Usain Bolt the Jamaican sprinter and a three-time World and Olympic gold medallist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and (along with his team-mates) the 4 x 100 metres relay. He is the reigning World and Olympic champion in these three events.

Bolt distinguished himself with a 200m gold medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, making him the competition's youngest-ever gold medallist. In 2004, at the CARIFTA Games, he became the first junior sprinter to run the 200m in under 20 seconds with a time of 19.93s, breaking the previous world junior record held by Roy Martin by two-tenths of a second. He turned professional in 2004, and although he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he missed most of the next two seasons due to injuries. In 2007, he surpassed Don Quarrie's 200m Jamaican record with a run of 19.75s.

His 2008 season began with his first world record performance a 100m world record of 9.72s and culminated in world and Olympic records in both the 100m and 200m events at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. He ran 9.69s for the 100m and 19.30s in the 200m, and also set a 4×100m relay record of 37.10s with the Jamaican team. This made him the first man to win three sprinting events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man to set world records in all three at a single Olympics.

The following year he further lowered his own 100m and 200m world records to 9.58s and 19.19s respectively at the 2009 World Championships. This made him the first man to hold both the 100 and 200m world and Olympic titles at the same time.