TRIPLE Olympic and World Championships gold medalist, Usain Bolt, now has one of the world’s fastest tracks to train on.

German track manufacturers, BSW Regupol, which constructed the blue track where Bolt set 100m and 200m world records of 9.58 and 19.19 seconds at the World Championships in Berlin last summer, yesterday handed over a similar track to the Jamaican superstar on the ground of the University of the West Indies.

The eight lane 400 metre track, which was made possible by Regupol and PUMA on lands contributed by UWI, was completed 161 days after ground was broken for the project on November 14.

Bolt was full of praise for the BSW Regupol team, who initially offered him a-four-lane 150 metre portion of the Berlin track last summer.

“It’s just wonderful to know that I’ll always have a track to train on and I know my coach is happy about that because we won’t have to worry about the National Stadium being rented out,” Bolt said.

The track will be utilised by athletes from UWI, Racers Track Club and IAAF High Performance Training Centre.

On November 11, 2009, a 20-year agreement was signed by UWI's principal, professor Gordon Shirley, and president of the Racers Track Club, Glen Mills, as the institution moves to pair sporting excellence with science to establish itself as the premier facilitator of sports development in the region.

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