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Result: Usain Bolt wins third 200m gold at Olympic Games

Jamaica's Usain Bolt runs 19.78s to win gold in the men's 200m final at the Olympic Games.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt has powered to his third 200m gold medal at the Olympic Games in a time of 19.78s.

Days after winning the 100m, Bolt was expected to decimate his rivals in the showcase event on Thursday evening and he did not disappoint as he led from start to finish.

The wet conditions put paid to any attempt to break his own world record but he finished well clear of Canada's Andre de Grasse, who claimed silver in 20.02s.

However, there was heartbreak for Great Britain's Adam Gemili who missed out on bronze by three thousandths of a second to France's Christophe Lemaitre.

Both athletes clocked 20.12s but Lemaitre was given the nod to edge out the 22-year-old by the narrowest of margins.

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'Big' Usain Bolt celebrates on his knees after winning gold in the men's 200m at the World Championships on August 27, 2015
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Saturday's key events


TRIATHLON
· After silvers in both the men's and women's events, Team GB will be fancied to get on the podium again in the mixed relay (11.30pm-1am)

SWIMMING
· Touted as Michael Phelps's successor, Caeleb Dressel already has two gold medals from these Games and he will be going for a third in the men's 50m butterfly final (2.30am)
· It is Katie Ledecky vs. Ariarne Titmus III in the women's 800m freestyle final, with Ledecky entering as firm favourite (2.46am)
· Great Britain will be heavily fancied to add another gold medal to their swimming haul, having produced by far the fastest qualifying time for the mixed 4x100m medley relay final (3.43am)

ATHLETICS
· Dina Asher-Smith is one of three British women in the 100m semi-finals (3.01am-3.20am), and will hope to challenge for a medal in what is likely to be a star-studded final (1.50pm)
· The inaugural Olympic 4x400m mixed relay event concludes with Great Britain one of the eight finalists going for gold (1.35pm)

RUGBY SEVENS
· Team GB's dreams of an unlikely gold are still alive in the women's event as they face France in their semi-final (3.30am). The winners will face either New Zealand or Fiji in the gold medal match later in the day (10am)

SAILING
· Gold medals are up for grabs in the windsurfer - RS:X finals. Emma Wilson participates for Team GB in the women's final (6.33am), while Tom Squires is in action in the men's (7.33am)

TENNIS
· Following his shock semi-final defeat, ending his hopes of a Golden Slam in 2021, Novak Djokovic battles for bronze against Pablo Carreno Busta (7am)
· The women's singles event reaches its conclusion with the gold medal match between Belinda Bencic and Marketa Vondrousova

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