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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.
August 3, 2021 Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [9] 3000 m steeplechase: 8:00.45 Evan Jager: Nike July 4, 2015 Meeting Areva: Saint-Denis, France [10] High jump: 2.40 m (7 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) Charles Austin: Unattached August 7, 1991 Weltklasse Zürich: Zürich, Switzerland Pole vault: 6.07 m KC Lightfoot: Puma: June 3, 2023 Music City Track Festival
Griffith-Joyner's next best legal performance of 10.61 from 1988, would have her third on the all-time list behind Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.60). [ 20 ] Some records have been marred by prohibited drug use – in particular, the scandal at the 1988 Summer Olympics when the winner, Canadian Ben Johnson was stripped of his ...
Jenny Barringer set collegiate records in six events representing the Colorado Buffaloes, though none of them still stand Elijah Hall posing with the clock after setting a collegiate record of 20.02 seconds in the indoor 200 m, a mark that also stands as the American record and the No. 2 performance of all time
The University of Houston sophomore recorded a lifetime best time of 9.95 seconds and became ... the sixth-fastest British man of all time over 100 meters, 0.12 seconds behind Zharnel Hughes ...
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
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 ...
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.