Usain Bolt's 9.58 100m World Record is 15 Year Old Today - And no one is even close to it

spotted the ignorant fool wrote:

Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:

I don't use this phrase lightly - that's an absolutely r-tarded take.

There is absolutely no reason at all to use that phrase at all. We are in 2024, do you understand what the f**k I'm saying to you? Disgusting.

LongTimer wrote:

Someone tell me if I'm wrong about this for the basic best:

Bolt: 9.62 (Berlin 2009)

Blake: 9.70 (Lausanne 2012)

Powell: 9.74 (Lausanne 2008)
Gay: 9.75 (Berlin 2009)

Gatlin: 9.75 (Monaco 2015)

Coleman: 9.77 (Brussels 2018)

Greene: 9.79 (Athens 1999)

Are there any more basic 9.80s?

I'm not hung up on basic as the "real" mark or whatever, it's just the easiest way to compare. If this is correct, no one is within 0.18 of Bolt's basic best from 15 years ago besides Coleman. Coleman and Yohan are the only active sprinters to have gone below 9.80 basic.

ThreadMurder wrote:

LongTimer wrote:

Someone tell me if I'm wrong about this for the basic best:

Bolt: 9.62 (Berlin 2009)

Blake: 9.70 (Lausanne 2012)

Powell: 9.74 (Lausanne 2008)
Gay: 9.75 (Berlin 2009)

Gatlin: 9.75 (Monaco 2015)

Coleman: 9.77 (Brussels 2018)

Greene: 9.79 (Athens 1999)

Are there any more basic 9.80s?

I'm not hung up on basic as the "real" mark or whatever, it's just the easiest way to compare. If this is correct, no one is within 0.18 of Bolt's basic best from 15 years ago besides Coleman. Coleman and Yohan are the only active sprinters to have gone below 9.80 basic.

Apparently Kerleys 9.79 in the 1st round of Worlds in 2022 converts to stay at 9.79 in the calculator.

I must admit I forgot Powells Lusanne 9.72 converts so well. Technically that relegates Gay to third on the basic list...but I still say his full resume makes him #2. As far as the sun 9.80, Kerley may be the only one you missed.