World champion Yohan Blake won the men’s 100m dash at Tuesday’s Spitzenleichtathletik meet (EA Classic) at the Stadium Allmand in Luzern. Blake, who beat world record holder and reigning Olympic Games champion Usain Bolt in both sprint events at the Jamaica track and field trials last month clocked 9.85 seconds to take the event. The star of the night, got away to a good start and then... 

NEW YORK — A fast time was promised but not even David Rudisha himself was expecting such fast time to win the men’s 800m race at the adidas Grand Prix – IAAF Diamond League meeting in New York on Saturday. The Kenyan World record holder and world champion said at his press conference that he was hoping to run in the 1:42 range, but stunned his competition once again – this... 

Reigning World Indoor 60 metres champion Justin Gatlin will step up his Olympic Games preparation with a 200 metres at the Tom Jones Memorial Meet here in Florida on Saturday. Gatlin, who is yet to decide on whether he will race in both sprint events at the U.S. trials, has enjoyed a very productive 2012 season so far and is looking forward to taking on the likes of Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Walter Dix,... 

By Gary Smith, World-Track PARIS — World record holder Usain Bolt arrived in Paris Tuesday afternoon and was greeted by meeting director Laurent Boquillet,as he gets ready to run the first of his two 100 metres races before the world championships next month. The Jamaican sprint phenomenon who holds the world record of 9.69seconds in over the 100m, will face a strong field at Friday’s Meeting... 

National champions Kelly Ann Baptists and Richard Thompson will not be amongst the Trinidad and Tobago starters at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Track and Field Championships, which start today in Havana, Cuba. The sprinters, who won their respective 100m division at the T&T trials at the weekend, are among a host of top athletes, including sprinters Marc Burns and Darrell Brown, 400m... 

By Gary Smith, World-Track OSLO, Norway — Former 100 metres World record holder Asafa Powell will continue is preparation for next month’s World Championships in Berlin when he takes on a strong field at Friday’s ExxonMobil Bislett Games – Golden League meeting in Oslo. Powell looks for Berlin boost Powell, who was slowed down for most of the early campaign with an ankle injury... 

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago – Kelly-Ann Baptiste, the first Trinidad & Tobago woman to break the 11-secs barrier, is looking forward to the World Championships optimistically. “My goal is to stay healthy and make the finals at the World Championships", she said "and I think once I am in the finals anything could happen. That is just my main focus right now."……READ... 

By Gary Smith, World-Track PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Speedsters Kelly Ann Baptiste and Richard Thompson will start their hunt for sprint titles on the second day of competition at the Trinidad Track and Field Championships on Saturday. Thompson, the Olympic 100m silver medallist from Beijing a year ago, will take on heavy weights such as Darel Brown, still searching to find his running form this...