Anaso Jobodwana wins bronze medal

South Africa’s Anaso Jobodwana dipped under 20 seconds for the first time to take the bronze medal in the 200m final at the world championships in Beijing‚ coming third to Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and the US’s Justin Gatlin.

Jobodwana’s personal best set a new South African record and produced one of the greatest short distance sprints in the country’s history.

Bolt’s victory followed his victory in the 100m at the championships‚ giving him a clean sweep over Gatlin‚ the only man to challenge his dominance over world sprinting.

Bolt clocked 19.55 seconds to extend his domination of global sprinting since taking the world by storm at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the same Bird's Nest stadium.

Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, clocked 19.74sec, with South African Anaso Jobodwana taking bronze with a national record of 19.87sec.

The victory meant Bolt has now remarkably won 11 of the last 12 individual Olympic and world sprint titles since shooting to fame at the Beijing Games, his only blip coming after a false start in the 100m at the 2011 worlds in Daegu.