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Coleman, whose time equaled Richard Thompson of Trinidad and
Tobago's mark, broke the previous collegiate 100m record of 9.89
to advance to Friday's final and is expected to make the U.S.
world championships team.
He also has the year's fastest 200m time of 19.85, posted into a
headwind at a college meet in Lexington, Kentucky late last
month.
Coleman showed great promise at the NCAA Indoor Championships in
March, winning the 200m in 20.11, just outside Wallace
Spearmon's NCAA record of 20.10. He became the first man to
sweep the 60m and 200m at the indoor championships since Justin
Gatlin in 2002.
Jamaican sprint great Bolt is set to retire from athletics after
this years' world championships in London in August, bringing
the curtain down on a career that delivered eight Olympic gold
medals.
Bolt completed a 'treble treble' of 100m, 200m and 4x100m
Olympic titles at the 2016 Rio Games, but had his 2008 relay
gold stripped last month after team mate Nesta Carter's
re-tested sample showed traces of a banned substance.
The Jamaican holds the world 100m record at 9.58 seconds as well
as the 200m at 19.19.
(Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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