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Athens 2004 gold medallist to race in Guernsey

OLYMPIC gold-medallist Mark Lewis-Francis will go head-to-head with Guernsey's top 100m sprinter Josh Allaway in Saturday's Intertrust 10th Anniversary Games at Footes Lane.

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Lewis-Francis took silver medals in the European Championships and Commonwealth Games in 2010, but is most well known for his anchor leg in the Athens 2004 Olympic 4x100m relay final. Matched up against the USA's Olympic champion and world record holder Maurice Greene, Lewis-Francis held off the 9.79-man to secure Britain a famous gold medal.

Lewis-Francis' official PB stands at 10.04sec., but he was a faulty wind gauge away from joining the sub-10sec. club when he posted 9.97sec. in 2001.

Saturday's 100m section begins at 3.45pm and is part of a full afternoon of athletics action starting at 1pm.

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