Usain Bolt will bring down the curtain on his illustrious career when he retires after the Athletics World Championships in London. Here are the key numbers behind one of history’s greatest sportsmen.
Bolt has eight Olympic gold medals to his name - at the World Championships he has earned 11 golds and two silvers
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Bolt’s winning margins at major championships
2008 Olympic Games: 0.2sec (beat Richard Thompson)
2009 World Championships: 0.13sec (Tyson Gay)
2012 Olympic Games: 0.13sec (Yohan Blake)
2013 World Championships: 0.18sec (Justin Gatlin)
2015 World Championships: 0.01sec (Gatlin)
2016 Olympic Games: 0.08sec (Gatlin)
Bolt isn’t invincible - his rare defeats include second place behind Yohan Blake, left, at Jamaica’s Olympic trials in 2012...
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...and finishing behind Justin Gatlin, left, at a Golden Gala event in 2013
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Speed demon
At 27.44mph, Bolt would run a mile in 2min 18sec
He would complete a marathon in 57min 33sec (26.2 miles)
It would take him 31.2 hours to run the length of Britain (874 miles)
And he would travel the length of the equator in 906.48 hours (24,874 miles)
This year, Forbes ranked Bolt as the 23rd highest paid athlete in the world - he earned $34.2m (£26.2m) in total. $32m (£24.5m) in endorsements and $2.2m (£1.7m) from his salary/winnings
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Social media
Instagram: 7.1m followers
Twitter: 4.7m followers
Facebook: 19.4m likes
Bolt
When Bolt won the 100m at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin and broke the world record in the process, he received £124,000 in prize money - for every second of the final he earned £12,944
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Bolt in quotes
On working out: “When I’m at the gym, I think about chicks, going to the beach, and looking good. I do it for the girls.”
On race tactics: “I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.”
On settling down: “You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.”
On his attitude to training: “Yeah, I am lazy. There’s no doubt about that.”
On Cristiano Ronaldo: “Since I taught Ronaldo in 2009 he has gone on to score 40 goals a season, I don’t think he would have scored them all without my training.”
On eating chicken nuggets at the Beijing Olympics: “At first I ate a box of 20 for lunch, then another for dinner. The next day I had two boxes for breakfast, one for lunch and then another couple in the evening. I even grabbed some fries and an apple pie to go with it” – on eating chicken nuggets at the Beijing Olympics