www.brunel.ac.uk | In summer 2011 Usain Bolt trained at Brunel University for the World Athletics Championships in Deagu, Korea. He took time out to meet some of Brunel's up-and-coming athletes at the University's Indoor Athletics Centre on the West London campus. The athletes, Ashley Bryant, Junior Ejehu, Stephanie Gaynor and Shakira Whight, had the chance to question the triple Olympic Champion on his approach to training and competition as well as his love of fast cars and Manchester United.
Usain Bolt is the fastest man of all-time. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing the Jamaican won the 100m in a world record time of 9.69s. He went on to win the 200m in another world record of 19.30s, eclipsing the mark of the legendary Michael Johnson from 1996. In the 4 x 100m relay Bolt and his Jamaican teammates (including former world record holder Asafa Powell) took another gold medal in a world record time of 37.10s. His achievements in 2008 earned Bolt the awards of Laureus World Sportsman of the Year and BBC International Sports Personality of the Year.
In 2009 Bolt and the Racers Track Club team had their training base at Brunel University for the summer season. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin that year Bolt again won the 100m in a new world record of 9.58s, took the 200m in a world record of 19.19s, and he anchored the Jamaican 4 x 100m relay team to gold in 37.31s.
In 2011 Bolt remained unbeaten going into the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, Korea. In the 100m final the world waited with baited breath for the showdown between Bolt and his training partner Yohan Blake; another Jamaican who had qualified fastest. It was the race that never was, however, as Bolt false-started and was disqualified. Bolt quickly moved on from the disaster of the 100m with a breathtaking run in the 200m to retain his world title in 19.40s. On the final day of the Championships the Jamaican 4 x 100m relay team was again in world record form, scorching their way to the gold medal in 37.06s.
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