WORLD RECORD PROGRESSION 100 METRES MEN

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The first 'world record' in the '100 m for men' (athletics) was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912^[1].

Manual timing
Time	Athlete	Nat	Location of race	Date
10.6	Don Lippincott		Stockholm, Sweden	July 6, 1912
	Jackson Scholz			September 16, 1920
10.4	Charlie Paddock		Redlands, California, USA	April 23, 1921
	Eddie Tolan		Stockholm, Sweden	August 8, 1929
			Copenhagen, Denmark	August 25, 1929
10.3	Percy Williams		Toronto, Ontario, Canada	August 9, 1930
	Arthur Jonath		Bochum, Germany	July 5, 1932
	Eddie Tolan		Los Angeles, California, USA	August 1, 1932
	Ralph Metcalfe		Los Angeles, California, 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		Osaka, Japan	September 15, 1934
			Dairen, China	September 23, 1934
	Takanori Yoshioka		Tokyo, Japan	June 15, 1935
10.2	Jesse Owens		Chicago, Illinois, USA	June 20, 1936
	Harold Davis		Compton, California, USA	June 6, 1941
	Lloyd LaBeach		Fresno, California, USA	May 15, 1948
	Barney Ewell		Evanston, Illinois, USA	July 9, 1948
	Emmanuel McDonald Bailey		Belgrade, Yugoslavia	August 25, 1951
	Heinz Fütterer		Yokohama, Japan	October 31, 1954
	Bobby Joe Morrow		Houston, Texas, USA	May 19, 1956
	Ira Murchison		Compton, California, USA	June 1, 1956
	Bobby Joe Morrow		Bakersfield, California, USA	June 22, 1956
	Ira Murchison		Los Angeles, California, USA	June 29, 1956
	Bobby Joe Morrow
10.1	Willie Williams		Berlin, Germany	August 3, 1956
	Ira Murchison			August 4, 1956
	Leamon King		Ontario, California, USA	October 20, 1956
			Santa Ana, California, USA	October 27, 1956
	Ray Norton		San Jose, California, USA	April 18, 1959
10.0	Armin Hary		Zürich, Switzerland	June 21, 1960
	Harry Jerome		Saskatoon, Canada	July 15, 1960
	Horacio Esteves		Caracas, Venezuela	August 15, 1964
	Bob Hayes		Tokyo, Japan	October 15, 1964
	Jim Hines		Modesto, California, USA	May 27, 1967
	Enrique Figuerola		Budapest, Hungary	June 17, 1967
	Paul Nash		Krugersdorp, South Africa	April 2, 1968
	Oliver Ford		Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA	May 31, 1968
	Charles Greene		Sacramento, California, USA	June 20, 1968
	Roger Bambuck
9.9	Jim Hines
	Ronnie Ray Smith
	Charles Greene
	Steve Williams		Los Angeles, California, USA	June 21, 1972
	Eddie Hart		Eugene, Oregon, USA	July 1, 1972
	Reynaud Robinson
	Silvio Leonard		Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	June 5, 1975
	Steve Williams		Siena, Italy	July 16, 1975
			Berlin, Germany	August 22, 1975
			Gainesville, Florida, USA	March 27, 1976
	Harvey Glance		Columbia, South Carolina, USA	April 3, 1976
			Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA	May 1, 1976
	Don Quarrie		Modesto, California, USA	May 22, 1976
Electronic timing
Time	Athlete	Nat	Location of race	Date
9.95	Jim Hines		Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968
9.93	Calvin Smith		Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA	July 3, 1983
	Carl Lewis		Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987
			Zurich, Switzerland	August 17, 1988
9.83 [2]	Ben Johnson		Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987
9.79 2	Ben Johnson		Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988
9.92	Carl Lewis		Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988
9.90	Leroy Burrell		New York, New York, USA	June 14, 1991
9.86	Carl Lewis		Tokyo, Japan	August 25, 1991
9.85	Leroy Burrell		Lausanne, Switzerland	July 6, 1994
9.84	Donovan Bailey		Atlanta, Georgia, USA	July 27, 1996
9.79	Maurice Greene		Athens, Greece	June 16, 1999
9.78[3]	Tim Montgomery		Charléty, Paris, France	September 14, 2002
9.77	Asafa Powell		Athens, Greece	June 14, 2005
	Justin Gatlin		Doha, Qatar	May 12, 2006
	Asafa Powell[4]		Gateshead, England	June 11, 2006
	Asafa Powell		Zurich, Switzerland	August 18, 2006
9.74	Asafa Powell		Rieti, Italy	September 9, 2007

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Record discrepancies

See also

Notes

Record discrepancies

★ Jim Thorpe was rumored to have run the 100 m dash in 10.9 at the 1912 Olympics, but this has never been verified.

★ Ben Johnson's times of 9.83 on 30 August 1987 and 9.79 on 24 September 1988 were disallowed following disqualification for banned drug use. Johnson's 9.83 record was annulled by the IAAF Council in September of 1989. Earlier in 1989 Johnson had admitted under oath that he took banned drugs. His 9.79 time was never ratified for a record as he was disqualified shortly after setting it.

★ Tim Montgomery's time of 9.78 from 14 September 2002 was disallowed following disqualification for banned drug use. By the time the mark was disallowed, it had been surpassed by Asafa Powell.

★ Justin Gatlin was briefly credited with an outright world record time of 9.76 from 12 May 2006 until 17 May 2006. But the IAAF ratified the record as 9.77 as his time of 9.766 had erroneously been rounded down to the nearest hundredth instead of rounded up. This time made Gatlin co-world record holder with Asafa Powell. This record also is under review by the IAAF, due to Gatlin's positive steroid test.

See also

★ World Record progression 100 m women

★ Sprints

Notes

1. In 1896, at the inaugural Olympics in Athens, Greece, Tom Burke ran a twelve second hundred metres - the earliest 'record'. However, this was before the 1912 recognition of records.
2. Record rescinded after positive test during 1988 Olympics.
3. Ruling in 2005 on his involvement with BALCO scandal rescinded all records and medals from 2001 onwards.
4. Powell equals World 100m record – 9.77 – first quotesSunday 11 June 2006