Usain bolt bags gold medal in the 200m race

Usain Bolt won the men's 200m to claim his second Rio 2016 gold, his eighth at an Olympics, and keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented 'treble treble', BBC reports. 

The Jamaican ran 19.78 seconds to come home ahead of Canada'sAndre de Grasse andFrance's Christophe Lemaitre. Britain'sAdam Gemili clocked the same time as Lemaitre, but was denied his first Olympic medal in a photo finish.

Bolt, 29, has already won the 100m in Rio and will run in the 4x100m relay final on Friday (02:35 BST, Saturday). Bolt is aiming to match his achievement of claiming gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at both Beijing 2008 and London 2012.