Multiple world record-holder and six-time Olympic gold medal winner Usain Bolt will retire after the 2017 World Championships in London, the Jamaican said yesterday.

The 28-year had previously hinted the 2016 Rio Olympics would be his last competition but sponsorship commitments dictated he will continue until 2017 where he will focus solely on the 100 metres.

“That was the initial plan (to sign off after Rio),” he said.

“But my sponsor has asked me to go on for another year, to 2017 and London. But I’ll be doing one event, the 100. I’ve already discussed it with my coach. I can concentrate on that, and on retiring on a winning note.”

Bolt holds the world records for the 100m, 9.58 seconds, the 200m, 19.19 seconds, and the 4x100m relay, 36.84 seconds, and talked of his drive to beat those times in 2015.

His 2015 season culminates at the worlds in Beijing from August 22-30 where he will attempt to add to his eight world golds and beat the 100m record he set in Berlin in 2009.