![]() Initial acceleration: the first 10 to 20 m.The 100-meter dash is generally analyzed in the following four phases: From a sports science perspective, there is yet room for improvement in step rate (number of steps per second), stride (step length), and power distribution. While the world record for the 100-meter dash is likely approaching a physical limit, the 9.4-second mark is said to be possible still. Speed is the product of step rate and stride However, with Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) setting a near-world record of 10.54 seconds in 2021, hopes are high for the next record-breaker. This best record has remained unbroken for over 30 years, with the world’s top athletes hovering around the 10.6-second range since. Since 1977 when Marlies Oelsner-Göhr (East Germany) first broke the 11-second barrier, Evelyn Ashford (USA) recorded 10.76 seconds in 1984, and Florence Griffith-Joyner achieved 10.49 seconds four years later in 1988. ![]() The progression of world records for women’s 100-meter dash is shown below (as of March 2022). The women’s 100-meter record of 10.49 seconds by Griffith-Joyner’s still stands The 9.60-second barrier had not been surpassed for more than a decade, signifying how outstanding Bolt’s record of 9.58 seconds is. The progression of world records for men’s 100-meter dash is shown below (as of March 2022). In 2009, Usain Bolt (Jamaica) set a remarkable world record of 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. Since then, world records have been set almost every few years. The adoption of all-weather tracks, the development of spiked shoes, and improved training methods incorporating sports science are said to have contributed significantly to record-breaking performance. The winning time at the first Athens Olympics (1896) was 12.0 seconds, which means it took about a century to shorten the 100-meter world record by approximately 2 seconds. The 10-second barrier, which had stood for a long time, was broken by Jim Hines (USA) in 1968 (9.95A, A for high altitude), and again in 1991 by Carl Lewis (USA), who achieved the 9.8-second mark. The first official record for the men’s 100-meter dash was 10.6 seconds, recorded at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics (during the preliminary round recorded manually with a stopwatch at the time). 100 meters is a track-and-field highlight event that decides the “Fastest Human”Īlong with the ultimate endurance-testing marathon, the 100-meter dash, or 100 meters, is considered a highlight event in track and field that determines the fastest human being.
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