Usain Bolt to race on his country’s soil for the last time
Individual sports
- 15 October, 2016
- 07:14
Baku. 15 October. REPORT.AZ/ 9-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will run his last race in Jamaica.
Report informs, the sprinter will compete at Racers Grand Prix in 2017 summer.
Bolt noted that he will end his career after world championship: "Yes I am definitely going to retire after the world championships in London. But in summer I will run my last race in Jamaica".
Notably, Bolt won 9 Olympic gold medals in Beijing-2008, London-2012 and Rio-2016. He won 3 gold medals in 2015 world championship and became 11-time world champion. He holds world records in 100m (9.58 seconds) and 200m (19.19 meters) sprint.
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