Justin Gatlin was the only athlete to defeat Usain Bolt in a 100-metre final at a global championship. Gatlin beat him at the 2017 World Championships in London, Bolt's final major competition.
Gatlin won in 9.92 seconds, with Christian Coleman second in 9.94 and Bolt third in 9.95. The result ended Bolt's long unbeaten run in major-championship 100-metre finals and prevented the farewell victory many spectators expected.
Bolt had won the world 100-metre title in 2009, 2013 and 2015. In 2011, he did not finish the final because he was disqualified for a false start, so that race does not count as another athlete defeating him in a completed final.
Gatlin had previously finished behind Bolt in the 2015 World Championship final, despite entering that race as the season's leading sprinter. Their rivalry therefore included both a narrow Bolt victory and Gatlin's decisive win in Bolt's last championship race.