Usain Bolt's forgotten 100m world record that first secured him GOAT status in 2008

Usain Bolt holds the men’s 100-metre world record with a time of 9.58 seconds.

It’s been over 10 years now since the Jamaican icon blew everyone’s minds at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin and nobody has even come close to threatening his feat of human excellence since.

In fact, the closest that anyone else has come to breaking Bolt‘s timeless figure are the 9.69-second runs posted by Yohan Blake and Tyson Gay, which are still miles off the pace in sprinting terms.

So, as us sports fans strap ourselves in for what could well be decades upon decades of waiting for anyone to even so much as threaten Bolt’s world record, let’s take a peek at the history-making performances that came beforehand.

Besides, there are a lot of people who forget that Bolt has actually broken humanity’s greatest 100m time on no less than three occasions throughout his career.

Almost everyone is aware of the third and final time in which he posted that clocking of 9.58 seconds and a good chunk of people recall the second instance where he slowed down celebrating at the Beijing Olympics to the tune of 9.69 seconds.

But go on, be honest, how many of you actually remember the first time that Bolt broke the record? The only time, in fact, that he broke the record when it didn’t belong to him…

Well, we suspect a lot of folks will answer ‘no’ to that question because we seldom ever see said race replayed despite the fact it announced Bolt’s arrival on the world stage as a true force of nature.

Though, we’ll let them off because it didn’t actually take place at either a World Championships or Olympics, but rather at a rain-sodden New York track for a June 2008 leg of the IAAF World Athletics Tour.

Seems inconspicuous, right? Well, perhaps