Arkansas' Jordan Anthony Runs 9.75 (+2.1) 100m - Making Him One Of The 11 Fastest Humans In History

Sources on the ground are reporting Anthony has just transferred to LSU.

First off, 9.75 in any condition is f**king moving.

Two, I don't buy this wind gauge reading. Everyone who is standing around has their shirts very visibly flapping around. It feels like the wind is more than +2.1 m/s.

Guy in 2nd in 9.91 PBed by .17 and his SB was 10.15 so yes this seems highly suspect,

yeah im not sure if i buy that wind reading, im sure some of them peaked really well but for nearly the entire heat to go 10.0 is ehhhhhhhh

Damn~~~~~~~

I erased Vincent Henderson to add him to that Arkansas 4x1

Omar McLoud....Wallace Spearman...Tyson Gay...Jordan Anthony

Who goes for LSU

NM Blake....Terrence Laird....Xavier Carter....Richard Thompson

Good bye Xavier, come on back Vincent.

Sprint history is full FULL of guys running something way over their norm.

Hell, Roscoe Cook went from 9.6 to tying the 9.3 WR and I could go on and on and.............

All-time list

1) Bolt 9.58 +0.9
2) Gay 9.69 +2.0
2) Blake 9.69 -0.1
4) Powell 9.72 +0.2
5) Gatlin 9.74 +0.9
6) Coleman 9.76 +0.6
6) Bromell 9.76 +1.2
6) Kerley 9.76 +1.4
9) Omanyala 9.77 +1.2
9) Thompson 9.77 +0.9

Iowa's Kalen Walker ran 9.94 in heat 2 in the West Regional.

From what I can tell, he's now the second-fastest white guy of all time in the 100 behind only Christophe Lemaitre (9.92).

How many of those ran that time as a freshman in college?

A Big10er the fastest white American, that just seems wrong.

So who was the last white sprinter on a USA 4x1 Olympic team?

To be fair, he ran in 2023 at Kentucky, redshirted at Arkansas for outdoor in 2024, and is now in his third year of college (but a sophomore for outdoor eligibility). He turns 21 next month.

I guess a message would help, sheesh~~~

I think it's realistic to expect 9.73/19.75 before he leaves the NCAA.

If he did make it to the NFL he'd be the fastest ever, ah....time wise.

Some Arkansas athletes have been having pretty extreme improvements over the last couple of years.

My article on this is here (and pasted below)

Arkansas redshirt sophomore Jordan Anthony, 20, ran a windy 9.75 100m (+2.1 m/s wind) last night at the NCAA West First Round - the West regional for the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships - at Texas A&M. Running in the first heat of what is technically the NCAA quarterfinal, Anthony blitzed his nearest competition by 0.16. Had the wind been just 0.1 less, Anthony would be the 6th fastest man in human history as only runs with winds of 2.0 m/s or less are counted for record purposes.

It is the second fastest NCAA time ever run as way back in 1996, UTEP's Obadele Thompson ran 9.69 at altitude with a massive 5.7 m/s wind.

According to Jonas Muerika's 100m wind conversion calculator, Anthony's run is equivalent to a 9.85 with zero wind (and a 9.76 with a 2.0 wind).

In HS in Mississippi, Anthony ran 10.14 (+1.2), 20.35 (+2.0) and was the US-U20 200m champ (6th in the 100) in 2022.

In 2023, he started his NCAA career at Kentucky where he was the SEC and NCAA runner-up in the 60m (6.57 pb (not at altitude), 6.54 a). Outdoors, he opened at 10.16 but never ran faster and had a 200 sb of 20.91. He failed to get out of the heats of SECs.

Last year at Arkansas, Anthony was4th at SEC indoors and didn't make the final at NCAAs and recorded a best time of 6.59. He didn't run outdoors.

Arkansas is actually the third collegiate stop for Anthony. A two-sport athlete, Anthony also plays wide receiver in football. After a full freshman year at Kentucky, Anthony attended and played football at Texas A&M in the fall of 2023. But he never ran track for them.

In football at Kentucky in 2022, Anthony played in 2 games as a freshman but had no catches and reshirted. In 2023 at Texas A&M, he had 3 catches for 14 yards. In 2024 at Arkansas, he played in 12 games, starting 1 and 8 catches for 111 yards and a TD.

Results:

It was the way he did it OBVIOUSLY he can go faster and will,

If he does end up in the NFL he will be the fastest pro footballer time wise we have seen.

I have no problems at all predicting 9,72ish before he leaves the NCAA.

These guys who also run the 200m have an advantage over just 100m guys. A speed endurance thing.

I'll give him between 9.75-9.80 at best if Eugene has a 2.0. The wind will be much less in Eugene's stadium vs the open track this was ran on, where the wind readings can read legal but often the same reading in a stadium confers a lower advantage.

You're right though he did have more in the tank. I wish the wind had read +2.0, this would've been a monster mark on the official books.

can't ignore that football money. unfortunate. I don't think you can really be at your best in the NFL when trying to be fastest man in the world.