Absent Gay leaves 200m open and Ndure takes it away from Spearmon

Wallace Spearmon looked set for gold at 200m in the 5th IAAF World Athletics Final from Stuttgart, Germany yet it was not to be his race.....

Spearmon took it too easy and Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (NOR) – running for his life was well ahead of him at the finish.

Ndure, a Gambian now from Norway, took his personal best down by 0.58 seconds.

Ndure’s improvement in an event where half second improvements can take years to dial in has been the subject of a fair bit of comment : though for now let's not detract from his first dip into the sub-20 second zone....

1. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (NOR) 19.89
2. Wallace Spearmon (USA) 20.18
3. Rodney Martin (USA) 20.27
4. Johan Wissman (SWE) 20.30
5. Christopher Williams (JAM) 20.39
6. Joshua J. Johnson (USA) 20.48
7. Brian Dzingai (ZIM) 20.56
8. Paul Hession (IRL) 20.58