What was Usain Bolt's winning time in the men's 100m final at the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Usain Bolt won the 2008 Olympic 100-metre final in 9.69 seconds. The Jamaican sprinter set a world and Olympic record at Beijing's National Stadium on August 16.
Bolt's performance was extraordinary even before the finish. He ran with no favorable wind, recorded a reaction time of 0.165 seconds, and pulled well clear of Trinidad and Tobago's Richard Thompson, who finished in 9.89 seconds. Bolt also began celebrating before crossing the line, and one shoelace was untied.
The 9.69 mark improved Bolt's own world record of 9.72 seconds, set in New York earlier in 2008. It was later surpassed by Bolt himself: he ran 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, a mark that remains his 100-metre world record.
The most common mix-up is using 9.58 seconds, Bolt's later world-record time, or 9.63 seconds, his Olympic record from London 2012. Beijing's winning time was 9.69.