100 meters

     

100 m (one hunred metres) is the shortest outdoor sprint race distance in athletics. The reigning 100 m Olympic champion is often named "the fastest man/woman in the world", even though the 200m has a faster average speed.

Trivia about 100 meters

  • Donovan Bailey is considered the fastest man on Earth for running this distance in 9.84 seconds
  • It's the shortest distance in the Summer Olympics track events
  • In 1896 Tom Burke set an Olympic record by going this distance in 12.0 seconds; in 2004, Justin Gatlin ran a 9.85
  • It's the shortest of the running events

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