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The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt , the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder.
Gay finished with a time of 9.71 s, 0.02 s off Bolt's 9.69 s world-record run in Beijing. [144] [145] Bolt addresses the press in the Mixed Zone at the 2009 IAAF World Championships. Although Gay withdrew from the second race of the competition, Bolt once again produced world record-breaking time in the 200 metres final.
In the men's 100 metres dash, Usain Bolt broke his own 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.58. [citation needed] The defending world champion, Tyson Gay finished second with a time of 9.71, a US national record. [35] Britain's Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon title with a world-leading points score of 6731. [36]
World record Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.58: Berlin, Germany: 16 August 2009 Championship record: World Leading Asafa Powell (JAM) 9.78: Lausanne, Switzerland: 30 June 2011 African Record Olusoji Fasuba (NGR) 9.85: Doha, Qatar: 12 May 2006 Asian Record Samuel Francis (QAT) 9.99: Amman, Jordan: 26 July 2007 North, Central American and Caribbean record ...
The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 16 August at the Beijing National Stadium. [ 1 ] 80 athletes from 64 nations competed. [ 2 ] Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress .
The following progression of low-altitude records therefore starts with Hines's low-altitude "record" when the IAAF started to recognise only electronic timing in 1977, and continues to Lewis's low-altitude performance that equalled the high-altitude world record in 1987. (Ben Johnson's 9.95 run in 1986 and 9.83 run in 1987 are omitted.)
Bolt improved upon his second 100 m world record of 9.69 with 9.58 seconds in 2009 – the biggest improvement since the start of electronic timing. He has twice broken the 200 metres world record , setting 19.30 in 2008 and 19.19 in 2009.
World record Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.58: Berlin, Germany: 16 August 2009 Championship record: World Leading Justin Gatlin (USA) 9.74: Doha, Qatar: 15 May 2015 African Record Olusoji Fasuba (NGR) 9.85: Doha, Qatar 12 May 2006 Asian Record Femi Ogunode (QAT) 9.91: Wuhan, China: 4 June 2015 North, Central American and Caribbean record Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.58