Usain Bolt Never Achieved World Record Disgraced British Sprinter Did

Usain Bolt never achieved a record that is currently held by a British sprinter.

Bolt is widely regarded as the greatest ever sprinter, with the Jamaican having set both the 100m (9.58 seconds) and 200m (19.19s) world records at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany.

At the 2012 Olympics, Bolt then went on to clock a world record in the 4 x 100m relay, alongside Nesta Carter, Yohan Blake, and Michael Frater.

Indeed, across his medal-laden career, Bolt was an 11-time world champion, eight-time Olympic gold medalist and broke the 100m world record some three times.

However, there is one record the 39-year-old never achieved.

Indeed, Britain’s Dwain Chambers is the only athlete to break 10 seconds for 100m in three decades - the 90s, 00s, and 2010s. Bolt only managed to break the 10 second barrier in the 00s and 2010s.

In February 2004, months before the Athens Olympic Games, Chambers was banned for two years upon failing a test for tetrahydrogestrinone, a steroid.

Chambers, who last ran for Great Britain in 2014, attempted to break into the NFL during his two-year doping ban.

Usain Bolt after setting the current 100m world record (Credit:Getty)

Despite returning to sprinting in 2006, he had another unsuccessful attempt to break into American Football in 2007, followed by a failed trial spell at rugby league club Castleford Tigers in 2008.

Nevertheless, Chambers went on to win the 60m world indoor title in Doha in 2010, before taking gold at the bronze two years later in Istanbul.

He officially retired in July 2017 but went on to run in the British Indoors 60m Championships in 2019 and 2024.

Chambers apologised after his doping ban, paid back a six-figure prize-money sum and now gives talks about the dangers of drugs.