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Running Times / Fastest 100m Sprint Timings over the Years
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Last Modified Jan 27, 2008 at 04:50 AM PST by MusclesViewed 3212 time(s)
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How much faster athletes have become over the last century? Well, I researched this and found that humans have gained about 8.83% in speed (using their performance in the 100m sprint as the benchmark.)
The timings (and speeds) of the world 100m sprint record holders is given in the table below
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| 01 | Asafa Powell (Jamaica) | 9.74 sec. | 36.96 kmph | Rieti, Italy (on Sept. 9, 2007) |  view
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| 02 | Asafa Powell (Jamaica) | 9.77 sec. | 36.85 kmph | Athens, Greece (on Jun 14, 2005) | Asafa has repeated his feat twice - on Jun 11, 2006 (at Gateshead, England) and on Aug 18, 2006 (at Zurich, Switzerland) | view
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| 02 | Justin Gatlin (USA) | 9.77 sec. | 36.85 kmph |
Doha, Qatar (on May 12, 2006) |
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| 03 | Maurice Greene (USA) | 9.79 sec. | 36.77 kmph |
Athens, Greece (on Jun 16, 1999) |
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| 04 | Donovan Bailey (Canada) | 9.84 sec. | 36.59 kmph |
Atlanta, Georgia, USA (on July 27, 1996) |
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| 05 | Leroy Burrell (USA) | 9.85 sec. | 36.55 kmph |
Lausanne, Switzerland (on Jul. 6, 1994) |
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| 06 | Carl Lewis (USA) | 9.86 sec. | 36.51 kmph |
Tokyo, Japan (on Aug. 25, 1991) |
Carl and Leroy Burrell have held the world 100m sprint record twice. | view
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| 07 | Leroy Burrell (USA) | 9.90 sec. | 36.36 kmph |
New York, New York, USA (on Jun 14, 1991) |
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| 08 | Carl Lewis (USA) | 9.92 sec. | 36.29 kmph |
Seoul, Korea (on Sep. 24, 1988) |
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| 09 | Calvin Smith (USA) | 9.93 sec. | 36.25 kmph |
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA (on Jul. 3, 1983) |
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