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Usain Bolt Remains World’s Fastest Man, Surges To Historic Straight 100m Olympic Gold.
Usain Bolt has defended his 100m Olympic title, after he finished in a time of 9.81 seconds to win gold on Monday.
Bolt stormed to the finish line ahead of Justin Gatlin, who claimed silver in 9.89secs and Canadian Andre de Grasse who took bronze in 9.91secs.
The Jamaican sprinter adds Rio 2016 to London 2012 and Beijing 2008 to his Olympic 100m gold medal collection. He will also be looking to emulate the last two Games by adding 200m and 4x100m relay gold on Sunday night.
Competing in his final Olympics ahead of his planned retirement after next year’s World Championships in London, Bolt told the BBC: “I’m really happy but I expected to go faster. I’m just happy that I won and that’s the key thing.
“After the semi-final I felt extremely good. I wanted to run faster but with the turnaround time, we normally have two hours, but we had one hour 20 minutes, it was challenging. This is what we train for. I told you guys I was going to do it. Stay tuned, two more to go.”