- Video
-
Club Roar
Captured a great grassroots sporting moment? We want to see it!Content Collections
The Roar Community
- Join
- Login
Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt has won the men’s 100m final for the third straight Olympic Games, matching his achievement from London in 2012 and Beijing in 2008.
Bolt’s main rival Justin Gatlin got the silver medal, having blitzed out of the blocks. Despite all the boos ringing around the athletics stadium in Rio, Gatlin started well and managed to hold on from Canadian Andre De Grasse, to win his third medal in the Olympic 100m.
» Re-live the race with our live blog
De Grasse hammered home to threaten Gatlin, but no one was going to catch Bolt, who asserted his dominance 50 metres into the race.
Out of the blocks it looked like it would be Gatlin all the way – Bolt struggled to get up to top speed. But when he did reach it at the halfway point of the run, there simply was no stopping him. With a man of his athletic talent, it’s the fact that Bolt can overcome a bad start to blitz the field in the way he did that makes him so special.
You would consider this a relatively poor run for Bolt, considering his start, and yet he still managed to storm home in a time 9.81. Remarkable, and it goes to show why he will go down as one of the best athletes of all time.
Remarkably, six of the eight runners managed to clock under 10 seconds. It was a uniformly quick final, which was won relatively comfortably by Bolt in the end.
At just 21, there’s a huge future in the sport for Andre De Grasse. He came home very quick to be just pipped by Gatlin for the silver, clocking a time of 9.91.
What did you make of the men’s 100m final Roarers? And is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time?
Usain Bolt crossing the finish line to win the men’s 100m final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (photo: AAP)
Final results of the men’s 100m:
1. Usain Bolt – Jamaica – 9.81s
2. Justin Gatlin – United States – 9.89s
3. Andre De Grasse – Canada – 9.91s
4. Yohan Blake – Jamaica – 9.93s
5. Akani Simbine – South Africa – 9.94s
6. Ben Youssef Meïté – Côte d’Ivoire – 9.96s
7. Jimmy Vicaut – France – 10.04s
8. Trayvon Bromell – United States – 10.06s