LONDON, 9 August – Usain Bolt is the first man to win the 200m at two Olympic Games but there’s more to the his legend.

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[naviga:li]Usain Bolt is the first man to win the Olympic 200m title twice. This is the 26th time the men’s 200m has been held.[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]Bolt became the fifth athlete to win five or more Olympic gold medals in athletics, joining Carl Lewis (USA, nine), Paavo Nurmi I (Finland, nine), Ray Ewry (USA, eight) and Ville Ritola (Finland, five).[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]Bolt is the first athlete to win five Olympic gold medals in athletics before turning 26.[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]Bolt surpassed Lewis to become the first athlete to win four combined Olympic gold medals in the 100m and 200m. Lewis is the only other athlete with three combined titles.[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]Bolt surpassed Michael Johnson (USA) to become the first man with four 200m titles at the Olympic Games and world championships combined. Bolt joins Allyson Felix (USA) as the only athletes in either gender with four Olympic and world championship 200m titles.[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]Yohan Blake is the fourth man to win silver in both the 100m and 200m at the same Olympic Games, and the first since Frankie Fredricks (Namibia), who did it twice, in 1992 and 1996.[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]With bronze for Warren Weir, Jamaica swept the medals in a men’s Olympic event for the first time, and become the second National Olympic Committee to sweep the men’s 200m after the USA. The USA has won all three medals six times in this discipline, most recently in 2004.[/naviga:li]

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[naviga:li]The United States missed a medal in the men’s 200m for only the second time in the last 18 Olympic Games in which it participated. The previous occasion was 2000.[/naviga:li]

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