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  2. 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships - Wikipedia

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    Lewis's mark, which equalled the standing record at the time, was never officially ratified by the IAAF as a world record. The women's world record has not yet been beaten at the championships. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the most successful athlete of the event as the only person, male or female to win five titles, she also has the most medals ...

  3. Men's 100 metres world record progression - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of World Athletics Championships records - Wikipedia

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    The World Athletics Championships is a biennial event which began in 1983. Organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the World Championships are a competition comprising track and field athletics events available to male and female athletes from any of the IAAF's 213 member federations.

  5. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. World Athletics Championships - Wikipedia

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    The World Athletics ... A total of 36 world records have been set or ... when the US team set a time of 3:08.80. World records have become less common as the history ...

  7. 100 metres - Wikipedia

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    The men's world record has been improved upon twelve times since electronic timing became mandatory in 1977. [15] 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. [16]

  8. List of World Athletics Championships medalists (men) - Wikipedia

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    4x100m dq2 The United States team of Mickey Grimes, Bernard Williams, Dennis Mitchell and Tim Montgomery originally won the 2001 World Championship in a time of 37.96 seconds, but were disqualified after Montgomery admitted to drug use as a result of the BALCO scandal in 2005.

  9. 1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

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    These are the official results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.There were a total number of 77 participating athletes, with ten qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday 25 August 1991.