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Usain Bolt's career in numbers

As Usain Bolt prepares to take his final bow at the world championships in London, here's the Jamaican sprinter's career in numbers.

USAIN BOLT'S CAREER IN NUMBERS

9.58 sec - Bolt's 100m world record, set at the 2009 world championships in Berlin.

19.19 sec - his 200m record from the same championships.

36.84 sec - he holds a complete set of sprint world records after Jamaica's relay efforts at the London 2012 Olympics.

27.79mph - Bolt's fastest recorded speed on the track. It was measured from his time of 1.61 seconds for the 60-to-80m split in his record 100m run in Berlin.

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8 - Olympic gold medals on Bolt's record. He lost another from the 4x100m relay at Beijing 2008 when team-mate Nesta Carter failed a retrospective drugs test.

11 - world titles.

4 - times Bolt has been named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.

6 - he has been named IAAF Male Athlete of the Year half a dozen times.


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