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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 mark had been widely considered a barrier for the 100 metres in men's sprinting. The first man to break the 10 second barrier with automatic timing was Jim Hines at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since then, over 190 sprinters have run faster than 10 seconds. Similarly, 11 seconds is considered the standard for female athletes.
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 .
After coming in with the fourth-fastest time in the heats, Gout raced again on Friday, running the final in 10.17 — the sixth-fastest time for a sprinter under 18 years old — beating his ...
As of 2022, he is the first-ever Asian-born sprinter to break the 10-second barrier. [8] Su's personal best of 9.83 seconds makes him the all-time 10th-fastest man in the history of 100 metres at the Olympics, the all-time 15th-fastest man in the history of the 100m event, [9] and the current holder of the 100 m Asian record. [10]
In June 1979, just days after equalling her own 100 metres hurdles world record of 12.48 seconds, [11] Grażyna Rabsztyn ran the distance in 12.39 seconds in Bremen with a 2.8 m/s tail wind. [12] The next year Rabsztyn became the first woman to legally run under 12.40 when she improved the world record to 12.36 seconds. [ 11 ]
Rock My Run (stylized as RockMyRun; trademarked slogan: "The Best Running Music in the World™") is a mobile running/fitness app [2] founded in 2011 that provides running and workout music in the form of DJ mixes. [3] It is owned by Rock My World, Inc., [1] a health and fitness technology company based in San Diego, California.