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The men's world record has been broken or equalled at the competition three times: by Carl Lewis in 1987 and 1991, and by Usain Bolt in 2009. [1] Ben Johnson beat Lewis in the 1987 final, but his win and record were subsequently rescinded after his admission to long-term steroid use . [ 2 ]
The first manual time of 9.9 seconds was recorded for Bob Hayes in the final of the 100 metres at the 1964 Olympics. Hayes' official time of 10.0 seconds was determined by rounding down the electronic time of 10.06 to the nearest tenth of a second, giving the appearance of a manual time.
All of these factors make track and "football 40" performances essentially impossible to compare. The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics.
The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.
4x100m dq2 The United States team of Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell and Tim Montgomery originally won the 2001 World Championship in a time of 37.96 seconds, but were disqualified after Montgomery admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal in 2005.
Australian teenage sprinting sensation Gout Gout recorded the fourth-fastest under-18 100m time in ... in at 20.60s in the 200m at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships – 0.01 seconds ...
10.16 (+1.9 m/s) Jahvid Best: 2 April 2016: San Diego [62] Czech Republic: 10.16 (+1.7 m/s) Zdeněk Stromšík: 18 July 2018: Tábor [63] 10.16 (+1.6 m/s) Jan Veleba: 26 July 2019: Brno [64] 10.16 (+1.0 m/s) Dominik Záleský: 14 August 2021: Zlín [65] Senegal: 10.16 (+0.5 m/s) Mamadou Fall Sarr: 28 June 2024 Saintes Ireland: 10.17 (+0.1 m/s ...
Gout Gout of Queensland wins his Boys' U18 100m heat in 10.04 seconds with a +3.4 tail-wind during the 2024 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championship at Queensland Sport and ...