Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt (born 21 August1986) is a Jamaican sprinter and current world junior and Jamaican record holder over 200 m.
[edit] Early life
Bolt was born in Trelawny, Jamaica and educated at William Knibb High School. At the age of fifteen he won one gold and two silver medals at the 2002 World Junior Championships in front of a home crowd in Kingston. His performance earned him the media nickname "The Lightning Bolt""[citation needed].
He won another gold medal at the World Youth Championships, running the 200m in 20.40 seconds.
[edit] Athletics Career
In 2004 Usain broke Lorenzo Daniel's world junior 200m record to become the first junior to break the 20-second barrier ,running 19.93 seconds.
At the 2007 Jamaican Championships, Bolt where he 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 100m at the Jamaica Invitational, the second fastest legal performance in the history of the event, behind compatriot Asafa Powell.
Bolt is highly rated by the IAAF and has received two IAAF Rising Star awards. The IAAF has described Bolt as "the future of 200m running".[citation needed] He is coached by Glen Mills and currently attends the University of Technology, Jamaica.
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| Bolt, Usain
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| Jamaican athlete
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| DATE OF BIRTH
| 21 August, 1986
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| PLACE OF BIRTH
| Trelawny
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