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An 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). He also won two 4 × 100 relay gold medals. 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.
An 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 is the most successful male athlete of the World Championships. Bolt is the first athlete to win four World Championship titles in the 200 m and is one of the most successful in the 100 m with three titles.
Bolt improved upon his second 100 m world record of 9.69 with 9.58 seconds in 2009 – the biggest improvement since the start of electronic timing. He has twice broken the 200 metres world record, setting 19.30 in 2008 and 19.19 in 2009. He has helped Jamaica to three 4 × 100 metres relay world records, with the current record being 36.84 seconds set in 2012. Bolt's most successful event is the 200 m, with three Olympic and four World titles. The 2008 Olympics was his international debut over 100 m; he had earlier won numerous 200 m medals (including 2007 World Championship silver) and held the world under-20 and world under-18 records for the event until being surpassed by Erriyon Knighton in 2021.
His achievements as a sprinter have earned him the media nickname "Lightning Bolt", and his awards include the IAAF World Athlete of the Year, Track & Field Athlete of the Year, BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year (three times), and Laureus World Sportsman of the Year (four times). Bolt was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2016. Bolt retired after the 2017 World Championships, when he finished third in his last solo 100 m race, opted out of the 200 m, and pulled up injured in the 4×100 m relay final.
Guinness World Records
Bolt claimed 19 Guinness World Records, and, after Michael Phelps, holds the second highest number of accumulative Guinness World Records for total number of accomplishments and victories in sports.[340]
1) Fastest run 150 metres (male).
2)Most medals won at the IAAF Athletics World Championships (male).
3)Most gold medals won at the IAAF Athletics World Championships (male).
4)Most Athletics World Championships Men's 200 m wins.
5)Most consecutive Olympic gold medals won in the 100 metres (male).
6)Most consecutive Olympic gold medals won in the 200 metres (male).
7)Most Olympic men's 200 metres Gold medals.
8)Fastest run 200 metres (male).
9)Most Men's IAAF World Athlete of Year Trophies.
10)First Olympic track sprint triple-double.
11)Highest annual earnings for a track athlete.
12)Most wins of the 100 m sprint at the Olympic Games.
13)First athlete to win the 100 m and 200 m sprints at successive Olympic Games.
14)Fastest run 100 metres (male).
15)First man to win the 200 m sprint at successive Olympic Games.
16)Most Athletics World Championships Men's 100 m wins.
17)Most tickets sold at an IAAF World Championships.
18)Most competitive 100 m sprint races completed in sub 10 seconds.
19)Fastest relay 4×100 metres (male).
