Usain Bolt (born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican
sprinter and current world junior and Jamaican
record holder over 200 m.
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"".
He won another gold medal at the World Youth
Championships, running the 200m in 20.40 seconds.
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". He is coached
by Glen Mills and currently attends the University
of Technology, Jamaica.
