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The 100m world record set in 2009 has lasted 15 years and no sprinter has came close to breaking it despite a rich crop of current elite sprinters.
Jamaican Sprints legend Usain Bolt has maintained that it will take something special for his 15-year 100m record to be broken.
The 38-year-old whose more than a decade dominance came to a sudden halt in 2017 upon retirement, was bullish regarding his long-standing record.
The three-time Olympic 200m champion set the 100-meter world record on August 16, 2009 at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, with a time of 9.58 seconds. This time shaved 0.11 seconds off his previous record, which he set at the Beijing Olympics the year before.
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Bolt's main rivals missed the competition because of various reasons making it easier for the Jamaican to cruise to victory.
15-years later, the 11-time world champion still sees no one has the capability to smash his record. "Not now, I've not seen the talent yet to get there," Bolt told TalkSport before the Paris Olympic Games.
American track star Tyson Gay and Jamaican Yohan Blake came closest to the record with a time of 9.69 seconds in 2009 and again in 2012.
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Marcel Jacobs took gold in the men's 100m at Tokyo 2020 with a time of 9.80 seconds, while Noah Lyles came through in 9.784 seconds to take 100m gold in Paris this summer.
Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic 100m and 200m titles at three consecutive Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2016). He also won two 4x100 relay gold medals. He gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first person to hold both records since fully automatic time became mandatory.
He is the most successful male athlete of the World Championships. Bolt is the first athlete to win four World Championship titles in the 200m and is one of the most successful in the 100m with three titles, being the first person to run sub-9.7s and sub-9.6s races.
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