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Jim Hines' October 1968 Olympic gold medal run was the fastest recorded fully electronic 100 metre race up to that date, at 9.95 seconds. [2] Track and Field News has compiled an unofficial list of automatically timed records starting with the 1964 Olympics and Bob Hayes ' gold medal performance there.
Tyson Gay currently holds the national record for the 100 m. The following are the national records in track and field in the United States. Some of the records are maintained by USA Track & Field (USATF). Outdoor times for track races between 200 meters to 10,000 meters are set on 400-meter unbanked tracks.
American sprinter Noah Lyles won the gold in the 100 meters at the Paris Olympics in a photo finish, edging out Jamaican Kishane Thompson for gold and taking the title of the world's fastest man ...
Though he had won world titles at 200 meters in 2022 and 2023 and the world title at 100 last year to claim the unofficial title of “World’s Fastest Man,” he had spent the three years since ...
Team USA's Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the men's 100-m final at the Paris Olympics on August 4, 2024. Credit - Jewel Samad–AFP/Getty Images The world’s fastest man is still the world ...
In the 2020 Olympics, Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian ran 9.83 in his semi-final heat and became the first athlete without African heritage to reach the final since 1980 within the span of 40 years, setting an unofficial fastest 60 metres split record en route. 9.83 is also the second-fastest semi-final time and made him the fifth-fastest man in ...
Carmelita Jeter winning the 2011 women's 100 m world title. The 100 metres at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. It is the second most prestigious 100 m title after the 100 metres at the Olympics. The competition format typically has two or three qualifying rounds ...
Richardson ran her fastest 100-meter time at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in August. Her 10.65 was just off the 10.49-second world record U.S. star Florence Griffith-Joyner ...