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The running stride of the famous sprinter is 2.47 meters wide, while that of his competitors is about 20-25 centimeters shorter.
Only 169 men have run 100 meters faster than 10 seconds in official athletics competitions in world history. Apart from Bolt, only two other sprinters have been able to complete the distance faster than 9.7 seconds – American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Johan Blake. The best time between these two men is 9.69 seconds, 0.11 seconds behind Bolt’s record, which is a lot in the 100-meter sprint.
For the first time in history, the 100-meter distance was run faster than 10 seconds in 1968, when the American Jim Hines (Jim Hines) reached the finish line in 9.95 seconds. He held the world record for 15 years. It’s been 14 years since Bolt set the world record, but there’s no sign of anyone beating him anytime soon. In 2022, the best result in the world was shown by the American Fred Curley, who covered the distance in 9.76 seconds, but no one else managed to run faster than 9.8 seconds.
“After the result of 9.58 seconds, I never said – never again. Everything is possible. My coach knows that there are no limits, because I never imagined that I would be so fast. When you are in good athletic shape and there is a lot of competition, you push yourself to push the limits. No, I don’t have a ‘magic number’ in mind. The 100 meters is not a record I have in mind right now. It’s the 200 meters because I want to run faster than 19 seconds,” Bolt said in 2014, three years before his retirement.
The most popular event in athletics is the 100-meter sprint, but Bolt was also incredibly fast in the 200-meter distance, in which he set a world record of 19.19 seconds in Berlin in 2009. He managed to beat the previous record holder Michael Johnson by 0.13 seconds. The US sprinter held the world record for 13 years. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Johnson ran the distance in 19.32 seconds, beating his own world record by 0.34 seconds.
