justin gatlin holds the men's 100m sprint world record.
justin gatlin holds the men's 100m sprint world record.
who holds the men's 100m sprint world record?
justin gatlin
jamaica is one of the leading countries in sprinting with the current world record holder for 100m and 200m, usain bolt and the former 100m world record holder, asafa powell, both originating from the island, as does yohan blake, silver medalist at the 2012 london olympics in the 100m and 200m. also, a team of four jamaicans, bolt included (powell being absent in daegu 2011 due to injury), won the gold and broke the world record in the 2008 beijing olympics and the 2011 iaaf world athletics championships, their new personal best is 37.04, from 37.10 in 2008. they broke the record for a third time at the 2012 london olympics in a time of 36.84, is the only country to run sub-37 seconds. in addition, the country has a very strong high school athletics program throughout the schools which sees top high schools compete each year in the inter-secondary schools boys' and girls' championships. the 2010 winners of the event were wolmer's boys' school and holmwood technical high school (girls). the ability of jamaicans to dominate the sprint is only further enhanced and highlighted by the supremacy of usain bolt, who earned his olympic 'triple-double' (retaining his 100m and 200m titles from the 2008 beijing olympics at the 2012 london olympics and 2016 rio de janeiro olympics).
sport in jamaica
a month later cox was selected for the great britain athletics team to compete at the 2015 ipc athletics world championships in doha, where she entered the t37 100m and 200m sprints. in the heats leading up to the final of the 100m sprint, cox posted a time of 13.59s to beat the world record set by france's mandy francois-elie. later that day she ran in the 100m t37 final, taking the gold medal in a time of 13:60, beating team mate georgina hermitage into second place. her final event of the championship, the t37 200m sprint, ended in controversy after she missed registration by a minute and was disqualified from the race. in june 2016, after securing a place at the 2016 summer paralympics as a t37 athlete, cox was reclassified as a t38 category athlete, a classification for less-disabled athletes. this threw her hopes to race at rio into jeopardy as britain already fielded two other athletes, sophie hahn and olivia breen, who had posted faster times as t38 sprinters. despite the classification change, cox was selected for the rio paralympics in july 2016. at the games she took a gold in the t38 400m, a silver in the t35-38 4x100m relay and a bronze in the t38 100m. she also set a new world record of 1:00.71 to take the gold medal in the t38 400m. cox was subsequently selected as the flag-bearer for the british team at the closing ceremony.
kadeena cox