Usain Bolt has one of the most appropriate names in sports. The world’s fastest human. Of course he should be named Bolt.

Then came an extraordinarily fluky moment at the Athletics World Championships in Moscow last night.

It began to rain as the 100-meter sprint finalists headed for the start line, and it was coming down pretty good when they finally got the gun. A summer thunderstorm passing over.

I mentioned aloud, while watching on TV, that maybe the rain would make at least slightly possible what otherwise would be highly unlikely — Bolt losing to a weak field.

He won fairly easily, though not close to a record — but was rewarded instead with one of the great sports photos in modern times.

A photographer for Agence France-Presse was at the meet, and he was holding a camera — but also had five more cameras set up along the 100-meter course. Remote-controlled.

When the photographer, Olivier Morin, sat down to look at what he had gotten from the cameras, the fifth and final one, located about 30 yards past the finish line, showed Bolt decelerating in the foreground with, up above the stadium — a bolt of lightning.

The shooter was the first to say it was mostly luck. He estimated that he had “1 percent” to do with the photo.

“In my 25 years as a photographer I’ve never had an uncontrollable external element make a photo like this,” Morin said, “and I imagine if I tried again for a similar result for the next 50 years, it wouldn’t happen again.”

The photo made the cover of this morning’s print edition of The National’s sports section. It was a break for us, too; the photo was available before our midnight deadline.

Kismet.