Who Is Usain Bolt?

The 6’5, 209 pound Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt is the fastest man on Earth. How did he get this title? Continue to read to find out.

>Childhood Usain St. Leo Bolt was born in Sherwood Content, Trelawny, Sherwood on August 21, 1986. Bolt played Cricket in high school when his coach suggested that Usain should take up track and field. Being the fastest runner at William Knibb Memorial High School (running a 200 meter race in 22.04 seconds) it didn’t take long for Bolt to become his school's track star. One of his coaches was an Olympic sprinter, Pablo McNeil, who had worked with Usain until moving to Kingston at sixteen because former Jamaican prime minister P.J. Patterson, had Bolt move to Kingston to train with the Jamaican Ameteur Athletics Assocation (JAAA). Usain didn’t take his career very seriously in high school, McNeil had to keep him on track by bringing him back to train when he would run off with his friends but, Bolt still performed well. It was Pablo who first called him “Bolt of Lighting” a nickname that would later be changed by the media to “Lightning Bolt”.

>Starting Career Usain Bolt competed at the Caribbean Free trade Association (CARIFTA) Games winning silver medals in the 200 meter and 400 meter races in April 2001. Then in July 2001, he competed at the International Association of
He broke the world junior record in the 200 meter with a time of 19.93 seconds at the CARIFTA Games, which was his first event as a professional. Bolt became the first junior sprinter to break the 20 second barrier. Unfortunately, he suffered from an hamstring injury later in the year that kept Usain from competing in the World Junior Championship. Bolt was still chosen for the Jamaican team in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, even with an injury. The injury was obviously still affecting Usain, he was eliminated in the first round of the 200 meter race during the 2004