ATHLETE PROFILE USAIN BOLT

PERSONAL BEST - OUTDOOR
	PERFORMANCE	WIND	PLACE	DATE
100 Metres	9.58	+0.9	Berlin (Olympiastadion)	16 AUG 2009
200 Metres	19.19	-0.3	Berlin (Olympiastadion)	20 AUG 2009
300 Metres	30.97		Ostrava	27 MAY 2010
400 Metres	45.28		Kingston (NS), JAM	05 MAY 2007

PROGRESSION - OUTDOORSHOWSHOW
100 METRESSHOW
	PERFORMANCE	WIND	PLACE	DATE
2014	9.98	-0.6	Warszawa (Stadion Narodowy)	23 AUG
2013	9.77	-0.3	Moskva (Luzhniki)	11 AUG
2012	9.63	+1.5	London (OP)	05 AUG
2011	9.76	+1.3	Bruxelles	16 SEP
2010	9.82	+0.5	Lausanne	08 JUL
2009	9.58	+0.9	Berlin (Olympiastadion)	16 AUG
2008	9.69	0.0	Beijing (National Stadium)	16 AUG
2007	10.03	+0.7	Réthimno	18 JUL
200 METRESSHOW
	PERFORMANCE	WIND	PLACE	DATE
2013	19.66	0.0	Moskva (Luzhniki)	17 AUG
2012	19.32	+0.4	London (OP)	09 AUG
2011	19.40	+0.8	Daegu	03 SEP
2010	19.56	-0.8	Kingston (NS), JAM	01 MAY
2009	19.19	-0.3	Berlin (Olympiastadion)	20 AUG
2008	19.30	-0.9	Beijing (National Stadium)	20 AUG
2007	19.75	+0.2	Kingston (NS), JAM	24 JUN
2006	19.88	+0.4	Lausanne	11 JUL
2005	19.99	+1.8	London (CP)	22 JUL
2004	19.93	+1.4	Devonshire	11 APR
2003	20.13	0.0	Bridgetown, BAR	20 JUL
2002	20.58	+1.4	Kingston, JAM	18 JUL
2001	21.73	+0.6	Debrecen	14 JUL
300 METRESSHOW
	PERFORMANCE	PLACE	DATE
2010	30.97	Ostrava	27 MAY
400 METRESSHOW
	PERFORMANCE	PLACE	DATE
2013	46.44	Kingston (Mona), JAM	23 MAR
2010	45.87	Kingston (NS), JAM	13 FEB
2009	45.54	Kingston (NS), JAM	21 FEB
2008	46.94		01 JAN
2007	45.28	Kingston (NS), JAM	05 MAY
2006	47.58	Kingston (SEF), JAM	29 JAN
2004	47.58		01 JAN
2003	45.35	Kingston, JAM	05 APR
2002	47.12		01 JAN
2001	48.28		01 JAN

100 METRES
	RANK	MARK	WIND	PLACE	DATE
14th IAAF World Championships	1	9.77	-0.3	Moskva (Luzhniki)	11 AUG 2013
The XXX Olympic Games	1	9.63	+1.5	London (OP)	05 AUG 2012
13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics	f	DQ	-1.4	Daegu	28 AUG 2011
12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics	1	9.58	+0.9	Berlin (Olympiastadion)	16 AUG 2009
The XXIX Olympic Games	1	9.69	0.0	Beijing (National Stadium)	16 AUG 2008
200 METRES
	RANK	MARK	WIND	PLACE	DATE
14th IAAF World Championships	1	19.66	0.0	Moskva (Luzhniki)	17 AUG 2013
The XXX Olympic Games	1	19.32	+0.4	London (OP)	09 AUG 2012
13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics	1	19.40	+0.8	Daegu	03 SEP 2011
IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final	1	19.68	-0.3	Thessaloníki	13 SEP 2009
12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics	1	19.19	-0.3	Berlin (Olympiastadion)	20 AUG 2009
The XXIX Olympic Games	1	19.30	-0.9	Beijing (National Stadium)	20 AUG 2008
11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics	2	19.91	-0.8	Osaka (Nagai Stadium)	30 AUG 2007
10th IAAF World Cup	2	19.96	+0.1	Athína (Olympic Stadium)	17 SEP 2006
4th IAAF World Athletics Final	3	20.10	-0.1	Stuttgart	10 SEP 2006
10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics	8	26.27	-0.5	Helsinki	11 AUG 2005
28th Olympic Games	5h4	21.05	0.0	Athína (Olympic Stadium)	24 AUG 2004
3rd IAAF World Youth Championships	1	20.40	-1.1	Sherbrooke	13 JUL 2003
IAAF/Coca Cola World Junior Championships	1	20.61	+0.9	Kingston, JAM	19 JUL 2002
2nd IAAF/Westel World Youth Championships	5sf2	21.73	+0.6	Debrecen	14 JUL 2001
400 METRES
	RANK	MARK	WIND	PLACE	DATE
3rd IAAF World Youth Championships	sf1	DNS		Sherbrooke	11 JUL 2003

Focus on Athletes biography

Updated 20 August 2007

Usain BOLT, Jamaica, (200m & 400m)

Born 21 August 1986, Trelawny, Jamaica; 1.96m; 86kg 

Coaches: Dwayne Barrett, Pablo McNeil, Fitz Coleman, Glen Mills

Nicknamed “lightning Bolt”, Usain Bolt is the only junior to have run the 200m under 20 seconds. Holder of the world junior and Jamaican national records, Bolt started running while in primary school, although his first love was cricket. He still enjoys the game but prefers basketball more now.

After competing for his parish of Trelawny at the annual national primary schools meeting, his coach convinced him to pursue track and field and that year he entered William Knibb High School.

It was not until his third year at high school, in 2001, that Bolt won his first medal at the annual high school championships, finishing second in 22.04. Fans in Barbados, host country of the Carifta Games - the Caribbean regional junior Championships - bore witness to his exciting potential as he took silver in a PB 48.28 for 400m and placed second in the 200 (21.81). Later that year he contested the 200m at the IAAF World Youth Championships. in Debrecen, Hungary, lowering his PB to 21.73, although he was eliminated in the semi-finals.

This Falmouth native blossomed in 2002. At 15, he took the 200/400 double at the High School Championships, Carifta and the CAC Junior Championships, laying the foundation for a big run at the World Junior Championships in his home country, in Kingston. Along the way, the 6 foot-5 inch Bolt, towered over the competitors lowering his 200m personal best to 20.61. In the relays, he ran solid legs as a member of national record setting teams in the 4x100 and 4x400.

Bolt maintained his superb form in 2003, winning gold in the 200m at the IAAF World Youth Championships and Pan-Am Junior Championships (equalling the world junior record of 20.13). He was the star of the Jamaican High School Championships, rewriting the record books in the under-19 age group, with an easy 45.3 in the 400m, an 0.87 improvement on the previous record and 20.25 in the curved sprint, to lower the old mark by 0.57.

Bolt, the World Youth and World Junior 200m champion, then stood on the threshold of holding an unprecedented three IAAF world 200m titles simultaneously as he prepared for the World Championships in Paris. But conjunctivitis cut short his training 6 weeks beforehand and led to him being withdrawn.

The Bolt record rampage continued in 2004. Now a professional, he lowered the world junior 200m record of 20.13 seconds he shared with American Roy Martin, as he became the first junior athlete to break 20 seconds, with his Carifta Games winning time of 19.93 in Bermuda.

Leg ailments destroyed the Olympic medal winning promise offered by the record run and Bolt was eliminated in the first round of the 200m at the Olympic Games in Athens.

Bolt has since broken 20 seconds on five other occasions. That includes his national senior record of 19.75 at the 2007 Jamaican National Championships, breaking the 36-year-old record of his hero, Don Quarrie, by 0.11. In 2005, a season in which he ran 19.99, he won the CAC title and became the youngest Jamaican male (10 days before his 19th birthday) to reach an IAAF World Championships sprint final. But injury slowed him in the Helsinki final and he finished eighth. 

Now one of the world’s finest 200m sprinters, and ranked in the world top 5 in 2005 and 2006, Bolt has not confined himself to the 200m in 2007. In the 400m, he has lowered his PB to 45.28 and he recently unleashed his speed over 100m and stunned everyone with a time of 10.03. That time places him fifth on the Jamaican all-time list behind Asafa Powell, Ray Stewart, Percival Spencer and Michael Green. His 200m national record of 19.7 places him 9th on the world all-time list, equal with Olympic champions Carl Lewis and Joe DeLoach.

Bolt is currently coached by sprint guru Glen Mills, who guided Kim Collins to gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2003 World Championships. Previously, he received instructions from 1964 Olympian Pablo McNeil and Dwayne Barrett at William Knibb high school and from experienced Fitz Coleman during 2004, when the world junior record was set.

Bolt says he likes watching tennis when Serena Williams plays.

Yearly Progression
200/400: 2001 – 21.81, 48.28; 2002 – 20.58, 47.12; 2003 – 20.13, 45.35; 2004 – 19.93; 2005 – 19.99; 2006 – 19.98; 2007 – 19.75 (NR), 45.28.

Personal bests
100: 10.03 (2007)
200: 19.75, NR (2007)
400:  45.28 (2007)

Career Highlights
2001: 2nd, Under 17 Carifta 200/400
2002: 1st. World Junior Championships 200;
2002: 1st, Under 17 Carifta and CAC Juniors, 200/400
2003: 1st, World Youth Championships 200
2003: 1st Pan-Am Junior 200
2003: 1st Carifta, 200/400
2004: 1st Carifta 200 (WJR19.93)
2005: 1st CAC senior, 200