The crazy moment Usain Bolt narrowly escaped losing his 200m WR in front of his own eyes

Usain Bolt's 200-metre world record is arguably more impressive than his 100-metre feat.

When the Olympic legend clocked a mind-boggling time of 19.19 seconds at the 2009 World Championships, the sporting world stood collectively in shock with their jaws firmly on the floor.

Bolt had demolished the field in Berlin with the greatest half-lap in history to improve upon the world record of 19.30 seconds that he'd established at the Beijing Olympics the previous year.

However, those two blistering runs proved to be the only occasions in which Bolt dipped below the previous world record that Michael Johnson had set at 19.32 seconds during Atalanta 1996.

That's not a criticism, by the way, because Johnson's time was one of the biggest improvements on a sprinting world record that had ever been seen, so it's miraculous that it was ever broken.

But it's interesting to note that of the three times to ever be posted below that historic 19.32-second mark, 'only' two of them belong to Bolt.

Yes, that's right, Yohan Blake came a nose hair away from breaking Bolt's astonishing record while it was barely two years old when he clocked in at a barely-believable time of 19.26 seconds.

And although split-seconds can translate to a lot of distance in sprinting, trust us that 0.07 seconds is still an incredibly close margin when it comes to competing for the 200m world record.

In fact, not only does Blake's stunning time endure as the second-fastest 200m run in history that only Bolt ran faster than once, but the great man was actually in attendance for the race itself.

Having won the 100 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels with a world-best time of 9.76 seconds, Bolt watched on as Blake almost snatched his world record in the