Then, of course, he went on to sweep the and in three consecutive Olympics, and become arguably the most dominant sprinter of all time. Bolt has since retired, and the Tokyo Olympics will be the first in more than two decades without him.
Here's what the year-old has been up to since retiring, and his thoughts on the upcoming Games. Bolt's last Olympic appearance came at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he won three gold medals. He then returned to the track in , in what would be the final year of his career.
Bolt finished third in the meter dash at the world championships and was the anchor leg on Jamaica's 4x relay team a few days later. He received the baton, took a few steps and winced in pain — stricken by another one of the hamstring injuries that plagued him throughout his career. Bolt announced his retirement thereafter. Bolt won a total of eight Olympic medals in , and He swept the and meters at all three Games, and helped Jamaica win the 4x relay in two of them.
Jamaica's relay team also won in but was later disqualified after one of Bolt's teammates, Nesta Carter, was sanctioned for doping. The eight-time Olympic gold medalist says that after his first Olympic debut in , when he was just 18, he got into "spending" because that's when he started making money.
Bolt still holds the official world record for both the men's meter and meter sprints, which he achieved at the World Championships in Berlin. He ran the meter in 9.
And he was part of the 4xmeter world-record-holding relay team at the London summer Olympics. Usain BOLT. Olympic Medals. Latest news. Olympic Results More results.
Featured athletes. Rio G metres. Bolt returned to Olympic glory at the Summer Olympic Games when he won gold in the meter race, making him the the first athlete to win three successive titles in the event. He finished the race in 9. He continued his Olympic winning streak, taking gold in the meters in I have made the sport exciting, I have made people want to see the sport.
I have put the sport on a different level. The "fastest man alive" remained undefeated in what he said would be the last race of his Olympic career, the 4xmeter relay, which he ran with teammates Blake, Asafa Powell and Nickel Ashmeade. Anchoring the race, Bolt led the Jamaican team to gold, crossing the finish line in It was the third consecutive gold medal win for Bolt in Rio. I'm now a legend. I'm also the greatest athlete to live. I've got nothing left to prove.
Bolt is an time world champion. He holds the world records in races for meters, at 9. Participating in the , and summer Olympic Games, Bolt completed a "triple-triple," with a total of nine gold medals earned in the meter, meter and 4xmeter relay races. In doing so, Bolt joined just two other triple-triple runners: Paavo Nurmi of Finland in , and and Carl Lewis of the United States in , , and However in January , the International Olympic Committee stripped Bolt of one of these medals, for the 4xmeter relay, because his teammate Nesta Carter was found guilty of a doping violation.
Bolt took back the meter world title on August 11, , after having lost the title in Although Bolt didn't strike his signature "lightning bolt" pose after the race, his winning image still caused a stir, with lightning striking just as he crossed the finish line. Trouble with his pelvic muscles forced him to withdraw from two races, though Bolt made a comeback that July with a meter win at London's Anniversary Games.
In , Bolt faced challenges on the track at the World Athletics Championships.
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