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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.
Jim Hines, Ronnie Ray Smith and Charles Greene were the first to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m, all on 20 June 1968, the Night of Speed. Hines also recorded the first legal electronically timed sub-10 second 100 m in winning the 100 metres at the 1968 Olympics. Bob Hayes ran a wind-assisted 9.91 seconds at the 1964 Olympics.
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.
Team USA's Noah Lyles, the defending world champion in the 100 m, won the Olympic gold medal in that race on Sunday night at Stade de France, becoming the first male sprinter from the United ...
British sprinter Louie Hinchliffe becomes first European to win men’s 100m title at NCAA Championships. ... The result makes him the sixth-fastest British man of all time over 100 meters, 0.12 ...
Colorado Springs, United States 60 m hurdles: 7.67 A: Tia Jones: Adidas: 16 February 2024 USA Championships: Albuquerque, United States [191] 400 m hurdles: 56.41 Sheena Tosta: February 12, 2011 Meeting National Val-de-Reuil, France [192] [193] [194] High jump: 2.02 m (6 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) A: Chaunté Lowe: Nike February 26, 2012 USA Championships
Australian teenage sprinting sensation Gout Gout recorded the fourth-fastest under-18 100m time in history on Friday, clocking in at 10.04 seconds at the All-Schools Athletics Championships in ...
A 100 m event for professionals only was held several weeks later. Four entrants are known and the winner was Edgar Bredin, a British former world record holder. [130] [131] A 100 m professionals handicap race is also believed to have been held in 1900. In 1904 a 100-yard dash handicap race was contested and an American, C. Hastedt, was the ...