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Gay entered the competition with a season's best of 9.77 seconds (an American record) while Bolt's season's best was 9.79 seconds. Four other competitors had broken the 10-second barrier during the last months before the World Championship: former world record holder Asafa Powell , Olympic finalist Churandy Martina and emerging sprinters Daniel ...
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.
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.
[70] [71] However, Gay now faced a new, emerging challenger in Usain Bolt; at the latter event Bolt had beaten Gay with a world-record-setting 9.72 s. [72] Taking this into consideration, he realized that a world record time would be needed to beat both Bolt and Powell at the Olympics; Gay aimed to run below 9.70 s. [ 73 ]
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
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.)
The men's world record has been improved upon twelve times since electronic timing became mandatory in 1977. [17] The current men's world record of 9.58 s is held by Usain Bolt of Jamaica, set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships final in Berlin, Germany on 16 August 2009, breaking his own previous world record by 0.11 s. [18]
The men's 100 metres final at the 2008 Summer Olympics saw a world record and six men clear ten seconds (equalling the number from the 1991 World Championships). Only two months into the start of the outdoor track season, 2011 became a record-breaking year as fifteen men ran under ten seconds between April and June. [ 10 ]