On 9 July 2010, Lemaitre officially became the first man purely of European descent to run 100 metres in under 10 seconds, with a time of 9.98 s at the 2010 French National Championships in the city of Valence.
Wells also recorded the fastest British 100/200 times in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 100 m in 1984. Wells remains the last white male athlete without African ancestry to win the 100 metres at the Olympics.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Christophe Lemaitre became the first white man to run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds when he clocked 9.98 on Friday, the French athletics federation said.
Usain Bolt, a Jamaican athlete born in 1986 in Montego Bay, is the fastest person in the world. Usain Bolt holds world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter Olympic sprints.
The current men's world record holder is Usain Bolt, who ran a 9.58 at the 2009 IAAF World Championship competition.
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Usain Bolt's incredible speed earned him the nickname “Lightning Bolt”. Today, he still holds the record for fastest 100m sprint, with 9.58 seconds.
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.
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At a 2010 meet, Lemaitre became the first white European or American to run 100 meters under 10 seconds. His 9.98 time was good, but far off Bolt's 9.58 world record.
Engineer calcs reported that the average human athlete sprinting speed was then calculated to be 18.23 mph (3:17.5 minutes per mile). Average male running speed: 19.52 mph (3:04.4 minutes per mile).
Interestingly, the slowest speeds — around 4.5 miles per hour, or about a 13-minute mile — were the least metabolically efficient, which Steudel attributes to the gait transition between walking and running. For example, she points out, both a very fast walk and a very slow run can feel physically awkward.
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a 100 meter dash in nine seconds flat is almost impossible. with two of America's top sprinters, ran on an absurd treadmill, and talked physiological limits with a biomechanist.
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.
A cheetah is 45 miles per hour faster than Usain Bolt. While the answer may not surprise you, Usain Bolt is no match for a cheetah in terms of speed and agility. However, with adequate training, Usain Bolt may have enough endurance to beat a cheetah in an endurance or long-distance competition.
At the record-winning event, Usain Bolt's average ground speed was 37.58km/h, whilst reaching a top speed of 44.72km/h in the 60-80m stretch – numbers fitting for the world's fastest man.
The first and more conservative estimate assumed that Bolt could have maintained runner-up Richard Thompson's acceleration during the end of the race. The second estimate assumed that Bolt could have maintained an acceleration 0.5 m/s2 faster than Thompson.
Kai, who still needs help tying his track shoes, finished in 15.93 seconds, and according to the International Age Group Records website, set a new world record for 5-year-olds. Athleticism runs in the Sapp family.