So to this point, he has to be considered the greatest,” Michael Johnson once said about Bolt. But none of us has produced, in my opinion, the consistency and longevity that Bolt has. Usain Bolt: Every Olympic final “You think of the great sprinters of the past who have done things that have never been done before like Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis and myself. But these feats are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to illustrating the Jamaican sprinter’s sheer domination at these grand events.Īfter a disappointing outing at the Athens 2004 Olympics, Bolt won gold in the 100m and 200m in three consecutive Olympics - Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016 - a feat no other sprinter in history has ever achieved. Usain Bolt’s record at the Olympics and World Championshipsįor any track and field star, the Olympics and the World Championships are the holy grails and no one in history has even come close to dominating these events as Bolt has.īolt holds the 100m, 200m and 4x100m records in both the Olympics and World Championships. The two are the top two-timings in the history of 4x100m.īarring these, Bolt also holds the fastest time recorded in a 150m straight dash, finishing the race in 14.35 seconds at the 2009 BUPA Great City Games in Manchester, England. They clocked 36.84 seconds at the 2012 Olympics final, beating the 37.04 seconds the same team registered at the 2011 World Championships. Jamaica set new world 4x100m Men's Relay record | London 2012 Replays He beat his own world record at Berlin, but the Olympic record still stands.

The Jamaican, however, did just that, clipping 0.02 seconds off Johnson’s time to win gold and set both the new world and Olympic record in 200m. The Jamaican won gold after clocking 19.19 seconds, bettering his previous record of 19.30 seconds at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Ĭlaiming the record for the first time, however, was quite a toil.Ĭhasing the legendary United States sprinter Michael Johnson’s long-standing record of 19.32 seconds set at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, Bolt needed to better his previous 200m best of 19.67 seconds by quite a margin to stake claim on the record at Beijing. Like in the 100m, Bolt chose the 2009 World Championships in Berlin to set the 200m world record.

Though his achievements in the 100m made Bolt a superstar, the Jamaican’s pet event was the 200m. Though Tyson Gay in 2009 and Yohan Blake in 2012 equalled Bolt’s 9.69 seconds from Beijing, Bolt’s 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Championships and 9.63 seconds at the London 2012 Olympics - still the Olympics 100m record - remain untouched by any runner in any official competition till date. At the 2009 World Championships, Bolt was only putting his own record beyond the competition’s reach.īy the time he retired in 2017, Bolt’s 9.69 seconds at the 2008 Olympics was his third-best time in the 100m. Just months later in August 2008, Bolt ran a 9.69 seconds at the Beijing Olympics to win gold in the 100m and better his own record. In New York, Bolt beat US sprinter Tyson Gay, the then reigning world champion, by over a second to win the gold medal**.**

He clocked 9.72 seconds to beat fellow Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell’s record of 9.74 seconds set at the IAAF Grand Prix in Rieti, Italy, a year earlier. The Jamaican first held the 100m world record in 2008 at the Reebok Grand Prix in the Icahn Stadium in New York. Usain Bolt, however, was already in possession of the title and was only bettering his own times. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is regarded as the fastest man on the planet. Usain Bolt set the current 100m world record at the 2009 IAAF World Championships, clocking an astonishing 9.58 seconds for the feat.Īt the record-winning event, Usain Bolt’s average ground speed was 37.58km/h, whilst reaching a top speed of 44.72km/h in the 60-80m stretch – numbers fitting for the world’s fastest man. Usain Bolt currently holds the world records for men’s 100m, 200m sprints and was part of the 4x100m world record-holding Jamaican quartet that included Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake. Looking back, here’s a compilation of Usain Bolt’s record breaking achievements on the world stage. In the sprinting world, Usain Bolt was the undisputed dominant force in recent times.įlip through any record book, be it for world records or best performances at premier athletics meets like the Olympic Games or the World Championships, and you will find the Jamaican sprinter dominating the sprint section singlehandedly.

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