Gatlin 'record' Rounded Up

Athletics: IAAF declares Justin Gatlin ran 9.766sec in Doha and must now share 100m mark with Asafa Powell.

Justin Gatlin has been denied the world 100m record he thought he had set at the Doha Super Grand Prix meeting last Friday after a mistake in the reading of the result.

The American world and Olympic champion clocked a time of 9.76sec in Doha, which lowered the previous best, set by Asafa Powell 11 months earlier, by one hundredth of a second.

However, world governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have now said that Gatlin actually ran 9.766sec and their regulations state that his performance should have been manually rounded up to 9.77.

They have now adjusted Gatlin's mark which, pending ratification, will equal the Jamaican Powell's world record mark set last June in Athens.

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