WM 2009 Berlin - World Record 100m - Usain Bolt - 9.58 HQ

Let´s hope he made it without doping.....

Bleibt zu hoffen das diese Leistung auf legalem Wege erzielt worden ist.......



Lightning Bolt Economist
The men's 100 metres record is smashed by the biggest margin in modern times
IT WAS another big occasion and yet another world record for a Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, on Sunday August 16th. At the athletics World Championships he broke the 100 metres sprint record again, taking his own time down to 9.58 seconds from 9.69 seconds, set a year ago at the Beijing Olympics. This is the most the record has fallen since electronic timing was first used in 1968. In the century or so since official records began a little more than a second has been shaved off the quickest time for the sprint, an improvement of 9%.

100-Meter-Weltrekorde
ZEIT	NAME	JAHR	ORT
10,60	Donald Lippincott/USA	1912	Stockholm
10,20	Jesse Owens/USA	1936	Chicago
10,00	Armin Hary/Deutschland	1960	Zürich
9,95	James Hines/USA	1968	Sacramento
9,92	Carl Lewis/USA	1988	Seoul
9,86	Carl Lewis/USA	1991	Tokio
9,84	Donovan Bailey/Kanada	1996	Atlanta
9,79	Maurice Greene/USA	1999	Athen
9,77	Asafa Powell/Jamaika	2005	Athen
9,74	Asafa Powell/Jamaika	2007	Rieti
9,72	Usain Bolt/Jamaika	2008	New York
9,69	Usain Bolt/Jamaika	2008	Peking
9,58	Usain Bolt/Jamaika	2009	Berlin

H/T Paul Kedrosky

"By the way, Bolt’s start in the final, while good, wasn’t his best at this year’s meet. Consider the following chart, which shows reaction times out of the blocks in the 100m final. Of the 8 sprinters, Bolt was third-slowest, making the outcome even more remarkable."

UPDATE:

Usain Bolt Lights Up Berlin for WR in 200m -- 19.19s(!)