Topic: Melaine Walker

This isn't the best way to go about celebrating your newly won world title.. Melaine Walker of Jamaica had just triumphed in the 400m hurdles when she decided on an impromptu lap of honour on the back of the championship's ...

Bolt reigns supreme after 200m world mark

BERLIN (Reuters) - Jamaica's Usain Bolt shattered his own 200 meters world record on Thursday to win gold at the world championships in a breathtaking 19.19 seconds and secure his place as the greatest sprinter ever seen.One year exactly after ...
Melaine Walker of Jamaica wins women's 400-meter hurdles at world championshipsOlympic champion Melaine Walker of Jamaica won the gold medal in the women's 400-meters hurdles at the world championships in the second-fastest time in history.Walker finished in 52.42 ...

Bolt wins 100m title in season world-best 9.86

Beijing Olympic double sprint champion Usain Bolt won the 100 meters at the Jamaican Athletics Championships in 9.86 seconds, the fastest wind-legal time in the world this year.Bolt, running into a 0.2m/sec headwind and racing in lane four ...

Bolt snags Jamaica's Sportsman of Year award

The honours keep piling up for triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, who was named Jamaica's Sportsman of the Year for 2008 on Friday.The announcement by the RJR Sports Foundation came as no surprise. Bolt, who electrified the Beijing Games ...

Danvers has to settle for third place once more

Britain's Natasha Danvers finished in third place behind Melaine Walker and Anna Jesien in last night's 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Lausanne. Danvers, the Olympic bronze medallist, lost second place to her Polish rival by ...