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AT&T USA Outdoor T&F Champs: Gay makes more history in AT&T men’s 200m

Posted June 24th, 2007 at 5:13 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Tyson Gay 2007 USA Track & Field Championships Undeterred by a soggy track and slight headwind, Tyson Gay cemented his status as the world’s dominant sprinter by winning the AT&T men’s 200 meters in the second-fastest time in history Sunday at AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. In addition to two national titles, Gay came away from the meet with the men’s Visa Championship as the top male performer of the Visa Championship Series, while Tiffany Williams was women’s Visa Champion.

The final meet of the 2007 Visa Championship Series, the AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships serves as the Team USA selection competition for the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Osaka. The top three finishers in each event who have achieved the IAAF “A” standard make the team.

Already having won the 100m on Friday night in a meet-record 9.84, Gay put on another impressive display Sunday in the 200. Coming off the curve, he held a huge lead and continued to win in 19.62 seconds (0.3 meters-per-second headwind), the #2 time ever, behind only Michael Johnson’s world record of 19.32 from the 1996 Olympics. It breaks Johnson’s meet record of 19.66 set in 1996, which at the time was a world record.

World Championships silver medalist and defending U.S. champion Wallace Spearmon, Gay’s training partner, began to close in the final meters but had too much distance to make up. Spearmon ended up second in 19.89, with Rodney Martin third in 20.18 and Jeremy Wariner fourth in 20.35.

Written by: Jill Greer
Via: USA Track & Field

PHOTO: Tyson Gay after winning the 100m final at the 2007 USA Track & Field in Indianapolis, IN (Courtesy of Scott Sanders)