What is the world record time for the 200 metres held by Usain Bolt?

Usain Bolt's 200-metre world-record time is 19.19 seconds.

Bolt ran 19.19 seconds in the 200-metre final at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, on 20 August 2009. He won the race ahead of Panama's Alonso Edward and Jamaica's Wallace Spearmon, setting a mark that remains the men's world record.

The performance improved Bolt's own previous world record of 19.30 seconds, set when he won the 200 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The 2009 race was run with a legal headwind of 0.3 metres per second, meaning the record was not aided by excessive wind. Bolt's average speed over the full distance was roughly 37.5 kilometres per hour.

Readers sometimes confuse 19.19 with 19.30 because both times belong to Bolt and both were world-record performances. The key distinction is that 19.30 came first, in Beijing, while 19.19 was the later and faster mark set in Berlin.