Bolt powers to golden treble at Moscow Games to equal Carl Lewis's World Championships record

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ANI Johannesburg
Last Updated : Aug 19 2013 | 10:00 AM IST

World's fastest man Usain Bolt got his eighth world championship gold medal when he anchored the Jamaican 4x100m relay team to victory at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Sunday, equalling Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and Allyson Felix.

According to Sport24, it was the Jamaican's eighth world gold medal after winning the 100 and 200m at the Berlin worlds in 2009, the 200m in Daegu in 2011, the 100 and 200m in Moscow this week, as well as golds as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay squads in both 2009, 2011 and now 2013.

The team of individual 100m bronze medalist Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade and Bolt clocked 37.36sec in the race at a packed Luzhniki Stadium, the report said.

It marked another memorable week for Bolt, who first reclaimed his world 100m title in Moscow in emphatic style, clocking a season's best 9.77sec in heavy rain, the report added.

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First Published: Aug 19 2013 | 9:52 AM IST

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