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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.
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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.
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 ...
(1) All of the individual events were scored with exponential functions, rather than the linear functions that had characterized all decathlon scoring tables to date. For field events , this was a straightforward statistical procedure; for track events, the reciprocal of the athlete's time, representing speed , was used as the independent variable.
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]
Gout, largely touted as the next Usain Bolt, clocked in at 10.04 seconds during the heats at the All-Schools Athletics Championships in Queensland. The sprint was the fourth-fastest time of a ...
World Athletics Final: Stuttgart, Germany [4] 200 m (straight) 20.64 (+0.2 m/s) Jaysuma Saidy Ndure: 20 May 2012 Great CityGames Manchester: Manchester, United Kingdom [5] 300 m: 32.49 Karsten Warholm: 18 September 2021 Trond Mohn Games Bergen, Norway [6] 400 m: 44.39 Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen: 20 August 2023 World Championships: Budapest ...