Inside Athletics

Fri05182012

Last update11:29:43 PM

Collins to join backmarkers for Stawell Gift

Former world champion Kim Collins, who has run the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds four times, will race in this year's Stawell Gift.

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When he hits the grass of western Victoria at Easter Collins will be 35, having dabbled once with retirement in 2009. He made his comeback to the track this year and has run the second-fastest time over 60 metres in 2011. The gift is over 120 metres.

Collins, from the tiny Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis, won the world 100 metres championship in Paris in 2003, becoming the first West Indian to do so. He has since been followed by Jamaican Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world and the dominant figure in world sprinting.

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