World Best Sprinter, Usain Bolt, Gone for the Season

World record holder in the 100 & 200 is out with an injury

Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, may be gone for the season.  The planets fastest sprinter is cutting his season short due to a lower back injury.

Ricky Simms, Bolt’s manager, sent an email stating that the world record holder in both the 100 and 200 meters is going in for treatment and will be skipping the IAAF Diamond League track and field meets in Zurich next week the Brussels meet at the end of August.

Bolt was undefeated in two years of individual competition until dropping a 100 meter race to American sprinter, Tyson Gay in Stockholm.  The American ran a 9.84 second race with Bolt clocking in at 9.97.

Bolt, who stands at 6 feet 5 inches, is the Tiger Woods of professional track and field bringing in millions of spectators to watch with interest the “fastest man in the world.”

Manager Simms is already planning Bolt’s return to the track during the 2011 season.

World’s Fastest: Bolt, Powell and Gay

Asafa Powell celebrates his personal best

WORLD’S BEST SPRINTERS, BOLT, POWELL & GAY

   How do they do it?  Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, along with American Tyson Gay are the fastest men on the planet.

   Both Bolt and Powell share the fastest time this year of 9.82 seconds with Bolt being the World Record holder in the 100 meters.

World Record Holder, Usain Bolt

Bolt’s 9.82 seconds came on July 9^th during competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, while Powell hit that time on June 10^th during a meet in Rome.

   Powell is the last person to have beaten the “Lightning Bolt” in the 100, during a meet in 2008 in Stockholm.  Bolt has improved considerably since his last defeat and now is the 100 and 200 meter World Champion.

   Outside of Bolt, Powell and Gay is French national champion, Christophe Lemaitre, who set a personal best time in the 100 of 9.98 seconds in front of his home crowd.

  In 2009 Bolt set a French record by clocking 9.79 seconds, but was way off his World Record of 9.58 seconds.

   Naturally, a meet with Bolt, Powell, Gay and Lemaitre would be a track & field fans dream come true.   But how does a tiny country of Jamaica produce two of the world’s best sprinters?

World’s Top 3 Male Track & Field Athletes for 2010

Usain Bolt rated #1 in world

1)     USAIN BOLT – JAMAICA – 100 & 200

Bolt is the World Record holder in both the 100 & 200 meter races.  He continues to dominate on the world scene most recently winning in Shanghai.

Bolt holds world and Olympic records in both the 100 and 200 meters, with time of 9.58 seconds and 19.30 seconds respectively.  He is the first man in history to beak both world records at one Olympics and the first man to win both the 100 and 200 meter events at the same Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984.

Tyson Gay ranked #2 in world

2)     TYSON GAY – USA – 100

Career Highlights: 2009 World Outdoor 100m silver medalist; 2007 World Outdoor 100m, 200m champion and 4x100m gold medalist; 2007 Visa Outdoor champion;  3-time USA 100m champion (2006-2008); 2005 USA 200m champion; 2004 NCAA 100m champion; 2002 JUCO 100m champion; 2004 SEC 100m, 200m, 4x100m champion; 2007 & 2009 Jesse Owens Award winner

Ezekiel Kemboi ranked #3 in world

3)    EZEKIEL KEMBOI – KENYA – 3K STEEPLECHASE

Personal best     3,000m Steeplechase: 8:02.49 (2003) 

Career highlights

2002 – 2nd, Commonwealth Games, Manchester
2003 – 2nd, World Championships, Paris
2003 – 1st, All Africa Games, Abuja
2004 – 1st, Olympic Games, Athens
2005 – 2nd, World Championships, Helsinki
2006 – 1st, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne  

2010	8:06.28		Doha	14/05/2010
	2009	7:58.85		Doha	08/05/2009
	2008	8:09.25		Athína (Olympic Stadium)	13/07/2008
	2007	8:05.50		Athína (Olympic Stadium)	02/07/2007

 

Worlds Fastest Sprinters in 2009: Richards & Bolt

Sanya Richards, USA

Sanya Richards:

  

	World Champion, 400m (’09)
–	American Record Holder~400m dash 48.70sec
–	Most sub-50 400meter races in history
–	2-time Olympic 4x400m gold medalist and 400m bronze medalist (’04, ’08)
–	5-time USA Outdoor Champion (’03, ’05, ’06, ’08, ’09);
–	2-time World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist (’05, ’07)
–	IAAF World Athlete of the Year and Jesse Owens Award winner (2006)
–	World Outdoor silver medalist (2005))
–	Visa Champion and Humanitarian Athlete of the Year (2005))

Usain Bolt, Jamaica

Usain Bolt

Personal bests

Event	Time (seconds)	Venue	Date	Records	Notes
100 metres	9.58	Berlin, Germany	16 August 2009		Also shares the second fastest time of 9.69 with Tyson Gay. Usain’s 9.69 set the Olympic record in 2008.
150 metres	14.35	Manchester, United Kingdom	17 May 2009	World best[147]	He ran the last 100 m in 8.70, the fastest ever recorded time over a 100 m distance.
200 metres	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009		Also holds the second fastest time with 19.30, which is the Olympic Record.
400 metres	45.28[7]	Kingston, Jamaica	5 May 2007
4 x 100 metres relay	37.10	Beijing, China	22 August 2008		Shared with Asafa Powell, Michael Frater and Nesta Carter. Also holds the second fastest time with 37.31.

Top 20 Male Performances at World Track & Field Championships

Long jump champion, Dwight Phillips

All-athletics.com has ranked the top 20 male performaces at the IAAF World Championship Track & Field Meet from Berlin.

Usain Bolt	100m
Usain Bolt	200m
Jamaica	4x100m
Tyson Gay	100m
Ezekiel Kemboi	3000mSC
Kenenisa Bekele	10000m
Abel Kirui	Marathon
Christian Cantwell	Shot Put
Lashawn Merritt	400m
Dwight Phillips	Long Jump
Phillips Idowu	Triple Jump
Sergey Kirdyapkin	50km Walk
Trey Hardee	Decathlon
Robert Harting	Discus
Kerron Clement	400m Hurdles
Steven Hooker	Pole Vault
Ryan Braithwaite	110m Hurdles
Valeriy Borchin	20km Walk
Trinidad and Tobago	4x100m
Alonso Edwards	200m
Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong	3000mSC
USA	4x400m