Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran the fastest ever 150m on Sunday in a street race held in a chilly and windy Manchester city center. Bolt came home in 14.35sec, beating the previous best recorded by Italian Pietro Mennea of 14.8 in 1983. Britain's Marlon Devonish was second in 15.07sec, but 70cm behind in an event rarely raced. In the women's event, American Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie clocked 16.54sec to beat Britain's Olympic 400m gold medalist Christine Ohuruogu, who ran 17.10sec. Jamaican Bolt, 22, had earlier forecast he would smash his own world 100m record this year and on Sunday showed no signs of ill-effects from a high-speed car crash in which he was recently involved. He said bettering his world record of 9.69sec that he set in Beijing last August “shouldn't be a problem” this year. Asked how long he hoped to remain a force in world athletics, Bolt forecast he would be a threat until at least 2015. World record holder Bolt added that he still had room for improvement as he builds up to the world championships later this year in Berlin, and was also thinking about an attempt, at some stage, on the 400m world record of 43.18sec. That was set by America's Michael Johnson 10 years ago. Haile Gebrselassie comfortably won the Great Manchester Run by 34 seconds with Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot's winning the women's race. However, Gebrselassie failed in his bid to reclaim his world 10km record as gusting winds made his task impossible. The 36-year-old - holder of 26 world records during his career - eased to victory but found a strong headwind in the final five kilometers impossible to overcome as he failed to better the world best mark of 27 minutes one second run by Kenya's Micah Kogo at the end of March. Gebrselassie timed 27 minutes 39 seconds ahead of Ali Zaied of Libya (28:13) and Ukrainian veteran Sergiy Lebid (28:36). The two-time Olympic 10,000m champion said he had felt confident in the first-half of the race but realized as the contest entered the final 5km that he would not succeed.
