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8 Trayvon Bromell had broken the 10-second barrier a total of three times (9.99w, 9.77w, 9.92w) prior to recording 9.97, but all were wind-aided. 9 Prior to recording his first legal sub-10 run, Andre De Grasse ran a wind-aided 9.87 on 18 April 2015. 10 Jak Ali Harvey was born in Jamaica. 11 Ramil Guliyev was born in Azerbaijan.
The 10-second barrier has historically been a barometer of fast men's performances, while the best female sprinters take eleven seconds or less to complete the race. The men's world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt in 2009, while the women's world record is 10.49 seconds, set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.
Azu become the first Welsh 100m runner to break the 10-second barrier in wind-legal conditions clocking 9.97 at the True Athletes Classics in Leverkusen, Germany, on 25 May 2024. [ 2 ] After winning the silver medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships , Azu was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the 2024 Summer Olympics ...
James Ray Hines (September 10, 1946 – June 3, 2023) was an American track and field athlete and National Football League (NFL) player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters , and won individual and relay gold at the Mexico City Olympics .
Armin Hary (German pronunciation: [ˈaʁmiːn ˈhaːʁi] ⓘ; (born 22 March 1937) is a retired German sprinter who won the 1960 Olympic 100 meters dash. He was the first non-American to win the event since Percy Williams of Canada took the gold medal in 1928, the only German to ever win the event in the history of the Olympics, the first man to run 100 meters in 10.0 seconds and the last ...
Richard "Torpedo" Thompson (born 7 June 1985) [3] is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres.His personal best of 9.82 seconds, set in June 2014, was one of the top ten fastest of all time, and a national record.
Fred Kerley of the U.S. earned a bronze medal by running a season-best 9.81 seconds. The eight men who ran the final finished within 12 one-hundredths of a second of each other.
In April 2023, he won silver in the 100 metres at the 2023 African Athletics U18 Championships in Ndola, running 10.48 seconds in the final, having run 10.46 in the heats. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In March 2024, he lowered his personal best for the 100 metres to 10.35 seconds in Johannesburg and in the process set a new Mozambique national record .