Missing imageWorld-record-progression-100m-men.png World Record Progression 100 m Men (1912-2005) with a logarithmic regression estimating:
Time/100m = -0,4403 Ln(Year-1900) + 11,853
This means that, for example, in 2100 the world record could be 9.52 if the estimation holds
The first World record in the 100 m for men (athletics) was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.
Manual Timing
| Time
| Athlete
| Nat
| Location of race
| Date
|
| 10.6
| Don Lippincott
| USA
| Stockholm, Sweden
| July 6, 1912
|
| Jackson Scholz
| USA
| September 16, 1920
|
| 10.4
| Charlie Paddock
| USA
| Redlands, California, USA
| April 23, 1921
|
| Eddie Tolan
| USA
| Stockholm, Sweden
| August 8, 1929
|
| Copenhagen, Denmark
| August 25, 1929
|
| 10.3
| Percy Williams
| CAN
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| August 9, 1930
|
| Eddie Tolan
| USA
| Los Angeles, California, USA
| August 1, 1932
|
| Ralph Metcalfe
| USA
| Budapest, Hungary
| August 12, 1933
|
| Eulace Peacock
| USA
| Oslo, Norway
| August 6, 1934
|
| Chris Berger
| NED
| Amsterdam, Netherlands
| August 26, 1934
|
| Ralph Metcalfe
| USA
| Osaka, Japan
| September 15, 1934
|
| Dairen, China
| September 23, 1934
|
| Takanori Yoshioka
| JPN
| Tokyo, Japan
| June 15, 1935
|
| 10.2
| Jesse Owens
| USA
| Chicago, Illinois, USA
| June 20, 1936
|
| Harold Davis
| USA
| Compton, California, USA
| June 6, 1941
|
| Lloyd LaBeach
| PAN
| Fresno, California, USA
| May 15, 1948
|
| Barney Ewell
| USA
| Evanston, Illinois, USA
| July 9, 1948
|
| Emmanuel McDonald Bailey
| GBR
| Belgrade, Yugoslavia
| August 25, 1951
|
| Heinz Fütterer
| FRG
| Yokohama, Japan
| October 31, 1954
|
| Bobby Joe Morrow
| USA
| Houston, Texas, USA
| May 19, 1956
|
| Ira Murchison
| USA
| Compton, California, USA
| June 1, 1956
|
| Bobby Joe Morrow
| USA
| Bakersfield, California, USA
| June 22, 1956
|
| Ira Murchison
| USA
| Los Angeles, California, USA
| June 29, 1956
|
| Bobby Joe Morrow
| USA
|
| 10.1
| Willie Williams
| USA
| Berlin, Germany
| August 3, 1956
|
| Ira Murchison
| USA
| August 4, 1956
|
| Leamon King
| USA
| Ontario, California, USA
| October 20, 1956
|
| Santa Ana, California, USA
| October 27, 1956
|
| Ray Norton
| USA
| San Jose, California, USA
| April 18, 1959
|
| 10.0
| Armin Hary
| FRG
| Zürich, Switzerland
| June 21, 1960
|
| Harry Jerome
| CAN
| Saskatoon, Canada
| July 15, 1960
|
| Horacio Esteves
| VEN
| Caracas, Venezuela
| August 15, 1964
|
| Bob Hayes
| USA
| Tokyo, Japan
| October 15, 1964
|
| Jim Hines
| USA
| Modesto, California, USA
| May 27, 1967
|
| Enrique Figuerola
| CUB
| Budapest, Hungary
| June 17, 1967
|
| Paul Nash
| RSA
| Krugersdorp, South Africa
| April 2, 1968
|
| Oliver Ford
| USA
| Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
| May 31, 1968
|
| Charles Greene
| USA
| Sacramento, California, USA
| June 20, 1968
|
| Roger Bambuck
| FRA
|
| 9.9
| Jim Hines
| USA
|
| Ronnie Ray Smith
| USA
|
| Charles Greene
| USA
|
| Eddie Hart
| USA
| Eugene, Oregon, USA
| July 1, 1972
|
| Reynaud Robinson
| USA
|
| Steve Williams
| USA
| Los Angeles, California, USA
| June 21, 1972
|
| Silvio Leonard
| CUB
| Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
| June 5, 1975
|
| Steve Williams
| USA
| Siena, Italy
| July 16, 1975
|
| Berlin, Germany
| August 22, 1975
|
| Gainesville, Florida, USA
| March 27, 1976
|
| Harvey Glance
| USA
| Columbia, South Carolina, USA
| April 3, 1976
|
| Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
| May 1, 1976
|
| Don Quarrie
| JAM
| Modesto, California, USA
| May 22, 1976
|
Electronic Timing
| Time
| Athlete
| Nat
| Location of race
| Date
|
| 9.95
| Jim Hines
| USA
| Mexico City, Mexico
| October 14, 1968
|
| 9.93
| Calvin Smith
| USA
| Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
| July 3, 1983
|
| Carl Lewis
| USA
| Rome, Italy
| August 30, 1987
|
| 9.92
| Seoul, South Korea
| September 24, 1988
|
| 9.90
| Leroy Burrell
| USA
| New York, New York, USA
| June 14, 1991
|
| 9.86
| Carl Lewis
| USA
| Tokyo, Japan
| August 25, 1991
|
| 9.85
| Leroy Burrell
| USA
| Lausanne, Switzerland
| July 6, 1994
|
| 9.84
| Donovan Bailey
| CAN
| Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| July 29, 1996
|
| 9.79
| Maurice Greene
| USA
| Athens, Greece
| June 16, 1999
|
| 9.78
| Tim Montgomery
| USA
| Paris, France
| September 14, 2002
|
| 9.77
| Asafa Powell
| JAM
| Athens, Greece
| June 14, 2005
|
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.
See also
it:Progressione del record del mondo dei 100 m maschili
