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Usain Bolt Competitor for Jamaica Men’s athletics World Championships Silver 2007 Osaka 200 m Silver 2007 Osaka 4x100 m relay Usain Bolt (born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. He is the current world record holder in the 100 m and the world junior and Jamaican record holder over 200 m.
Contents [hide]1 Early life 2 Athletics career 3 Personal bests 4 Achievements 5 External links 6 References
[edit] Early lifeBolt was born in Trelawny, Jamaica and educated at William Knibb High School. At the age of fifteen he won a gold and two silver medals at the 2002 World Junior Championships in front of a home crowd in Kingston. His name and performance earned him the media nickname "The Lightning Bolt,"[1] and "world's fastest man."[2]
He won another gold medal at the World Youth Championships, running the 200 m in 20.40 seconds.
[edit] Athletics careerIn 2004 Usain ran the 200 m in 19.93 seconds, becoming the first junior to break the 20-second mark and breaking Lorenzo Daniel's world junior record.
At the 2007 Jamaican Championships, Bolt ran 19.75, breaking the 36 year-old national record held by Don Quarrie by 11 hundredths of a second. At the World Championships in Osaka, Bolt won a silver medal in the 200 m behind American Tyson Gay.
On May 3, 2008, Bolt ran 9.76 (+1.8 m/s) in the 100 m at the Jamaica Invitational, then the second fastest legal performance in the history of the event, behind compatriot Asafa Powell.
Later that month, on May 31, 2008, Bolt ran 9.72, establishing a new world record, in the 100 m at the Reebok Classic in New York, breaking the 9.74 seconds record of fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell.[3]. With a tailwind measured at 1.7 m/s, the world record run was established well within the allowable tailwind speed for such runs (for runs to count in the record books, you cannot have a tailwind speed of more than 2.0 m/s).
Bolt is highly rated by the IAAF and has received two IAAF Rising Star awards. The IAAF has described Bolt as "the future of 200 m running".[citation needed] He is coached by Glen Mills and currently attends the University of Technology, Jamaica.
[edit] Personal bestsDate Event Venue Time May 31, 2008 100 m New York, USA 9.72 (World Record) June 24, 2007 200 m Kingston, Jamaica 19.75 May 5, 2007 400 m Kingston, Jamaica 45.28
[edit] AchievementsYear Tournament Venue Result Event Time 2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 1st 200 metres 20.61 2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 2nd 4x100 m relay 39.15 NJR 2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 2nd 4x400 m relay 3:04.06 NJR 2003 World Youth Championships Sherbrooke, Canada 1st 200 metres 20.40 2005 Central American and Carribean Championships Nassau, Bahamas 1st 200 metres 2007 World Championships in Athletics Osaka, Japan 2nd 200 metres 19.91 2008 2008 New York Grand Prix New York, NY 1st 100 metres 9.72 (WR)
[edit] External linksIAAF profile for Usain Bolt IAAF: Focus on Athletes
[edit] References^ Focus on Jamaica - Usain Bolt ^ gmanews.tv, Jamaican sprinter is now the world's fastest man ^ Afp.google.com, Bolt strikes for 100m world record at New York meeting
Persondata NAME Bolt, Usain ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Jamaican athlete DATE OF BIRTH 21 August, 1986 PLACE OF BIRTH Trelawny DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH