What was Bolt's silver-medal time in the 2007 Worlds men's 200 metres final?

Bolt’s silver-medal time in the 2007 World Championships men’s 200 metres final was 19.91 seconds. He ran that time in Osaka on 30 August 2007, finishing behind American winner Tyson Gay and ahead of Wallace Spearmon.

The performance was an important early marker in Bolt’s rise. He was only 21 and had not yet won an Olympic title, but a sub-20-second run on the global championship stage showed that he was already among the world’s elite 200-metre sprinters.

Gay won in 19.76 seconds, setting a championship record, while Spearmon finished third in 20.05. The 19.91 result was not a world record; the global mark before and during the championship was Michael Johnson’s 19.32, set at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

A common mix-up is to associate Bolt’s later championship record with this race. Bolt’s most famous World Championships 200-metre performance came in Berlin in 2009, when he won in a world-record 19.19 seconds.