 Bolt claimed his first major world medal two months later at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart , Germany . He passed the finishing post with a time of 20 @.@ 10 s , gaining a bronze medal in the process . The IAAF World Cup in Athens , Greece , yielded Bolt 's first senior international silver medal . Wallace Spearmon from the United States won gold with a championship record time of 19 @.@ 87 s , beating Bolt 's respectable time of 19 @.@ 96 s . Further 200 m honours on both the regional and international stages awaited Bolt in 2007 . He yearned to run in the 100 metres but Mills was skeptical , believing that Bolt was better suited for middle distances . The coach cited the runner 's difficulty in smoothly starting out of the blocks , and poor habits such as looking back at opponents in sprints . Mills told Bolt that he could run the shorter distance if he broke the 200 m national record . In the Jamaican Championships , he ran 19 @.@ 75 s in the 200 m , breaking the 36 @-@ year @-@ old Jamaican record held by Don Quarrie by 0 @.@ 11 s . 
