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"100 m": 9.86 s (Lausanne 1999)

"200 m": 19.77 s (Stuttgart 1997)

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"Ato Jabari Boldon" (born 30 December 1973) is a former track and field athletics/athlete from Trinidad and Tobago and four-time Olympic Games/Olympic medal winner. Only three other men in history—Usain Bolt, Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis—have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the current Trinidad and Tobago national record holder in the 50 metres/50, 60 metres/60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64, 6.49 and 19.77 seconds respectively. He also held the 100m national record at 9.86, having run it four times, until Richard Thompson ran 9.85 on 13 August 2011. He also holds the List of Commonwealth Games records in athletics/Commonwealth Games record in the 100 m.

After retiring from his track career, he was an Opposition (parliamentary)/Opposition Senate of Trinidad and Tobago/Senator in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament, representing the United National Congress from 2006–2007. He is now a ESPN and NBC Sports television broadcast analyst for track and field.