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20 August, 2008
Usain Bolt (Jamaica) wins the men's 200m sprint at the Beijing Olympic Games with a world-record time of 19.3 seconds.
Bolt also broke world records in the 100m and, along with his teammates, in the 4100m relay, becoming the first man in history to set all three records at a single Olympics.
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