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Men's 100 metres world record progression

List of world records for men's 100m sprint

Summary

List of world records for men's 100m sprint

IAAF-ratified world record progression for the men's 100 m. In 1977 the IAAF began requiring fully automatic timing, accounting for both the increase in measured times and the decrease in measurement uncertainty.

The first record in the 100 metres for men (athletics) was recognised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as World Athletics, in 1912.

, the IAAF had ratified 67 records in the event, not including rescinded records.

Unofficial progression before the IAAF

Time	Athlete	Nationality	Location of races	Date
10.8	Luther Cary	United States	Paris, France	July 4, 1891
Cecil Lee		Brussels, Belgium	September 25, 1892
Étienne De Ré		Brussels, Belgium	August 4, 1893
L. Atcherley		Frankfurt/Main, Germany	April 13, 1895
Harry Beaton		Rotterdam, Netherlands	August 28, 1895
Harald Anderson-Arbin		Helsingborg, Sweden	August 9, 1896
Isaac Westergren		Gävle, Sweden	September 11, 1898
	Gävle, Sweden	September 10, 1899
Frank Jarvis	United States	Paris, France	July 14, 1900
Walter Tewksbury	United States	Paris, France	July 14, 1900
Carl Ljung		Stockholm, Sweden	September 23, 1900
Walter Tewksbury	United States	Philadelphia, United States	October 6, 1900
André Passat		Bordeaux, France	June 14, 1903
Louis Kuhn		Bordeaux, France	June 14, 1903
Harald Grønfeldt		Aarhus, Denmark	July 5, 1903
Eric Frick		Jönköping, Sweden	August 9, 1903
10.6	Knut Lindberg		Gothenburg, Sweden	August 26, 1906
10.5	Emil Ketterer	German Empire	Karlsruhe, Germany	July 9, 1911
Richard Rau	German Empire	Braunschweig, Germany	August 13, 1911
Richard Rau	German Empire	Munich, Germany	May 12, 1912
Erwin Kern	German Empire	Munich, Germany	May 26, 1912

IAAF record progression

	Ratified but later rescinded

"Wind" in these tables refers to wind assistance, the velocity of the wind parallel to the runner - positive values are from the starting line towards the finish line, negative are from the finish line towards the starting line, 0 is no wind in either direction, and all values are measured in metres per second. Any wind perpendicular to the runners (from left to right, right to left, or up to down or down to up, although the conditions of the track generally preclude those wind directions) is ignored and not listed.

"Auto" refers to automatic timing, and for the purposes of these lists, indicates auto times which were either also taken for hand-timed records, or were rounded to the tenth or hundredth of a second (depending on the rounding rules then in effect) for the official record time.

Records 1912–1976

Time	Wind	Auto	Athlete	Nationality	Location of race	Date	Ref
10.6			Donald Lippincott	United States	Stockholm, Sweden	July 6, 1912
		Jackson Scholz	September 16, 1920
10.4			Charley Paddock	Redlands, USA	April 23, 1921
0.0		Eddie Tolan	Stockholm, Sweden	August 8, 1929
		Copenhagen, Denmark	August 25, 1929
10.3			Percy Williams	Canada	Toronto, Canada	August 9, 1930
0.4	10.38	Eddie Tolan	United States	Los Angeles, USA	August 1, 1932
		Ralph Metcalfe	Budapest, Hungary	August 12, 1933
		Eulace Peacock	Oslo, Norway	August 6, 1934
		Chris Berger		Amsterdam, Netherlands	August 26, 1934
		Ralph Metcalfe	United States	Osaka, Japan	September 15, 1934
2.0		Dairen, Japan	September 23, 1934
2.5		Takayoshi Yoshioka	Empire of Japan	Tokyo, Japan	June 15, 1935
10.2	1.2		Jesse Owens	United States	Chicago, USA	June 20, 1936
10.3	0.5		Lennart Strandberg		Malmö, Sweden	September 26, 1936	url=http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/Progression-of-IAAF-World-Records-2015/projet/IAAF-WRPB-2015.pdf	title=IAAF World Records Progression	edition=2015	author1=Hymans, Richard	author2=Matrahazi, Imre	publisher=International Association of Athletics Federations	access-date=October 20, 2015}}
10.2	−0.9		Harold Davis	United States	Compton, USA	June 6, 1941
0.7		Lloyd LaBeach		Fresno, USA	May 15, 1948
	10.35	Barney Ewell	United States	Evanston, United States	July 9, 1948
0.0		McDonald Bailey		Belgrade, Yugoslavia	August 25, 1951
1.1		Heinz Fütterer		Yokohama, Japan	October 31, 1954
0.9		Bobby Morrow	United States	Houston, USA	May 19, 1956
−1.0		Ira Murchison	Compton, USA	June 1, 1956
0.0		Bobby Morrow	Bakersfield, USA	June 22, 1956
−1.3		Ira Murchison	Los Angeles, USA	June 29, 1956
−0.4		Bobby Morrow
10.1	0.7		Willie Williams	Berlin, Germany	August 3, 1956
1.0		Ira Murchison	August 4, 1956
1.5		Leamon King	Ontario, USA	October 20, 1956
0.9		Santa Ana, USA	October 27, 1956
1.3		Ray Norton	San Jose, USA	April 18, 1959
10.0	0.9	10.25	Armin Hary		Zürich, Switzerland	June 21, 1960
1.8		Harry Jerome	Canada	Saskatoon, Canada	July 15, 1960
0.0		Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	Caracas, Venezuela	August 15, 1964
1.3	10.06	Bob Hayes		Tokyo, Japan	October 15, 1964
2.0	10.17	Jim Hines		Modesto, USA	May 27, 1967
1.8		Enrique Figuerola		Budapest, Hungary	June 17, 1967
0.0		Paul Nash	RSA	Krugersdorp, South Africa	April 2, 1968
1.1		Oliver Ford		Albuquerque, USA	May 31, 1968
2.0	10.20	Charles Greene	Sacramento, USA	June 20, 1968
2.0	10.28	Roger Bambuck
9.9	0.8	10.03	Jim Hines
0.8	10.14	Ronnie Ray Smith
0.9	10.10	Charles Greene
0.3	9.95	Jim Hines	Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968
0.0		Eddie Hart	Eugene, USA	July 1, 1972
0.0		Rey Robinson
1.3		Steve Williams	Los Angeles, USA	June 21, 1974
1.7		Silvio Leonard		Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	June 5, 1975
0.0		Steve Williams		Siena, Italy	July 16, 1975
−0.2		Berlin, Germany	August 22, 1975
0.7		Gainesville, USA	March 27, 1976
0.7		Harvey Glance	Columbia, USA	April 3, 1976
		Baton Rouge, USA	May 1, 1976
1.7		Don Quarrie		Modesto, USA	May 22, 1976

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. This method was unique to the Olympics of 1964 and 1968, and the officials at the track recorded Hayes' time as 9.9 seconds.

Records since 1977

Since 1975, the IAAF has accepted separate automatically electronically timed records for events up to 400 metres. Starting on January 1, 1977, the IAAF has required fully automatic timing to the hundredth of a second for these events.

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. 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.

The event is linked on some of the dates.

Time	Wind	Auto	Athlete	Nationality	Location of race	Date	World Championships record]]	Duration of record
10.06	1.3		Bob Hayes		Tokyo, Japan	October 15, 1964	title=Stat Corner: 100 WR Progression	journal=Track & Field News	volume=61	issue=7	page=55	date=July 2008}}	1964	10	15	1968	6	20}}"
10.03	0.8		Jim Hines	Sacramento, USA	June 20, 1968		1968	6	20	1968	10	13}}"
10.02	2.0		Charles Greene	Mexico City, Mexico	October 13, 1968		1968	10	13	1968	10	14}}"
9.95	0.3		Jim Hines		Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968	,	1968	10	14	1983	7	3}}"
9.93	1.4		Calvin Smith	Colorado Springs, USA	July 3, 1983		1983	7	3	1987	8	30}}"
9.83	1.0		Ben Johnson		Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987	Ben Johnson]]'s time of 9.79 on September 24, 1988 was disallowed and never ratified as a record as he tested positive for stanozolol after the race. Johnson subsequently admitted to steroid use between 1981 and 1988, and his world record of 9.83 set on August 30, 1987 was rescinded by the IAAF Council in September 1989.(Track and Field News, November 1989, vol. 42, #11, p. 37)	1987	8	30	1987	8	30}}"
9.93	1.0		Carl Lewis		Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987	Carl Lewis's times of 9.93 were deemed by the IAAF to have equalled the world record after Ben Johnson's 9.83 time was rescinded, but were never ratified as world records, and his time of 9.92 to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after Johnson was disqualified was recognized as the world record from January 1, 1990.	1987	8	30	1988	8	17}}"
1.1		Zürich, Switzerland	August 17, 1988		1988	8	17	1988	9	24}}"
9.79	1.1		Ben Johnson		Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988	Ben Johnson]]'s time of 9.79 on September 24, 1988 was disallowed and never ratified as a record as he tested positive for stanozolol after the race. Johnson subsequently admitted to steroid use between 1981 and 1988, and his world record of 9.83 set on August 30, 1987 was rescinded by the IAAF Council in September 1989.(Track and Field News, November 1989, vol. 42, #11, p. 37)	1988	9	24	1988	9	24}}"
9.92	1.1		Carl Lewis		Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988		1988	9	24	1991	6	14}}"
9.90	1.9		Leroy Burrell	New York, USA	June 14, 1991		1991	6	14	1991	8	25}}"
9.86	1.2		Carl Lewis	Tokyo, Japan	August 25, 1991		1991	8	25	1994	7	6}}"
9.85	1.2	9.848	Leroy Burrell	Lausanne, Switzerland	July 6, 1994		1994	7	6	1996	7	27}}"
9.84	0.7	9.835	Donovan Bailey		Atlanta, USA	July 27, 1996		1996	7	27	1999	6	16}}"
9.79	0.1		Maurice Greene		Athens, Greece	June 16, 1999		1999	6	16	2002	9	14}}"
9.78	2.0		Tim Montgomery	Paris, France	September 14, 2002	Tim Montgomery's time of 9.78 on September 14, 2002 was rescinded after a 2005 ruling on his involvement with BALCO scandal ordered his results from 2001-2005 struck from the records and ordered him to forfeit medals and prizes from that time. By that time, however, it had been surpassed by Asafa Powell.http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=101/newsid=32920.html	2002	9	14	2006	5	12}}"
9.77	1.6	9.768	Asafa Powell		Athens, Greece	June 14, 2005		2005	6	14	2006	5	12}}"
1.7	9.766	Justin Gatlin		Doha, Qatar	May 12, 2006	url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/sports/othersports/18track.html	title=Gatlin Must Share 100-Meter Record	newspaper=New York Times	author=Frank Litsky	date=May 18, 2006	access-date=2008-09-03}}Justin Gatlin was briefly credited with a new world record time of 9.76, but five days later the IAAF announced that the official timers, Tissot Timing, had discovered Gatlin's time of 9.766 had erroneously been rounded down to the nearest hundredth instead of rounded up. This time instead made Gatlin co-world record holder with Asafa Powell,http://www.iaaf.org/history/GP/season=2006/news/kind=101/newsid=34686.html but this was rescinded in 2007 after Gatlin failed a doping test.https://web.archive.org/web/20110726002443/http://www.usantidoping.org/files/active/resources/press_releases/PRESS%20RELEASE%20-%20Gatlin%20-%20January%201,%202008.pdf	2006	5	12	2006	6	11}}"
1.5	9.763	Asafa Powell		Gateshead, United Kingdom	June 11, 2006		2006	6	11	2006	8	18}}"
1.0	9.762	Zürich, Switzerland	August 18, 2006		2006	8	18	2007	9	9}}"
9.74	1.7	9.735	Rieti, Italy	September 9, 2007		title = IAAF World Championships: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Daegu 2011.	url = http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/06/10/33/61033_PDF_English.pdf	publisher = IAAF Media & Public Relations Department
9.72	1.7	9.715	Usain Bolt	New York, USA	May 31, 2008		2008	5	31	2008	8	16}}"
9.69	0.0	9.683	Beijing, China	August 16, 2008		2008	8	16	2009	8	16}}"
9.58	0.9	9.572	Berlin, Germany	August 16, 2009	CR	2009	8	16}}"

Low-altitude record progression 1968–1987

The IAAF considers marks set at high altitude as acceptable for record consideration. However, high altitude can significantly assist sprint performances. One estimate suggests times in the 200 m sprint can be assisted by between 0.09s and 0.14s with the maximum allowable tailing wind of 2.0 m/s, and gain 0.3s at altitudes over 2000m. For this reason, unofficial low-altitude record lists have been compiled.

After the IAAF started to recognise only electronic times in 1977, the then-current record and subsequent record were both set at altitude. It was not until 1987 that the world record was equalled or surpassed by a low-altitude performance. The following progression of low-altitude records therefore starts with Hines's low-altitude "record" when the IAAF started to recognise only electronic timing in 1977, and continues to Lewis's low-altitude performance that equalled the high-altitude world record in 1987. (Ben Johnson's 9.95 run in 1986 and 9.83 run in 1987 are omitted.)

Time	Athlete	Nationality	Location of race	Date
10.03	Jim Hines		Sacramento, USA	June 20, 1968
10.03	Silvio Leonard		Havana, Cuba	September 13, 1977
10.02	James Sanford		Westwood, USA	May 11, 1980
10.00	Carl Lewis	Dallas, USA	May 16, 1981
10.00	Modesto, USA	May 15, 1982
9.97	Modesto, USA	May 14, 1983
9.97	Calvin Smith	Zürich, Switzerland	August 24, 1983
9.96	Mel Lattany	Athens, USA	May 5, 1984
9.93	Carl Lewis	Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987

Notes

References

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