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The Olympic 100 m finals, particularly the men's, are among the most popular events from any sport at the Olympics – the 2012 Olympic men's 100 metres final was the most watched event at the London Games by British audiences (with 20 million television viewers) [134] while in the United States that event was the third-most viewed Olympic clip ...
The men's 100 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July and 1 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. [1] 84 athletes were expected to compete; 27 nations used universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 56 qualifying through standard time or ranking (23 universality places were used in 2016).
Official Olympic Video on YouTube Wyomia Tyus ( pronunciation : why-o-mi ; born August 29, 1945) is a retired American track and field sprinter , and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m (a feat since duplicated by Carl Lewis , Gail Devers , Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , Usain Bolt , and Elaine Thompson-Herah ).
USA's Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the men's 100m final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 4, 2024.
By the time Noah Lyles started the Olympic 100m final, he was already last.Lyles took 0.178 sec to react to the gun. That might sound quick but in a sport measured in thousandths of a second, he ...
Bolt set a new Olympic record (beating his own record set at the 2008 Olympic Games) of 9.64 seconds, later rounded down to 9.63 seconds. Blake edged past Gatlin, who in turn held off a closing Gay at the finish line. [11] [12] Usain Bolt was the second athlete after Carl Lewis (1984, 1988) to retain the men's 100m championship. His winning ...
Linford Christie OBE (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter and athletics coach. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
Omanyala won the national title in the 100 metres in 2019. On 30 March 2021, he set a national record of 10.01 seconds in the 100 m in winning a meeting at Yabatech Sport Complex in Lagos, Nigeria. [5] At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics 100 metres semi-final in August that year, he set a new national record of 10.00 seconds. [6]