Sprinter Bolt fails to beat 300 metre world record at Ostrava

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt narrowly failed to set a new 300 metres world record before a sell-out crowd of 22,000 at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on Thursday night. The holder of the world records at 100 and 200 metres ran the distance in 30.97 seconds. The record set in 2000 by Michael Johnson is 30.85 seconds.