'Drunk' Ashley Gill-Webb charged for throwing beer bottle behind Usain Bolt on Olympic track

• Missile hurled on to the track as sprinters took their marks for the race
• Dutch judo competitor Edith Bosch claims on Twitter that 'drunken' spectator was responsible
• Bottle narrowly missed athletes and race started first time
• Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won race in Olympic record time of 9.63secs
• Metropolitan Police: Man arrested in connection with the incident
  

By Richard Hartley-parkinson

PUBLISHED: 17:16 EST, 5 August 2012 | UPDATED: 10:06 EST, 6 August 2012

This is the man who was arrested on suspicion of having thrown a bottle onto the track at the start of the men's 100 metre final at the Olympic stadium last night.

Police today confirmed that they have charged Ashley Gill-Webb, 34, known as Ashley Gill, a father-of-two and vending machine operative.

Gill-Webb was identified by people in his home village of South Milford, near Leeds, as the man being bundled out of the arena by security staff.

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Ms Bosch posted on Twitter in Dutch a message which, when translated into English, reads: 'a drunk guy threw a bottle on the track in front of me – I hit him.... Unbelievable! # angry # disrespectful'.

She later added that, despite being in a good position to see the race, she missed the 100m race.

The Metropolitan Police last night confirmed that a man had been arrested in connection with the incident.

A police spokesman said a man had been heard shouting abuse and was then seen throwing a bottle immediately before the race.

Pictures show the missile coming on to the track as the sprinters took their marks for the most eagerly awaited athletics race of London 2012.

None of the sprinters were injured, and the race started first time. Bolt won the race in an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds.

His Jamaican compatriot Yohan Blake took silver in a time of 9.75 seconds and American Justin Gatlin took bronze in 9.79.

Speaking after the race, Gatlin said: 'It was a little distraction and I didn't know what it was.

'But when you're in those blocks and the whole stadium's quiet you can hear a pin drop.'

The suspect was being held in police custody at an east London police station.

Gatlin said the incident had not affected the race.

'You just have to block it out and go out there and do what you got to do,' he said. 'You can't complain about that, the race went on and it was a great race.'

Bolt said he had been unaware of the incident.

Asked whether he knew anything about it, he said: 'No, I keep hearing that. I don't know who would have done that.'

Blake said: 'I was so focused I didn't see anything. I was so focused on just running to the line.'

Bosch, 32, won a bronze medal in the judo at London 2012. Her Olympic debut was at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where she finished seventh.

She won a silver medal in Athens in 2004 and a bronze in Beijing in 2008.

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