay claimed silver in 9.71sec, finishing a good couple of metres off Bolt, with former world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica clocking 9.84sec for bronze.Bolt, who took the Beijing Games by storm last summer, winning all three Olympic sprint golds and all in world record times, had overcome a nervy semi-final in which he false started for the first-ever time in his career.But when it came to the final, he enjoyed his normal start, his head staying down over the first 40 metres before slowl...
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