DES MOINES, Iowa — Tyson Gay flew to the year's fastest 200m of 19.74 seconds at the US Athletics Championships Sunday to set himself up for a World Championship sprint double challenge. Gay, who notched the season's fastest 100m Friday with a victory in 9.75, again demonstrated he is fit and ready to take on six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt and his fellow Jamaican sprinters at the World Championships in Moscow on August 10-18. Gay's 200m time eclipsed the 19.79 clocked by Bolt in Oslo on June 13 as the fastest in the world this year. Gay powered through the curve and held on for the victory at Drake Stadium, with Isiah Young second in 19.86 and Curtis Mitchell third in 19.99. In the women's 200m, US collegiate champion Kimberlyn Duncan pulled off an upset, running down 2012 Olympic champion Allyson Felix to win in a wind-aided 21.80sec. Felix seemed somewhat surprised to find herself second in 21.85 with Jeneba Tarmoh third in 22.15. Ryan Wilson was the upset winner of the 110m hurdles but world record-holder Aries Merritt did enough with his third-place finish to have a chance to add the world title to the Olympic gold he claimed last year. Wilson won in 13.08 while David Oliver, the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist who dominated the event in 2010 before he was hit by injury in 2011, was second in 13.11. Merritt clocked 13.23 and Jason Richardson, who has a bye into Moscow as the reigning world champion, was fourth in 13.24. Weir runs 19.79 to win 200m at Jamaican trials Olympic bronze medalist Warren Weir ran a scorching 19.79 seconds to win the 200m on the final day of the Jamaican trials in the joint 14th fastest time ever Sunday. On a day that Tyson Gay clocked 19.74 to win the American title, Weir covered the entire field by 90m and powered away before shutting down in the last 10m and slapping his chest in an echo of Usain Bolt at the Beijing Olympics. Double Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce secured her second straight national title in the half-lap sprint in a season's best 22.13. — Agencies
