 Misfortune awaited Bolt at the next major event , the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki . Bolt felt that both his work ethic and athleticism had much improved since the 2004 Olympics , and he saw the World Championships as a way to live up to expectations , stating , " I really want to make up for what happened in Athens . Hopefully , everything will fall into place " . Bolt qualified with runs under 21 s , but he suffered an injury in the final , finishing in last place with a time of 26 @.@ 27 s . Injuries were preventing him from completing a full professional athletics season , and the eighteen @-@ year @-@ old Bolt still had not proven his mettle in the major world @-@ athletics competitions . However , his appearance made him the youngest ever person to appear in a 200 m world final . Bolt was involved in a car accident in November , and although he suffered only minor facial lacerations , his training schedule was further upset . His manager , Norman Peart , made Bolt 's training less intensive , and he had fully recuperated the following week . Bolt had continued to improve his performances , and he reached the world top @-@ 5 rankings in 2005 and 2006 . Peart and Mills stated their intentions to push Bolt to do longer sprinting distances with the aim of making the 400 m event his primary event by 2007 or 2008 . Bolt was less enthusiastic , and demanded that he feel comfortable in his sprinting . He suffered another hamstring injury in March 2006 , forcing him to withdraw from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne , and he did not return to track events until May . After his recovery , Bolt was given new training exercises to improve flexibility , and the plans to move him up to the 400 m event were put on hold . 
