He is the most successful male athlete of the World Championships. He gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first person to hold both records since fully automatic time became mandatory.Īn eleven-time World Champion, he won consecutive World Championship 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay gold medals from 2009 to 2015, with the exception of a 100 m false start in 2011. He also won two 4 × 100 relay gold medals. He is the world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay.Īn eight-time Olympic gold medallist, Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m titles at three consecutive Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2016). Leo Bolt OJ CD OLY ( / ˈ juː s eɪ n/ born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican retired sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. Christian Coleman, Nesta Carter and Steve Mullings are also part of the elite club.Usain St. The United States international clocked 9.95 seconds to clinch a gold medal during the 1968 Olympic Games held in Mexico.Īs of July 2022, fewer than 200 athletes had managed to run the 100m race in less than 10 seconds including Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, Tyson Gay, Yohan Blake and Justin Gatlin. Jim Hines was the first person to register a sub 10 seconds time in the history of athletics. “It’s safe to say that someone will break the nine-second barrier – not necessarily in our lifetime, but it will happen one day,” read the findings of the study.īefore Bolt set the 100m record, very few athletes had managed to run under 10.00 seconds. “A muscle with a high proportion of large, fast twitch muscle fibers will be able to generate larger amounts of force more quickly than a muscle with a lower proportion.Īlso Read: Scottish Athlete Denies Kenya Gold in 10,000m, 36 Yrs After Her Mum Won Same Race “A combination of genetics and training would need to produce bum, thigh and calf muscles which are a little bit stronger and faster than the current best sprinters. "However obviously anything could and likely will happen in the fullness of time, there is no accounting for currently unknown factors completely shifting the goalposts." he opinedĪlso Read: Amina Mohamed Awarded by the Commonwealth OrganisationĪccording to a study done by Aki Salo and Polly McGuigan of the University of Bath, the genetic factors that allowed the Jamaican athlete to achieve the fete are extremely rare. "Based on the current rates of progression I would say no. In a phone interview with MailOnline, Sam Allen, a lecture at Loughborough University stated that the current record will not be broken anytime soon. The Jamaican legend broke into the limelight in 2008 during the Reebok Grand Prix held in the United States when he clocked 9.72 seconds to break compatriot Asafa Powell’s 100m world record.Ī few months later, he lowered the record from 9.72 to 9.69 seconds at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.īolt did not stop there, he went on to run the greatest 100m race in history at the 2009 World Championships in Germany when he clocked 9.58 to shutter his own world record by an impressive nine seconds. Scientists based at the University of Bath have explained why it is highly unlikely that an athlete will ever break Usain Bolt’s 100m record of 9.58 set at the 2009 IAAF championships staged in Berlin, Germany.
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