What are Usain Bolt’s records on the Olympic track? 100m, 200m…

As we edge nearer to the boys’s 100m and 200m dash competitors within the 2020 Tokyo Games, we already know that may see a brand new gold medallist topped in each races. The person who has dominated these occasions during the last 15 years or so, Usain Bolt, shouldn’t be among the many rivals in an Olympic subject for the primary time since Beijing in 2008.

Lightning Bolt: a dominant pressure

The Jamaican nice, unarguably the best sprinter of all time, gained gold in each occasions in China, London and Rio to grow to be the solely athlete in historical past to finish the dash double at three consecutive Video games.

Whereas Bolt’s Olympic crown will probably be handed to a brand new holder when the sprint finals take place on Sunday 1 August, his world and Olympic data are more likely to stay intact for a while.

The quickest man in historical past exploded into the general public consciousness on the observe on the Hen’s Nest stadium in Beijing, setting world and Olympic data within the 100m and 200m at 9.69 and 19.30 respectively, with neither run wind-assisted. As such, he took Michael Johnson’s world document of 19.32 set on the 1996 Olympics and no one, together with Bolt, has ever bettered that point.

Mr Lightning would go on to smash his personal 100m world document a yr later on the 2009 Berlin World Championships, setting a brand new mark of 9.58. The Olympic document, additionally belonging to Bolt, stands at 9.63 and was set on the 2012 London Olympics.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: 100m and 200m dash contenders

It’ll require the run of a lifetime for anybody to beat Bolt’s instances on the Tokyo Video games. Solely two athletes among the many high 10 quickest instances recorded over 100m in historical past will line up in Tokyo. 4-time Olympic medallist Yohan Blake holds the joint second-fastest 100m of all time of 9.69, alongside Tyson Homosexual, however Bolt’s former relay teammate, now 31 and competing at his closing Video games, set that mark again in 2012 at a meet in Lausanne. Among the many favourites for the title is US sprinter Trayvon Bromell, who ran a time of 9.77 in Florida final month, the quickest of the yr heading into the Video games. Christian Coleman, the reigning 100m world champion whose private finest stands at 9.76, is serving a ban for missed medicine exams.

Rio 2016 silver medallist Andre de Grasse (PB 9.9), France’s Jimmy Vicault, the quickest European-born sprinter of all time (PB 9.86), and South African continental record-holder Akani Simbine (PB 9.84) will all be anticipated to be on the beginning line for the 100m closing.

Within the 200m all eyes will probably be on Noah Lyles, who did not qualify for the 100m and can purpose to make up for that disappointment with victory within the longer format, through which he holds the world-leading time of 19.74.

Usain Bolt’s Olympic and world 100m and 200m data

100m world: 9.58 seconds

100m Olympic: 9.63 seconds

200m world and Olympic: 19.30 seconds