Manchester: Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt ran the fastest ever 150m in a street race held in a chilly and windy Manchester city centre on Sunday. Bolt came home in 14.35sec, beating the previous best recorded by Italian Pietro Mennea of 14.8 in 1983. Britain’s Marlon Devonish was second in 15.07sec. In the women’s event, American Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie clocked 16.54sec to beat Britain’s Olympic 400m gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu(17.10sec). Jamaican Bolt, 22, had earlier predicted he would smash his own world 100m record this year and on Sunday showed no signs of ill-effects from a high-speed car crash in which he was recently involved. He said bettering his world record of 9.69sec that he set in Beijing last August “shouldn’t be a problem” this year. “My coach expressed his views in Beijing, saying I could run 9.54, and I can definitely do that,” he said. “I still feel goose bumps when I hear or watch the Beijing 100m, it feels good to know I’ve done such a wonderful thing. But the 100m final was just another day for me. I knew I was going to win — I was feeling good, my starts were better and that was my main concern, so I wasn’t really worried. I don’t really think about (breaking the record again) but I think it’s possible if everything goes well in training.” Asked how long he hoped to remain a force in world athletics, Bolt forecast he would be a threat until at least 2015. “I can be at the top for six years if I want,” he said. “That’s the aim for me. My main goal is to make myself a legend and I’m going to work really hard to do that.” World record holder Bolt added that he still had room for improvement as he builds up to the world championships later this year in Berlin, and was also thinking about an attempt, at some stage, on the 400m world record of 43.18sec. That was set by America’s Michael Johnson 10 years ago.