How tall is usain bolt

Simon Zebo Paul O Connellruby player. That is most likely where his 6'5" claim comes from and also why he is listed 6'5". Running shoes are usually about an inch thick. I'd say he's in the range maybe like 6'3. And latter if he's hiding height. He looks around an inch shorter than Kobe but may have lost some from scoliosis. It can be inherited. I have relatives who have and have had it prior to surgery. He may legit have been 6''5 in his prime before surgery but looks around today.

And the kind he has on or Jordan's boots etc. Wouldn't surprise me if he were shorter than a Jared Padelecki or only maybe an inch taller than Michael phelps at most. I've seen phelps up close he's 6''2. However, Bolt's case isnt anything to be concerned of. He would probably be a few mm to 1cm taller if he had surgery.

I actually lost half a cm when my meniscus was injured because it locked my left knee and made me unable to stand completely straight. My posture was quite similar to Bolt's actually After surgery I regained the height though. And who knows, maybe his scoliosis is what that has made him fast. Look at Kobe and Barkley and Jordan with him. Now if the scoliosis comes into play and he really did lose height than he is simply claiming his "natural" height what he was before the scoliosis.

He's cm. However, Click Here , how tall do you think Blanka Vlasic is? Is she really cm,as listed,or a bit shorter? It's a real shocker considering he is the fastest man in the world, I don't really notice it on him; but, I found it in many places that he suffered from congenital scoliosis when he was young. Like KROC said below he's "about" 6'4.

Looks about 6ft4. In my honest opinion, he's gotta be a strong ass 6ft4 guy and weak ass 6ft 4. He's a weak 6'4. He's usually listed at 6'1", occassionally 6'0" or 6'2". He is too nearer to me. He can look very close to 5' 8", like Tom Cruise does. Yohan Blake looks 5'9 to me aswell Click Here I vote for the latter.

Even if we consider that Jonathan Ross lost a small fraction that still makes Bolt nothing under 6'4. Could he dip under that mark after a day of training? It's not impossible. Ultimately that could explain why he looks shorter than guys like Barkley or Bryant who everyone will agree won't dip under 6'4. Maybe he could be the same as Ibrahimovic but not shorter than him for sure.

I don't think his body fat is exceptionally low for an athlete, it's normal for an athlete. There are athletes with more extreme body fat percentages than bolt. As already pointed by archstanton, weight of boxers, athletes, swimmers will fluctuate most based on the muscle mass they carry. There slight body fat change affect their appearance far more than their weight.

That said, I agree he looks more in range than nearing I could completely believe the over lb listing for him. He's lanky as hell, but he's also packed with muscle in his torso. Its his weight that i am circumspect about. At that low a bodyfat i think he's no more than pounds. Where there other photos I missed from their meeting? I generally think he's around what he's currently listed.

I'd say he's closer to 6'4" than 6'5". Never any higher. Carl Lewis was sometimes listed at 6'3", usually at 6'2". Never any lower. And yet here's a photo of them together in Click Here Johnson was 44 at the time, and Lewis was Do you think Lewis has lost a significant amount of height, are the shoes exaggerating here, or have either of them been listed wrong their whole career?

I think the photo with Carl, maybe he's closer and looks bigger? He can look 6ft 1 at times He get off like punds and doesn't look like a barefeet 6'5 guy like Kobe Bryant where i remember Kobe edge Usain by an inch or abit over in a close up picture.

Of course he can look that sometimes but generally he looks closer to 6'5. I think is fine,not sure he would be shorter than Ibrahimovic. Ronaldo he look more 6'4 range than 6' So, i'm not convinced he's a big 6'5 anymore!

Could be just a solid 6'4 guy I always thought he was easily near 6'5 but now i wouldn't be surprised if he was something like 6''4.

Just saying A 6'4. He's just under a full 6'5". How about Clive Mantle and Ralf Moeller? You can't dispute those guys being 6'4" range!! Could he be 6''4. Maybe you could start by downgrading him to 6'4. Anyways Jonathan Ross reaches his eyebrows I would say and maybe a very very small fraction over them. I think he's at least 3. WalkingTall 6ft3. In fact he looks a bit taller in comparison than Vince Vaughn looked.

I wish there were some better pictures with Kobe. He's a legit cm. I'd be shocked in that case I do think he's no less than And yeah, i think Kobe would be taller, but just a bit I'd bet money that Kobe Bryant would edge him out. Not every athletes lies about their height, and I believe we have more than enough evidence to say he's bang-on what he's claimed.

He could have claimed cm and he actually claimed cm. If Rob wants to put him at cm - which I think he should do - that'd be fine, but he's absolutely not shorter than that. Honestly the worst he could be is 6'4. Not 6'5 lbs. Looks more at 6'3 lbs. That's why this guy is the fastest runner in the world,because the weight for his height is very light. I heard the average weight for 6'5 is lbs and 6'3 lbs. He looked more cm to me Usain bolt is looking 6'4 flat next to kobe. Barkley is 6'7" in b-ball shoes.

As I have said many times, Chuck purposefully lowers his stated height to heighten his rebounding accomplishments! I think the picture of Bolt with Kobe looks dead on. Has anyone seen Bolt dunk? He does it with absolute EASE! I meant that being listed cm or more over real height proves that they aren't measured.

SO,why giving an official listing if you don't measure someone? You agree it's sad to provide fake data,right? All I wanted to say is that since the global informations about sportsmen unlike singers,actors,etc You think approximately an inch difference is an unusual gap between an atheletes listed heights and what he or she actually is?

That's a rather a rather small listing difference. Athletes can be two or three inches sometimes even more shorter than what they are listed. BTW, I still don't see Yohan as being closer to 5'10" than 5'9".

I find it strange that Professional athletes could be that far from their listings. Maybe is more likely than ? He looked a good 16 or 17cms shorter than Bolt in London Olympics. Click Here Kobe was measured by his wife at 6'4.

So your listing is right. I saw a pic with him and blanka vlasic. She is a legit 6'4" cm. They were very similar. So a more realistic height for bolt is 6'4" cm Blanka is no way near 6' Maybe he's not a full 6'5 but he does look pretty damn close to that mark!

Search images! Asafa and Blanka next to each other - similar height. Powell: cm Vlasic: Bolt: That pic definitely proves Bolt is minimum 6'5". They are standing face to face, on even ground and both are wearing sneakers. Harry is a solid 6'2. No arguing there. Harrys eyes reach barely to Bolts mouth. Click Here I would say 6ft 4.

Maybe 6ft 5in. Max 6'3. The pic with legit 6'5" charles barkley is more than clear. And of course asafa powell is not 6'3", but closer to 6'1". He could be , 6'5 is right for him Not under 6'5. He claims but i dont think he looks it next to Bolt. What's your guess? So a more realistic height for bolt is 6'4" cm. If you watch Bolt run he towers above all of the other runners.

But he's pretty skinny and lean, an endomorph, if he was built like Yohan Blake at 6'5" and a mesomorph he'd be an absolute monster physically but that would slow him down running I think. Click Here bolt totally towers him.. Looks taller than that next to Bolt and Bryant. For years the brazilian Ronaldo was touted as 1m He started playing pro soccer at the age of 14 and by 17 he was 1m Im 6'1 and don't ever feel towered by him like a 6'5 guy does.

The moral of the story is you cant trust the number. WalkingTall 6ft 3. I thought that Bolt and Bryant are the exact same height,but maybe they are not. What do you guys think? I don't think Usian Bolt is 6'5". Paul Pierce however is clearly a little taller but thats expected as he 6'6''. I thought his legit height was cm not cm. Tom Daly and Colin Farrell looks strong 5'9"ers. So the listing covers his site's listing! Btw, Bolt claimed 6'5 in different occasions, so this is ok!

You can keep the 6'5" if you want to, but he's technically cm, which is what he gives himself as. Next to Yohan Blake 5'10ish he seems a solid 6 or 6. I believe the cm, don't think quite He is 6,5 and easy out of bed. Rob, U have him at the correct height. Anyway, that doesnt mean he cannot be 6'4.

That's still a guess, not a measurement so 6'5 is good for him! He looks huge. I don't doubt it. With a time of He celebrated by imitating the "Mobot" celebration of Mo Farah, who had claimed a long-distance track double for the host nation. The latter run brought him his first Diamond League title in the m. The campaign was directed by Seth Gordon and features the Virgin founder Branson to promote its broadband service. Bolt made a cameo appearance in the opening sketch of 13 October broadcast of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Christina Applegate.

In the sketch, Taran Killam mimicking Ryan had just lied about running a marathon, a subminute mile on no training and winning the metres in London when Bolt was introduced as his partner to confirm. Bolt went undefeated over m and m in the season. He began with wins in Rome and Ostrava in May.

He ran his first m in over a year in Oslo that June and his time of Two further m wins came in Paris and Stockholm the following month, as did a m in Monaco, though he was a tenth of a second slower than compatriot Asafa Powell before the world championships.

Considered the favourite to win in the metres at the World Championships in Daegu, Bolt was eliminated from the final, breaking "ridiculously early" according to the starter in an interview for BBC Sport, and receiving a false start.

This proved to be the highest profile disqualification for a false start since the IAAF changed the rules that previously allowed one false start per race. The disqualification caused some to question the new rule, with former world champion Kim Collins saying it was "a sad night for athletics". Usain Bolt's countryman, Yohan Blake, won in a comparatively slow 9. Following the World Championships, Bolt ran 9. This run was overshadowed by Jamaican rival Blake's unexpected run of Although Bolt failed to win the Diamond Race in a specific event, he was not beaten on the IAAF Diamond League circuit, taking three wins in each of his specialities that year.

Bolt is also a fan of Premier League football team Manchester United. He has declared he is a fan of Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy. Mills complied with Bolt's demand to run in the m, and he was entered to run the event at the 23rd Vardinoyiannia meeting in Rethymno, Crete. In his debut tournament, he won the gold medal in a time of On his return to Jamaica, Bolt was honoured in a homecoming celebration and received an Order of Distinction in recognition of his achievements at the Olympics.

Bolt turned his attention to future events, suggesting that he could aim to break the metres world record in as no major championships were scheduled that year. Early on in the outdoor season, Bolt ran Bolt made an attempt to break Michael Johnson's best time over the rarely competed metres event at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

He failed to match Johnson's ten-year-old record of In , Bolt also revealed his fondness of music, when he played a reggae DJ set to a crowd in Paris. He is also an avid fan of the Call of Duty video game series, saying, "I stay up late [playing the game online], I can't help it. In September , Bolt travelled to Australia where his sponsor Gatorade was holding an event called the "Gatorade Bolt" to find Australia's fastest footballer. The event was held at the Sydney International Athletic Centre and featured football players from rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules football, and association football.

Prior to the race Bolt gave the runners some private coaching and also participated in the 10th anniversary celebrations for the Summer Olympic Games. Bolt's autobiography, My Story: 9. Bolt had previously said that the book " He is the most successful athlete of the World Championships. Bolt is the first athlete to win four World Championship titles in the m and is the joint-most successful in the m with three titles.

Bolt improved upon his second m world record of 9. He has twice broken the metres world record, setting Bolt's most successful event is the m, with three Olympic and four World titles. The Olympics was his international debut over m; he had earlier won numerous m medals including World Championship silver and holds the world under and world under records for the event. Bolt started the season competing in the metres in order to improve his speed, winning two races and registering In late April Bolt, suffered minor leg injuries in a car crash.

However, he quickly recovered following minor surgery and after cancelling a track meet in Jamaica he stated that he was fit to compete in the metres street race at the Manchester Great City Games.

Bolt won the race in Despite not being at full fitness, he took the and m titles at the Jamaican national championships, with runs of 9. This meant he had qualified for both events at the World Championships.

Rival Tyson Gay suggested that Bolt's m record was within his grasp, but Bolt dismissed the claim and instead noted that he was more interested in Asafa Powell's return from injury. Bolt defied unfavourable conditions at the Athletissima meet in July, running The World Championships were held during August at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, which was coincidentally the same month and venue where Jesse Owens had achieved world-wide fame 73 years earlier.

Bolt eased through the m heats, clocking the fastest ever pre-final performance of 9. The final was the first time that Bolt and Gay had met during the season, and Bolt set a new world record—which stands to this day—with a time of 9. Bolt took more than a tenth of a second off his previous best mark, and this was the largest-ever margin of improvement in the m world record since the beginning of electronic timing.

Gay finished with a time of 9. Bolt's personal best of 9. Bolt also holds the second fastest time of 9. Bolt's personal best of This performance broke his previous world record in the event, his Bolt also holds the metres world teenage best results for the age categories 15 He also holds the metres world best set in , during which he ran the last metres in 8. An eight-time Olympic gold medallist, Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic m and m titles at three consecutive Olympics , and He gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times at the Beijing Olympics, which made him the first person to hold both records since fully automatic time became mandatory.

The silver medals from the Osaka World Championships boosted Bolt's desire to sprint, and he took a more serious, more mature stance towards his career. Bolt continued to develop in the m, and he decided to compete in the event at the Jamaica Invitational in Kingston. On 3 May , Bolt ran a time of 9. This was the second-fastest legal performance in the history of the event, second only to compatriot Asafa Powell's 9. Rival Tyson Gay lauded the performance, especially praising Bolt's form and technique.

Michael Johnson observed the race and said that he was shocked at how quickly Bolt had improved over the m distance. The Jamaican surprised even himself with the time, but coach Glen Mills remained confident that there was more to come. He ran 9. This race was Bolt's fifth senior m. Gay again finished second and said of Bolt: "It looked like his knees were going past my face. In June , Bolt responded to claims that he was a lazy athlete, saying that the comments were unjustified, and he trained hard to achieve his potential.

However, he surmised that such comments stemmed from his lack of enthusiasm for the metres event; he chose not to make an effort to train for that particular distance. Turning his efforts to the m, Bolt proved that he could excel in two events—first setting the world-leading time in Ostrava, then breaking the national record for the second time with a Although Mills still preferred that Bolt focus on the longer distances, the acceptance of Bolt's demand to run in the m worked for both sprinter and trainer.

Bolt was more focused in practice, and a training schedule to boost his top speed and his stamina, in preparation for the Olympics, had improved both his m and m times. Bolt stated that setting a world record was not a priority for him, and that his goal was just to win the gold medal, Jamaica's first of the Games. Olympic medallist Kriss Akabusi construed Bolt's chest slapping before the finish line as showboating, noting that the actions cost Bolt an even faster record time.

Bolt denied that this was the purpose of his celebration by saying, "I wasn't bragging. When I saw I wasn't covered, I was just happy". Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF, supported Bolt and said that his celebration was appropriate given the circumstances of his victory.

Jamaican government minister Edmund Bartlett also defended Bolt's actions, stating, "We have to see it in the glory of their moment and give it to them. We have to allow the personality of youth to express itself". Despite having the slowest start among his competitors in the m race, he still crossed the finishing line in 9. Even though the time was slower than both his newly set world record and Asafa Powell's track record, it was still among the top-fifteen m finishes by any sprinter to that date.

Bolt admitted that he was not running at full strength because he was suffering from a cold, but he concentrated on winning the race and finishing the season in good health. However, it was the m final, featuring Asafa Powell, that drew the most interest. Powell had moved closer to Bolt's world record after setting a new personal best of 9. Bolt's final event of the season came three days later at the Golden League final in Brussels.

This was the first m race featuring both Bolt and Powell since the final in the Olympics. Both Jamaicans broke the track record, but Bolt came out on top with a time of 9.

Victory, however, did not come as smoothly as it had in Beijing. Bolt made the slowest start of the nine competitors and had to recover ground in cold conditions and against a 0. Yet the results confirmed Jamaican dominance in the m, with nine of the ten-fastest legal times in history being recorded by either Bolt or Powell. Bolt has been on three world-record-setting Jamaican relay teams.

The first record, The second record came at the World Championships in Athletics, a time of The third world record was set at the Summer Olympics, a time of Bolt completed a total of 53 wind-legal subsecond performances in the m during his career, with his first coming on 3 May and his last on 5 August at the World Championships.

His longest undefeated streak in the m was in 17 finals, lasting from 12 June to 3 September He also had a win-streak covering 14 m finals from 16 August to 16 July He passed the finishing post with a time of Wallace Spearmon from the United States won gold with a championship record time of Further m honours on both the regional and international stages awaited Bolt in He yearned to run in the metres but Mills was skeptical, believing that Bolt was better suited for middle distances.

The coach cited the runner's difficulty in smoothly starting out of the blocks and poor habits such as looking back at opponents in sprints. Mills told Bolt that he could run the shorter distance if he broke the m national record. In the Jamaican Championships, he ran He built on this achievement at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, winning a silver medal. Bolt recorded The race was won by Tyson Gay in Jamaica set a national record of Bolt did not win any gold medals at the major tournaments in , but Mills felt that Bolt's technique was much improved, pinpointing improvements in Bolt's balance at the turns over m and an increase in his stride frequency, giving him more driving power on the track.

The m remained Bolt's primary event when he returned to competition; he bested Justin Gatlin's meet record in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Bolt had aspired to run under twenty seconds to claim a season's best but, despite the fact that bad weather had impaired his run, he was happy to end the meeting with just the victory. However, a subsecond finish was soon his, as he set a new personal best of Bolt had focused his athletics aims, stating that was a year to gain experience. Also, he was more keen on competing over longer distances, setting his sights on running regularly in both m and m events within the next two years.

The year signalled a fresh start for Bolt in the form of a new coach, Glen Mills, and a new attitude toward athletics. Mills recognised Bolt's potential and aimed to cease what he considered an unprofessional approach to the sport. Bolt began training with Mills in preparation for the upcoming athletics season, partnering with more seasoned sprinters such as Kim Collins and Dwain Chambers. The year began well, and in July, he knocked more than a third of a second off the m CAC Championship record with a run of Misfortune awaited Bolt at the next major event, the World Championships in Helsinki.

Bolt felt that both his work ethic and athleticism had much improved since the Olympics, and he saw the World Championships as a way to live up to expectations, stating, "I really want to make up for what happened in Athens. Hopefully, everything will fall into place".

Bolt qualified with runs under 21 s, but he suffered an injury in the final, finishing in last place with a time of Injuries were preventing him from completing a full professional athletics season, and the eighteen-year-old Bolt still had not proven his mettle in the major world-athletics competitions.

However, his appearance made him the youngest ever person to appear in a m world final. Bolt was involved in a car accident in November, and although he suffered only minor facial lacerations, his training schedule was further upset. His manager, Norman Peart, made Bolt's training less intensive, and he had fully recuperated the following week. Bolt had continued to improve his performances, and he reached the world top-5 rankings in and Peart and Mills stated their intentions to push Bolt to do longer sprinting distances with the aim of making the m event his primary event by or Bolt was less enthusiastic, and demanded that he feel comfortable in his sprinting.

He suffered another hamstring injury in March , forcing him to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and he did not return to track events until May. After his recovery, Bolt was given new training exercises to improve flexibility, and the plans to move him up to the m event were put on hold. He became the first junior sprinter to run the m in under twenty seconds, taking the world junior record outright with a time of A hamstring injury in May ruined Bolt's chances of competing in the World Junior Championships, but he was still chosen for the Jamaican Olympic squad.

Bolt headed to the Athens Olympics with confidence and a new record on his side. However, he was hampered by a leg injury and was eliminated in the first round of the metres with a disappointing time of American colleges offered Bolt track scholarships to train in the United States while continuing to represent Jamaica on the international stage, but the teenager from Trelawny refused them all, stating that he was content to stay in his homeland of Jamaica.

Bolt instead chose the surroundings of the University of Technology, Jamaica, as his professional training ground, staying with the university's track and weight room that had served him well in his amateur years. Although Gay withdrew from the second race of the competition, Bolt once again produced world record-breaking time in the metres final.

He broke his own record by 0. He won the m race by the largest margin in World Championships history, even though the race had three other athletes running under Bolt's pace impressed even the more experienced of his competitors; third-placed Wallace Spearmon complimented his speed, and the Olympic champion in Athens Shawn Crawford said "Just coming out there I felt like I was in a video game, that guy was moving — fast".

Bolt pointed out that an important factor in his performance at the World Championships was his improved start to the races: his reaction times in the m 0. He won another gold at the World Youth Championships.

He set a new championship record in the m with a time of Michael Johnson, the m world-record holder, took note of Bolt's potential but worried that the young sprinter might be over-pressured, stating, "It's all about what he does three, four, five years down the line". Bolt competed in his final Jamaican High School Championships in He broke the m and m records with times of Bolt's runs were a significant improvement upon the previous records, beating the m best by more than half a second and the m record by almost a second.

While Bolt improved upon the m time three months later, setting the still-standing World youth best at the Pan American Junior Championships. The m time remains No. As the reigning m champion at both the World Youth and World Junior championships, Bolt hoped to take a clean sweep of the world m championships in the Senior World Championships in Paris.

He beat all comers at the m in the World Championship trials. Bolt was pragmatic about his chances and noted that, even if he did not make the final, he would consider setting a personal best a success.