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Wilma Rudolph's time of 11.3 in 1960 was an Olympic and world record time. Irena Szewińska's time of 11.1 seconds stood as the Olympic record for one day. In 2021, Elaine Thompson-Herah ran 10.61 s to break Florence Griffith Joyner's 1988 Olympic record of 10.62 s.
The men's 100 metres was an event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. The competition was held at the Olympic Stadium on 31 August and 1 September. Sixty-five competitors from 48 nations entered, but 61 competitors from 45 nations participated. [1] Nations were limited to three athletes each under rules set at the 1930 Olympic Congress.
This was the twenty-first time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. For the first time, the number of competitors topped 100. Algeria, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Hong Kong, the Maldives, Papua New Guinea, San Marino, Togo, Tonga, Vanuatu, South Yemen, and Zimbabwe appeared in the event for the first time.
Jim Hines' October 1968 Olympic gold medal run was the fastest recorded fully electronic 100 metre race up to that date, at 9.95 seconds. [2] Track and Field News has compiled an unofficial list of automatically timed records starting with the 1964 Olympics and Bob Hayes' gold medal performance there. Those marks are included in the progression.
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 ...
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
The Women's 100m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 64 competitors, with eight qualifying heats (64), four second-round races (32) and two semifinals (16), before the final (8) took off on Sunday September 25, 1988.
Armin Hary (German pronunciation: [ˈaʁmiːn ˈhaːʁi] ⓘ; (born 22 March 1937) is a retired German sprinter who won the 1960 Olympic 100 meters dash. He was the first non-American to win the event since Percy Williams of Canada took the gold medal in 1928, the only German to ever win the event in the history of the Olympics, the first man to run 100 meters in 10.0 seconds and the last ...