Elaine Thompson-Herah had a phenomenal 2021, dominating the Olympics and running the second-fastest 100m of all time. In 2022, she is in pursuit of a first individual world title and a 34-year-old record. Elaine Thompson-Herah is the fastest woman alive.
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THE FASTEST RUNNERS IN THE WOMEN'S CATEGORY
- The 100m record was set by Florence Griffith in 1988 at the age of 28. She ran in 10.49 seconds, at a speed of 34.32 km/h.
It is none other than Rudolph Ingram, an eight-year-old from America, who goes by the name Blaze. Ingram's speed and skill have captured the attention of many. Dubbed 'the fastest kid in the world', Ingram may leave you in awe too.
She destroyed the previous record by 18 seconds, running the killer five-kilometre distance against adults twice her size, in 17 minutes and 41.03 seconds.
Dakota White first made headlines last year when TikTok videos of her smoking the competition on the track went viral. This past weekend, she and her teammates with Xpress Track Club in Fort Worth set a new record in the girls 8 and under 100-meter relay at the AAU Junior Olympics.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the fastest woman in the world. Again. Fraser-Pryce won the women's 100m on Sunday night at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in a championship record of 10.67 seconds.
Olympics news 2022: Erriyon Knighton fastest teenager in the world, 19.49 in 200 metres, faster than Usain Bolt, sprinter, athletics.
Athletics, Top 10 Women's 100m in history: Elaine Thompson-Herah second fastest ever.
Leaning up against a fence at the Doonside Little Athletics track in western Sydney, Sebastian Sultana admits he's still in a mild state of shock. It's been two weeks since the 17-year-old sprinter from Schofields ran 100 metres in 10.27 seconds and broke the Australian under 18s record by over a tenth of a second.
average speed (m/sec)
The maximum speed obtained by 10- 11yrs, 12-13yrs and 14-15yrs boys were 6.45m/sec, 6.77m/sec and 7.70 m/sec and average speed of all three group were 5.76m/sec, 6.01m/sec and 6.47m/sec respectively.
“Usually children are ready to start running longer distances—5 kilometer (5K) races, for example—between ages 8 and 10,” says Dr. Mark Halstead, a pediatric sports medicine specialist at Washington University in St. Louis.
The average nine year old runs a mile in ten and a half minutes, but can sprint for short distances at up to 15 miles per hour.
Ugandan runner Joshua Cheptegei smashed the 5K world record on Sunday at the Monaco Run 5K. His time of 12:51 bested the previous record by 27 seconds. Cheptegei set the (now broken) 10K world record in December and won the 10,000 meters on the track at the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
A 5 year old completing a mile in under 10 minutes may not be a race winning time but is still fast for someone so young. The same can be said for a 5 year old running 100 meters in under 35 seconds. How fast can a 6 year old run?
The current world record for 12-year-old boys is held by Australian Kobe Stewart with a time of 33:08. Stewart, continues to run similar times today, at age 15, as he did when he set the record in 2020.
Puffer ran a 15:47, beating the previous record of 16:11 by 24 seconds. “I've been running since first grade, when I was 7 or 8,” Holman, of Sonora, California, told Runner's World. “When I saw this record, I thought I might be able to go after it.”
12 year old Emer McKee, Willowfield Harriers (Blue and White stripes), ran 16.40 for 5km today (after falling) in Lisburn. This appears to be a WORLD RECORD for a 12 year old (unconfirmed).
The average 12 year old, without any training, should be able to run 9-15 mph.