Who will win 100m and 200m Men’s events – Betting Preview & Winner Odds

No stopping the Lightning Bolt in Rio

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Arguably the biggest event in the Olympics is the Men’s 100m. The event has long held prestige as the ultimate Olympic event, a straight, quick ten seconds to settle the argument of who is the quickest man in the world. This is the place where the sprinting elite gather and no-man epitomises the sport more than Usain Bolt. Four years ago he landed the Double Triple at London 2012 with a successful title defence in both the 100m and 200m events and then rounded off with a gold in the 4x100m with Jamaica.

So that is a three gold medal haul at the last two Olympics now and so Bolt will be gunning for the Triple Triple at Rio 2016. Bolt, without question one of the greatest athletes of all time can’t be written off of course. He went into the 2012 Olympics as just the second fastest in the 100m and 200m Jamaican trials, but turned it on when it mattered the most. He’s not done yet and last year he went out and won the 100m final at the 2015 Beijing World Championships.

Bolt holds the 100m Olympic Record with 9.63, set at London 2012 and once again, his main challenger in the 100m event will be Justin Gatlin who would probably have a big gold medal haul himself were he not in the time of Bolt. The American was second to Bolt at the 2015 Beijing World Championships, being beaten out by just 0.01 seconds. Then he went and came home second again to Bolt in the 200m as well.

Gatlin won the 2016 US Olympic Trials and now at 34 became the oldest sprinter to have made the American Olympic Team. He hasn’t managed to get the better of Bolt as of yet and while this will be his last chance to do son on the biggest stage of all, it’s unlikely that he is going to pull it out of the bag. But you are looking at big odds on anyone else in the mix coming through to take gold. You have Trayvon Bromell and Yohan Blake at 14/1 for gold and that’s about it. It should be a blitz for the Lightning Bolt.

You can take a price of 9/1 on a new world record being set in the 100m at the 2016 Olympics.

Pretty much the same faces are in the mix for the 200m gold medal as well. Again you have Usain Bolt as the clear outright favourite to take the title and he is followed by Justin Gatlin. While Yohan Blake is there at 16/1 the only other one who is likely to make a shot at this is going to be LaShawn Merritt. He has come down from the 400m to have a shot at the 200m this time around, and he hold a decent personal best of 19.74 set this year in the discipline. That though, is a long way short of Bolt’s personal best of 19.19 and his Olympic record of 19.30 in the 200m.

The Final of the 100m is on August 14th and the Final of the 200m is on August 18th.

Men’s 100m Outright Winner Odds

Usain Bolt 1/2, Justin Gatlin 15/8, Trayvon Bromell 14/1, Yohan Blanke 14/1, Andre de Grasse 20/1, 33/1 bar

Men’s 200m Outright Winner Odds

Usain Bolt 4/11, Justin Gatlin 7/2, LaShawn Merritt, Yohan Blake, Andre De Grasse 20/1, 33/1 bar

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