9.58 milliseconds What is the men's world record in the 100m? The men's record is, of course, held by Usain Bolt, who ran a remarkable 9.58 seconds in the 2009 World Championships. Tyson Gay and Yohan Blake both set the second-best time by a different athlete, 9.69 seconds. But if you exclude those two runners due an error on the part of the officials, then there have been four other times under 10 seconds: 10.03 by Tullio Campioni in 1930, 10.04 by John Henry Johnson in 1892, 10.05 by James Lattimer in 1868, and 10.06 by Arthur Jones in 1903.
The women's world record is 11.01 seconds, also set by Bolt in 2009. Veronica Campbell-Brown broke this record with her winning run at the 1995 World Championships. Since then it is only improved upon by Shericka Williams and Torrin Dickerson, who tied for first place at the 2012 Olympic Games with times of 10.98 seconds each.
The 100-meter dash was first staged during the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis. American Charles Townsend won that race with a time of 10.8 seconds. This time still stands as the best ever recorded for the distance.
The current men's world record is 9.58 seconds, achieved in 2009 by Jamaica's Usain Bolt, while the women's world mark of 10.49 seconds, established in 1988 by American Florence Griffith-Joyner, remains unbroken. 100 meters
| Athletics 100 metres | |
|---|---|
| World Championship records | |
| Men | Usain Bolt 9.58 (2009) |
| Women | Marion Jones 10.70 (1999) |
The current men's world record is 9.58 seconds, achieved in 2009 by Jamaica's Usain Bolt, while the women's world mark of 10.49 seconds, established in 1988 by American Florence Griffith-Joyner, remains unbroken.
Bolt's time is also the fastest ever recorded indoors or outdoors. The previous best was 9.72 seconds, set by Russia's Valeri Liukin in 2008. Before that, it had been nearly ten years since anyone had broken nine seconds - and almost twenty years since the last eight-second man.
There are three main categories in track and field: sprinting events involving running over distances of 20 meters or less; middle-distance events involving runs between 21 and 400 meters; and distance events over 401 meters or more. For each of these categories, there is a corresponding annual world championship event.
In addition to the world championships, there are two other major annual track and field meetings: the Olympic Games and the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. The Olympics are held every four years, while the World Championships take place every two years. Athletes can qualify for both the Olympics and the World Championships by performing well at global meets such as the IAAF Grand Prix and Golden League. These large-scale competitions are used to determine the teams who will compete at the Olympics and World Championships.
Bolt Usain The current men's world record is 9.58 seconds, achieved in 2009 by Jamaica's Usain Bolt, while the women's world mark of 10.49 seconds, established in 1988 by American Florence Griffith-Joyner, remains unbroken.
Bolt has also held the 100m world record since 2003, and his dominance can be seen from the fact that he has won every 100m gold medal available at the Olympics and World Championships since 2001. His final Olympic games will be in Rio de Janeiro this summer.
In 1969, a young American named Henry Rono finished second behind Bolt at the African Junior Championships. He was only 18 years old. Over 40 years later, Rono has become one of the most successful athletes in history, having won three medals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and four overall (one silver, three bronze).
Rono is still active in athletics today, at the age of 44. He currently coaches the boys' sprint team at Cal State East Bay.
Bolt's success has led to many other athletes trying to follow in his footsteps, but so far only one person has managed to break nine seconds: American Justin Gatlin in 2004. However, Gatlin was tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs after the competition and was banned for two years by US Athletics officials.
Its relevance has waned since the late 1990s, as a rising number of runners have broken the ten-second barrier. Usain Bolt holds the current men's world record with a 9.58 in the 2009 IAAF World Championships. Before this record was set, many athletes claimed to be able to run under ten seconds, but none of them could reproduce their time in multiple attempts.
In 2001, Carl Lewis broke his own record by almost half a second and in 2004 Justin Gatlin did the same. In the years following these records there have been other sprinters who have come close, but no one has been able to break either record yet. There have also been several high profile failures when individuals have tried to break the record. In 2007, 7 of the first 8 runners at the starting line of the Atlanta Olympics 100m final were within 0.02 seconds of each other, but only one actually reached the finish line first - Mutaz Essa Barshim from Ethiopia. The other 6 runners failed a preliminary qualification test designed to find out if they could run under 10 seconds. Among them were two-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson and 1999 world champion Andre Phillips. Neither man was able to break the threshold even after several attempts, showing that it is indeed difficult to run this speed consistently.
6.34 milliseconds Christian Coleman of the United States presently owns the men's world record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.34 seconds, while Russian Irina Privalova has the women's world record with a time of 6.92. The records were both set this past summer at a meeting in Chula Vista, California.
The 60-meter dash is part of the athletics program at the high school level and below. It is usually held as one of the first events of any track and field competition. In college, it is often considered the speed event of the indoor season because the distance is short enough to allow athletes to top 200 kilometers per hour (kph). Outdoors, the 100-meter dash is generally regarded as the speed event of the season.
There are two types of 60-meter dashes: One when someone starts from a standing position and one when they start from a crouch. In either case, the goal is to reach the end of the line before anyone else. The standing version takes off with only one foot in contact with the floor and was originally called the "American style" race because that's how Americans used to run it. The crouching variant was developed by Europeans and involves putting one foot in front of the other and bending your knees until you reach the starting line.
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