Usain Bolt looking to break his own world record

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt has his goals for 2014 ready and it involves breaking his own 200-metre world record with no major competitions to divert his focus and attention.

Bolt was last week named the IAAF male World Athlete of the Year for a record fifth time after a triple-gold medal return at this year’s World Championships in Moscow where he defended both his sprint titles, in the 100m and 200m. He also ran the anchor leg for Jamaica in the 4x100m relay to take them to gold.

Despite that, no world records were set though by the Jamaican.

“Definitely for this season me and my coach have decided to focus on running faster because there is no championship, so we are definitely targeting the 200 metres,” Bolt said during a visit to Tokyo‘s Olympic Stadium on Friday.

“We’ll see what happens. Hopefully I can stay injury-free and everything will go well this season and I can break the world record.”

The current world record in the 200m of 19.19s and 100m of 9.58 were both set by Bolt at the world championships in Berlin in 2009.

“It’s all about not getting injured this season,” said Bolt. “That’s my focus, and then we’re going to try to push myself and hopefully get the world record and it will all work out.

“We’re going to to run a lot more 200 this season and we’ll see if we can get it done.”

Bolt revealed on Friday that his coach is of the belief that the sprinter can continue right until the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

“At the beginning of the season I had a meeting with my coach, and we were talking about how long I can go on in track and field for,” said Bolt.

“I was saying 2017 would be the max and he said I probably could go to the Tokyo Olympics if I wanted to. I was like ‘it’s kind of far.’

“So it’s something on his mind and not on my mind. I want to retire in 2017, but even if I don’t run here I’ll definitely be here because I enjoy watching track and field. We’ll see what happens, but I want to retire in 2017.”