A groin cramp hinders Ato to a 5th place finish in the 100m dash final at the World Championships, but Ato returns 4 days later to win his first World Title in the 200 meter dash.

It's his country's first track gold medal in 21 years.  Needless to say Trinidad and Tobago parties like it's 1999 (two years early).

Ato continues to improve, and by season's end his personal-best times are 9.87 and 19.77.  He's now become history's best one-day sprint doubler (100/200m) ever.

In other words, only one other person has run sub-10 for 100m and sub-20 for 200m in the same day - Calvin Smith. He did it once in his career. Ato's done it three times already.

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