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Bolt was born on 21 August 1986 in Sherwood Content, a small town in Trelawny, Jamaica, and grew up with his parents, Wellesley and Jennifer Bolt, his brother Sadeeki, and his sister Sherine.His parents ran the local grocery store in the rural area, and Bolt spent his time playing cricket and footballin the street with his brother,later saying, "When I was young, I didn’t really think about anything other than sports".

is a Jamaicansprinter and a five-time World and three-time Olympic gol medalist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and (along with his teammates) the 4×100 metres relay. He is the reigning Olympic champion in these three events. Bolt won a 200 m gold medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, making him the competition's youngest-ever gold medalist. In 2004, at the CARIFTA Games, he became the first junior sprinter to run the 200 m in under 20 seconds with a time of 19.93 s, 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 broke Don Quarrie's 200 m Jamaican record with a run of 19.75 s.  His 2008 season began with his first world recordperformance—a 100 m world record of 9.72 s—and culminated in world and Olympic records in both the 100 m and 200 m events at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. He ran 9.69 s for the 100 m and 19.30 s in the 200 m, and also set a 4×100 m relay record of 37.10 s 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 100 m and 200 m world records to 9.58 s and 19.19 s respectively at the 2009 Worl Championships. This made him the first man to hold both the 100 and 200 m world and Olympic titles at the same time.



His 2009 record breaking margin over 100 m is the highest since the start of digital time measurements.His achievements in sprinting have earned him the media nickname "Lightning Bolt" and awards including the //IAAF////World////Athlete of the Year//, //Trac////k &// //Field////Athlete of the Year//, and //Laureus// //Sportsman of the Year//.