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Usain Bolt (Jamaica) Athletics, 23
Usain Bolt followed his wonderful Olympic year with an equally spectacular 2009. At the World Championships in Berlin, Bolt won 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay gold medals, just as he had done in Beijing 12 months earlier. In the 100 metres, Bolt improved his world record with a time of 9.58secs, taking over a tenth of a second off the previous record, the biggest ever margin of improvement since the introduction of electronic timing. He also won the 200 metres gold medal in a new world record time of 19.19secs, breaking his own record by 0.11secs. He was also a member of the Jamaican team which won the 4x100 metres relay gold medal. Bolt won the 2009 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award after his performance in Beijing.
