Usain Bolt will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement award.

Athletics General

Usain Bolt will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement award.

Olympic icon Usain Bolt will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards later this month.

The Jamaican, Usain Bolt,  who is now 36, won eight Olympic gold medals, including 100m and 200m titles at three consecutive Olympics, having done so at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. In addition to being the current world record-holder for 100m, 200m and 4x100m.

Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprint legend, who retired from athletics in 2017, will be recognized for his services to sport in this year's ceremony which will be held in Salford on Wednesday (Dec. 21).