OSAKA, Japan - Fresh from becoming the second Jamaican man after Chris Williams in 2001 to win a 200-metre silver medal in the 22-year history of the IAAF World Championships, Usain Bolt has showered praise on his coach, the highly-respected Glen Mills.

"He did pretty well, because we really planned to work towards this (medal)," Bolt told the Observer, referring to coach Mills and the work he did to get him ready for the 11th edition of the World Championships.

"He's been training me for three years now and we started working from scratch and I think he would be pretty proud of me now, because I did well and accomplished what we wanted to," the 2002 World Junior champion and record-holder added.

Bolt, who signed a new four-year multimillion-dollar deal with sports wear company Puma in June, clocked 19.91 seconds to capture Jamaica's fifth medal on yesterday's sixth day of competition at the Nagai Stadium here in Japan's Water City.
Mills also coached Kim Collins of St Kitts & Nevis to the 100-metre gold medal at the 2003 World Championships in Paris.

Following an explosive start, the lanky sprinter came into the straight with a slight lead, before 100-metre champion Tyson Gay of the US accelerated to pass him with about 60 metres remaining, to complete the double in a new championship record of 19.76 secs.

It was Bolt's second appearance in the final at this level, after easing up injured to finish eighth in 26.27 seconds, in very cold and rainy conditions two years ago in Helsinki, Finland.
On the matter of finally winning a global medal as a senior, after plenty of successes at the junior level, Bolt said: "I think it's big because every year I came out I've been injured, so it's a good stepping stone for me and next year, hopefully I can step up one more position to be number one," he declared.

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