Usain Bolt Bibliography - Year 2006

Due to his injury he could not compete that season and misfortune followed him in 2006. Bolt suffered another hamstring injury and had to withdraw from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

When he started competing again he did it with grace and glory as he set a new personal record at the 2006 Grand Pix in Lausanne running 19.88 seconds. Only two months after Grand Pix, Bolt won his first world medal at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart finishing with 20.10 seconds.

In the IAAF World Cup in Athens Bolt was beaten by Wallace Spearmon 19.87s, leaving Bolt with a silver medal 19.96 s, however it was Bolt’s first international silver medal. Later that year Bolt ran the Jamaican Championship in front of a big audience breaking the Jamaican record, Bolt finished 200 meters in 19.75 seconds. Continue reading about Usain Bolt in 2007.