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Summary Usain Bolt easily won 200 metres event at the Diamond League Athletic Championship.
Usain Bolt defied gusting winds to blaze to victory over 200 metres at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting in 20.03 seconds to claim his first victory on Swedish soil. In his final race before he heads to Daegu, South Korea, next month to defend his 100 and 200 world titles, the Jamaican fell well short of his seasons best of 19.86 set in the rain in Oslo last month.Running into a headwind of 1.2 metres, Bolt led almost from the start, cruising comfortably into the curve and powering home after suffering defeats over 100 metres in his only two previous races in Stockholm.In the women’s event, Kenyas Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot ran the third-fastest womens 5,000 ever, clocking 14:20.87.Russias world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva returned from a hand injury to post a seasons best jump of 4.76 metres to win the womens pole vault ahead of Germanys Silke Spiegelburg.South African 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya had a disappointing evening, finishing eighth in a time of 2:01.28. The race was won by Kenia Sinclair of Jamaica in a time of 1:58.21 seconds.
