World record holder Usain Bolt will take on his Jamaican compatriot and season best holder Steve Mullings in the 100 metres race topping up the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava on Tuesday. The 24-year-old Bolt, out of the business for nine months since he was beaten by American Tyson Gay in Stockholm last August, made an impressive comeback in Rome last Thursday, covering the distance in a winning 9.91 seconds.
The next step for the world record holder over 100m and 200m and Olympic and world champion in both is now to face the 28-year-old Mullings who clocked this season’s lead time of 9.89sec in April.
Another rival in the competition in the industrial eastern Czech city of Ostrava will be the 35-year-old Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter Kim Collins, the world 100m champion from 2003, with a season’s best of 10.05sec. Cuban Dayron Robles, who set the current 110m hurdles world record at 12.78sec in Ostrava in 2008, will againbe back in action after equalling this year’s best of 13.07sec in Hengelo two days ago.
He will face US rivals Terrence Trammell and Jeff Porter, and Frenchman Ladji Doucoure, over the hurdles.
Shawn Crawford, the 2004 Olympic winner, will take on Jamaicans Yohan Blake and Marvin Anderson in the 200m.
