Is Matthew Boling REALLY the fastest EVER H.S. 100 runner?

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Spearmon's lifetime legal best was 10.24 in college. Boling already has a legal 10.11.

Very interesting, it was probably hand timed though because it does not show up on any lists on alltime-athletics or trackandfieldnews.

There's room for argument. I'm going with this guy:

https://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/houston-mctear-obituary

https://www.si.com/olympics/houston-mctear-sprinter-records-olympics-nine-seconds

Back when the 100 WR was 9.6 a Cali HS kid named Frank Lombardi tied that 9.6 running 101 yards, a yard penalty for a false start, dead serious.

In the early 50's Alameda HS kid James Jackson's 9.4 led the USA, not talking just HS,

Texas HS kid Johnny Jones came in 6th in the 76 Olympic 100m.

As mentioned above Baker HS footballer (13 yards a carry) Houston McTear tied the 9.0 WR as just a junior.

Trendarvis Friday should still hold the HS record at 10.00, can't see how a windy time breaks the record/

Bolings 100m PR is 10.13. HS kids Derrick Florence old record 10.13 broken by the 10.08 by J-Mee Samuels.

A lot of HS kids were better in the long jump and the 200m. BUT.......can;t think of anyone with his combo of...

10.1

26 feet

20.5

sub 45.00 4x4 split

.....especially a white cat.

I do believe he will settle in as a 200m sprinter, most white sprinters do better there than the 100m.

The last white HS sprinter to get some attention was Casey Combest, I think he still holds some indoor record. He never lived up the hype however. Kinda mental.

Forest Beatty before him, he actually tied a 200m WR as a HS kid, became more 400m while at Cal.

Any 10.1 is great for a white USA sprinter, still no legal sub 10.00. John Teeters the fastest at 10.00.

Avocado's Number wrote:

There's room for argument. I'm going with this guy:

https://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/houston-mctear-obituaryhttps://www.si.com/olympics/houston-mctear-sprinter-records-olympics-nine-seconds

Exactly right.

Forget whether it was hand or electric, this was the guy. Auto timing was uncommon back then

As an aside, accutrack back then was started by hand. So while it showed a photo finish, it was still hand time

He has the fastest "all conditions" time, no one is saying he is the fastest ever. However you HHouse schmucks are going crazy in your attacks on the kid, especially your roundabout and often snide attacks.

Avocado's Number wrote:

https://www.si.com/olympics/houston-mctear-sprinter-records-olympics-nine-seconds

What an outstanding article and story. Thank you for sharing.

DoctorGrubHub wrote:

Avocado's Number wrote:

https://www.si.com/olympics/houston-mctear-sprinter-records-olympics-nine-seconds

What an outstanding article and story. Thank you for sharing.

:)

Boling won U-20's easily with a 10.15/+2.6. He is dominating his age cohort in any case. He is entering Noah Lyles territory, historically speaking, if he wins World U-20s in three weeks.

Weimar is repeating wrote:

He has the fastest "all conditions" time, no one is saying he is the fastest ever. However you HHouse schmucks are going crazy in your attacks on the kid, especially your roundabout and often snide attacks.

You need to read what the guy actually said in his post. He is saying that the Wallace Spearmon Sr. wind aided time of 9.95 is better than Boling's "fastest all conditions time" of a wind aided 9.98. We only have to question how legitimate that Spearmon Sr. mark is.

The hype behind this kid is incredible, but not not for the right reasons. I have just read that he was in contention for the ESPY award of the year ( along with Klay Thompson & Drew Brees) for what is essentially an illegal performance (his windy sub 10' 100m). I notice that he was born the very same year than ShaCarri Richardson who broke the 100m WJR a few weeks ago ?? Do people remember that Bromell ran 9"77, with the very same tailwind (+4.2m/s) at the very same age (a few weeks before turning 19) than Boling did his 9"98. He did it in a college meet leading three other guys into sub 10" territory, including the likes of John Teeters (who ran 9"91 that day). None of these guys ever repeated their performance, they were just lucky to have such a massive tailwind... The same goes for Boling because it allowed to reach a level of performance that he is not capable yet and get an insane amount of praise. He might one day and will deserve the hype, but definitely not now. He is 19 years old , his 10"13 legal PB ranks him US 19th all time in his age group, tied with a guy who did the same time ...33 years go.

YMMV wrote:

Boling won U-20's easily with a 10.15/+2.6. He is dominating his age cohort in any case. He is entering Noah Lyles territory, historically speaking, if he wins World U-20s in three weeks.

There are no World u20s this year, you must be confusing with the pan-ams u20s...

Whatley wrote:

Any 10.1 is great for a white USA sprinter, still no legal sub 10.00. John Teeters the fastest at 10.00.

This is what make Boling hype absolutely insane, is that he not only makes (more impressive) legal perfomances, in his events, from other athletes in his age cohort completely go under the radar in the mainstream press .

But he managed, to make, on letsrun, a forum where any performance from any caucasian sprinter heavily scrutinized completely ignored.

Devin Quinn ran 10"01 in the semi finals of the NCAA this year and managed to make into the finals from the skin of his teeth. His time was of course wind legal, he did not have the chance to have a +4 m/s behind his back to get noticed...

Such performance from an american sprinter would have yield 5 to 6 threads per minute before,

YMMV wrote:

World U-20s in three weeks.

?

Muhammad Zohri is the junior to get exited about if you're talking global level. Reigning world junior champion, younger than Boling, almost beat Gatling a few weeks ago, and a PB of 10.03. Can he take Bromell'so WJR of 9.97 before the season has finished ?

Tg101 wrote:

YMMV wrote:

World U-20s in three weeks.

?

Muhammad Zohri is the junior to get exited about if you're talking global level. Reigning world junior champion, younger than Boling, almost beat Gatling a few weeks ago, and a PB of 10.03. Can he take Bromell'so WJR of 9.97 before the season has finished ?

The short answer is yes.

But Boling's biggest challenge at Pan Am U20s will come out of Jamaica:

Oblique Seville, a year younger than Boling and has also run 10.13 this year (twice)

Of course Boling is the fastest ever — the fastest EVER IN HISTORY!! Says former WH spokesman Sean Spicer.

Matthew Boling has jacked up deltoids. That's all you got to know.

re: "AccuTrack"

That system used an auto finish, but a manual start, which is why when FinishLync came out, they refered to their system as fully automatic.