What is the name of the world record holder in 100 m?
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Asafa Powell from Jamaica ran 100m in 9.77 in Athens, Greece June 14, 2005
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There is no official world record for 40 yards.\n\nThe shortest distance that the IAAF, track and field's international governing body, recognizes for world-record purposes is an indoor 50 meters, or about 54 yards. It is 5.56 seconds and it was set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. There is also a world record for 60 meters -- 6.39 seconds by American Maurice Greene in 1998.\n\nBut it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.\n\nTiming officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 -- both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.\n\nHe was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.\n\nAnd, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.\n\nFour-point-three-eight seconds.\n\nThen again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.\n\nMaybe half the NFL is faster.\n\no o o\n\nIt can be the most important few hours of a football player's career. It is the day NFL scouts come to campus to determine whether prospects have what it takes to play at the next level.\n\nPlayers are measured to the quarter-inch. They're weighed to the half-pound. They do a vertical jump and a standing broad jump. They see how many times they can bench-press 225 pounds. They do a 20-yard shuttle drill and something called a three-cone drill. They are put through a short workout specific to their position.\n\nBut it is something else that commands everyone's attention, something else that interrupts the businesslike atmosphere of players shuffling from one station to the next. Something else that causes scouts and spectators to snap to attention.\n\nThe 40-yard dash.\n\nIt is the day's shortest event, and the most critical. No other statistic carries more influence for an NFL prospect, no single number has more impact on his draft fortunes. It's not called Pro Scouting Day or Pro Prospect Day or Pro Workout Day. The sign taped to the weight-room door at San Diego State on March 19 says: "Pro Timing Day."\n\nOr as local football agent David Caravantes puts it: "There's football speed and there's 40 speed, and the scouts will all tell you they understand that and game film is the most important thing. But how many defensive backs who ran a 4.6 are left on the draft board ahead of guys who ran 4.3?\n\n"I'll give you another example. There's this DB who was originally projected as a first-rounder. But he didn't run the 40 that fast -- something like 4.6 instead of in the 4.4s -- and now they're talking about him slipping to the second round. Well, he's looking at a minimum $4 million signing bonus if he goes in the first round and only about $1.6 million if he goes in the middle of the second round.\n\n"You do the math."\n\nThe players are inside the SDSU weight room being measured and weighed. In the hallway outside are their agents, pacing. Nervously. Occasionally they'll walk outside, look up at the sky and stick out an upturned hand to feel the raindrops.\n\nThis is not good. The plan, according to t
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World Record holder of the 100 meter dash was estimated to be running at about 23 mph.
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The world record is: 3:43.13 by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco.  But for 12 yrs old 7min mile is  pretty good, better than most adults.  \n\nMy best time was when I was in high school, I ran a 5min 18sec. mile.
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actually, the best 1 mile time ever ran to date was by Hicham El Guerrouj from morocco, in Rome, Italy on july, 7 1999. In a time of 3:43.13
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Men\nAsafa Powell  JAM set a world record 9.77 in the men's 100 meters  11.06.2006 Gateshead Norwich Union British Grand Prix  \n\nWomen\nSherone SIMPSON    JAM\n10.87\n14.07.2006 Roma Golden Gala  ITA
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I've never seen a 100 meter track... the link above is of a 400 meter track.  The straight side is what is used for a 100 meter race.
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actually the current World Record, awaiting certification from the IAAF, is 59:16, by Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru. It was run at Rotterdam on September 11th of 2005.\n\nAn Eritrean, Zersenay Tadesse, ran 59:05, but the course he ran was not certifiable by the IAAF, and is therefore not considered an official world record.\n\nIn order to qualify as a world record, certain criteria must be met.  Firstly, the finish of the race must be within 30% of the race distance from the start.  This rules out point to point courses. Secondly, the race may not have an altitude drop of more than 1 metre per kilometre.  This is to prevent athletes from running times that may be aided by either wind or a downhill course.
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Marie-José Pérec\nTrack & Field. 400m.\nFrom France.\n\nCheck this out :\nhttp://perso.wanadoo.fr/herve.marous/perec.htm
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The world record is 445 feet 10 inches set by Glen Gorbous in 1957, a minor leaguer at the time.\n\nhttp://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long197.html
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well...it depends on how you define "the world's fastest man"\n\ntraditionally, that has been the world record holder of the 100m. that means the time is drug-free and not wind aided.\n\ncurrently, that is asafa powell at 9.77\n\nother runners have run fast times, but were either on drugs, or had tailwinds over the legal limit. for example, ben johnson's drug-aided time in the 1988 olympics was 9.79, an astounding time back then, and would not be officially set until 1999, by maurice greene.
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Popov has the record, around 21.6 seconds I believe\n\nfor future reference.. its:\n\nAlex Popov\nMichael Phelps\nIan Thorpe
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The 100m record has been broken in the Olympics a few times, but the current one was not.\n1932- Eddie Tolan and Ralph Metcalfe ran 10.38 tied for the world record.\nIn 1964, Bob Hayes ran 10.05 for the world record.\n1968- Jim Hines set 9.95, which stood for a long tmie\n1988- Carl Lewis ran 9.92 for the world record\n1996- Donovan Bailey came from behind and got 9.84\nSince then, the world record went to 9.79, 9.78, and 9.77- none of them were in the Olympics.
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Javier Sotomayor of Cuba holds the world record for the high jump.\nHe jumped 2.45 meters. In English units, that slightly under 8 ft 1/2 inch.
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Try the guinness book of world records site:\n\nhttp://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/default.aspx
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Jeff Thomson.\n\nJeff Thomson's all time fastest ball bowled in cricket history, 161.5 kph against the West Indies in 1975 in Australia.\n\nShoaib Akhtar became the first bowler after Thomson to break the 100 miles per hour barrier bowling against New Zealand, but he made it clear he was not specifically looking to break Thomson's record.
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Asafa Powell set a world record for the 100 metres on June 14th,2005 in the Athens stadium where he flopped in the Olympic Games 10 months before.\nThe Jamaican, who has been competing for less than five years, ran 9.77sec in the Tsiklitiria 2005 meeting to take one-hundredth of a second off the previous record with a performance that, in the end, was as predictable as it was spectacular.