Anyone? I've looked on the IAAF world list, but obviously they don't list the racial group of the athletes. Does anyone know how many non-Black athletes have run under 10 seconds flat for the 100 meters?
Disclaimer: Yes, I realize race is a fluid concept, and it's oversimplifying to label someone as "black," "white," etc. But humor me on this-- I think most sprinters can be realistically classed as "black" or "non-black" as a matter of first approximation.
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I believe if your question is how many 'whites' or 'asians' have run sub-10, the answer is none. Koji Ito and a Pole have run 10.00
If your question is how many 'non-(100% black by appearance)s' have run sub-10, the answer is much higher than the 'black sprinter stereotype' would suggest. Several of the caribbean sprinters appear to have a high 'hispanic-component'.
let the flaming ensue.
If you stood me and Mo Greene side by side, most people would declare Greene to be black, but if you stood Greene and Nigerian born Francis Obikwelu side by side, then you would have to declare Greene white by the same logic and standards as above. Truth is about 7 or 8 of the 47 sub ten (legal) guys are black; the rest are mixed.
Agree with the previous poster regards Caribbeans, but there is also a percentage of British and Irish mixed in there. Wasn't Don Quarrie's granny or great granny Irish?
yea, no white guy has ever gone sub 10 ever and no white man will ever have the 100 meter world recored ever.
the only NON-BLACK who has broken 10.00 is Patrick Johnson of Australia, who is half white and half aboriginal.
Being black is more about complection. Lighter complectioned black people are not considered white, even when their skin is lighter than white people.
European All-Time 100m Lists
Men
100 m
9.87 0.3 1 Linford Christie GBR 60 Stuttgart 15-8-1993
9.87 2.0 2 Dwain Chambers GBR 78 Paris 14-9-2002
9.98 0.4 3rA Jason Gardener GBR 75 Lausanne 2-7-1999
10.00 2.0 1 Marian Woronin (white) POL 56 Warszawa 9-6-1984
10.01A 0.9 1 Pietro Mennea (white) ITA 52 Ciudad de México 4-9-1979
10.01 0.3 2 Francis Obikwelu POR 78 Bruxelles 30-8-2002
10.02 0.7 2 Daniel Sangouma FRA 65 Villeneuve d'Ascq 29-6-1990
10.03 1b1 Viktor Bryzgin (white) URS/UKR 62 Leningrad 7-6-1986
10.04 0.3 1 Darren Campbell GBR 73 Budapest 19-8-1998
10.04 0.4 3 Mark Lewis-Francis GBR 82 Paris 5-7-2002
10.06 1.9 1 Frank Emmelmann (white) GDR 61 Berlin 22-9-1985
10.07 0.0 1q3 Valeriy Borzov (white, sub 20 for 200m, 1972 Olympic Gold 100/200 URS/UKR 49 Munchen 31-8-1972
10.08 0.6 1 Geir Moen (white) NOR 69 Kristiansand 16-8-1996
10.08 0.7 1 Carlo Boccarini (white) ITA 76 Rieti 9-5-1998
10.08 1.0 1 Roland Németh (white) HUN 74 Budapest 9-6-1999
10.09 1.3 1 Antoine Richard FRA 60 Aix-les-Bains 9-8-1986
10.09 1.5 1 Max Morinière (white) FRA 64 Vénissieux 3-7-1987
10.09 0.3 1 Attila Kovacs (white) HUN 60 Miskolc 20-8-1987
10.09 1.7 1 Jason Livingston GBR 71 London 13-6-1992
10.09 1.2 1 Sergey Osovich (white) UKR 73 Kyiv 7-6-1996
Mennea went sub10 when he set the WR in the 200.
To the original poster - go to the IAAF statistics page, they have very deep all time lists. Go here for the 100m and scroll down to 10.00:
Silvio Leonard of Cuba broke 10, not sure if you would consider him black or not. Other than that, a few non-African descent ran 10 flat:
Marian Woronin (POL), Koji Ito (JPN), Mennea as another poster pointed out, but that was at altitude. Not sure if Pognon from France is direct African or not.
Some may recall the big buzz around Ito in the late 90s about breaking 10 flat. He was having a stellar season and kept closing in on that time but topped out at 10 flat. Think he was top 10 ranked in the end of the year.
Patrick Johnson, as you said, is half Aboriginal.
That makes him black in my book.
No 'white' man has broken 10s
That list is out of date
xbcha1 wrote:
Patrick Johnson, as you said, is half Aboriginal.
That makes him black in my book.
No 'white' man has broken 10s
gonna have to disagree with your book. "black" is synonymous with African descent, not Australian. I know that Aboriginals are also referred to as "black" in Australia but outside of that context, he is not considered a black man
The first people from Australia came from India.
Pognon, like many of France's top sprinters, is from Martinique.
your mom came from india. in bed.
Pietro Mennea ran 19.72 for 200m, so somewhere in there he broke 10.00 for 100m.
He's Italian. And Italians are descended from. . .
How is the list out of date? They have 2005 performances on there.
marijuologist wrote:
That list is out of date
Are you trying to refute Rick Reilly's piece in this week's Sports Illustrated?
The only reason there is not more white runners, under 10 is due to the fact that they don't think they can.
The OG champ in the 110 was not a black! It all really brakes down to the fact that there is talent out there that just needs to be TRAINED the right way. And not told that they cannot run under 10 do to some out dated info. I rember it was said that the Kenyan Runners would allways be at the top. Well someone forgot to tell the OG champ in the 2000 marthon. The top 400m runner is a white guy and that is all that needs to be said.
What happed, in a short span people other then blacks stoped having what it takes to be at the top?