Usain Bolt 200m World Record
Berlin 2009 19:19 sec'
Usain St. Leo Bolt, C.D.
(pronounced
/juːˈseɪn/;[4] born
21 August 1986), is a Jamaican
sprinter. Bolt holds the world
record for the 100 metres at
9.58 seconds,[5][6] the 200
metres at 19.19 seconds and,
along with his teammates, the
4x100 metres relay at 37.10more

Usain Bolt 200m World Record
Berlin 2009 19:19 sec'
Usain St. Leo Bolt, C.D.
(pronounced
/juːˈseɪn/;[4] born
21 August 1986), is a Jamaican
sprinter. Bolt holds the world
record for the 100 metres at
9.58 seconds,[5][6] the 200
metres at 19.19 seconds and,
along with his teammates, the
4x100 metres relay at 37.10
seconds. Bolt also holds the
Olympic record in the 100
metres at 9.69 seconds and the
200 metres at 19.30 seconds.
Bolt became the first man to
win all three events at a
single Olympics since Carl
Lewis in 1984, and the first
man in history to set world
records in all three at a
single Olympics. His name and
achievements in sprinting have
earned him the media nickname
''Lightning Bolt'.[3]

Bolt distinguished himself
with a 200 m gold medal at the
2002 World Junior
Championships, making him the
competition's youngest-ever
gold medalist. In 2004, at the
CARIFTA Games, Bolt became the
first junior sprinter to run
the 200 m in under 20 seconds
with a time of 19.93 s,
breaking Roy Martin's world
junior record by two-tenths of
a second. Bolt also set
competition records at a
number of other junior
events.

Bolt turned professional in
2004 but missed most of his
first two seasons due to
injuries; he was eliminated in
the first round of the 200 m
heats at the 2004 Summer
Olympics. In 2007, Bolt beat
Don Quarrie's 200 m Jamaican
national record with a run of
19.75 s. In May 2008, Bolt set
his first 100 m world record
with a time of 9.72 s,
improving upon his previous
personal best of 9.76 s which
was made earlier in the
month.

As a result of Bolt's
successes in athletics, he was
named the Laureus World
Sportsman of the Year for
2009.[7] In August 2009 in
Berlin, Bolt improved the 100
m world record to 9.58 seconds
to win his first World
Championship gold medal in
what was the largest ever
margin of improvement in the
100 m world record since the
beginning of electronic
timing.

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