Where is Usain Bolt now? 'World's fastest man' still holds 100-meter dash world and Olympic records

Eight men will compete in the 100m final Sunday for the unofficial title of "fastest man in the world." For nearly a decade, there was no debate about who held that designation.

Jamaican sprinting legend Usain Bolt dominated the track at three consecutive Olympics before calling it quits after the 2016 Summer Games, and he made the 100m look like just another race.

Bolt won his first 100m Olympic gold by a wide margin in 2008, only to come back four years later and post an even better time of 9.63. In 2016, even as he prepared for retirement, no one was able to eclipse Bolt in the 100m or the 200m.

Bolt would later write a book, "9:58: Being The World's Fastest Man," with the title a reference to his world-record time in the 100m dash — a record that still stands. While many athletes like to say they are the best at what they do, no one to this day would tell Bolt he wasn't the world's fastest man.

Where is Bolt now? Here's what you need to know about Bolt's post-retirement activities and the records he set when he was active.

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Where is Usain Bolt now?

Bolt is set to turn 38 later in August and is far removed from his days of competitive sprinting.

He retired from Olympic competition after the 2016 Games but participated in the 4x100m relay at the World Athletics Championships in 2017. In that race, though, he pulled up with a serious hamstring injury and required the help of his teammates just to cross the finish line.

The emotional moment marked the formal end of Bolt's track and field career. It wasn't necessarily the end of Bolt's athletic career, though.

A longtime soccer fan, Bolt dabbled in soccer after his sprinting days wrapped up. He trained with Norwegian club Stromsgodset and Australian club Central Coast Mariners, playing in exhibition matches with both teams. Bolt would later sign a professional contract with the Mariners but only spent two months with the club and soon said his athletic career was over.

Bolt has had a few business ventures in his post-sprinting career, working briefly as a music producer and starting an electric scooter company that operated from 2018 to 2022.

In the meantime, Bolt has started a family. He and his girlfriend, Kasi Bennett, welcomed a daughter in 2020 and twin boys in 2021. He lives in Jamaica and started The Usain Bolt Foundation to create opportunities for children across the island. Beyond that, he now lives a much quieter life than he did when he was one of the most recognizable athletes in the world.

How fast was Usain Bolt?

Bolt set his world record of 9.58 seconds in the 100m in 2009 by running at a top speed of 27.8 mph. No one has been able to match that mark since.

Bolt's unbelievable speed translated to plenty of competitive records that still stand today, and every sprinter running the 100m dash Sunday will be chasing — likely unsuccessfully — records held by Bolt.

Usain Bolt 100-meter dash records

Bolt holds the all-time 100-meter dash record of 9.58 seconds, set in 2009, and he holds the Olympic record of 9.63 seconds set in 2012.

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Usain Bolt Olympic medal history

Bolt won nothing but gold in his Olympic career, earning eight gold medals.

He actually retired with nine gold medals, but the Jamaican 4x100m relay team was later stripped of its 2008 gold medal after Nesta Carter was accused of doping. Trinidad and Tobago was awarded the gold instead, nearly nine years after the Beijing Olympics.