• semi_pro
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      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 11:15AM - in reply to rojo
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      • What were the full results? 2-4 weren't as far behind as I expected to see. Gay was surprisingly close.
    • rojo
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      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 11:21AM - in reply to semi_pro
      • rojo
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      • semi_pro wrote:

        What were the full results? 2-4 weren't as far behind as I expected to see. Gay was surprisingly close.

        Here are the results.

        Rank Name Nationality Time Notes React
        1 Usain Bolt  Jamaica (JAM) 9.58 WR 0.146
        2 Tyson Gay  United States (USA) 9.71 NR 0.144
        3 Asafa Powell  Jamaica (JAM) 9.84 SB 0.134
        4 Daniel Bailey  Antigua and Barbuda (ANT) 9.93 0.129
        5 Richard Thompson  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) 9.93 SB 0.119
        6 Dwain Chambers  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 10.00 SB 0.121
        7 Marc Burns  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) 10.00 SB 0.165
        8 Darvis Patton  United States (USA) 10.34 0.149

        Wind +.9 m/s (Ato Boldon incorrectly said it was a headwind)

        What people forget is how the race featured the 3 fastest men in history at the time. So of course it wasn't a cakewalk. I just found an article where Bolt talks about the race. He was extra motivated to win as some had pointed out that Tyson Gay wasn't in the Olympic final the year before.

        http://jamaica-gleaner.com/art...nce-wishes
    • TAA
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      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 11:31AM - in reply to rojo
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      • Tyson Gay ran at almost world record speed and got beat by over a tenth of a second. Insane
    • Markmiles
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      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 2:21PM - in reply to rojo
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      • How long is the video?
    • v678
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 3:05PM - in reply to TAA
      • v678
      • Yep. Bolt ran 9.69 in Beijing the year prior and everyone thought it was revolutionary. I was always proud of Gay's belief that he could still beat Bolt, and he ran 9.71 and got obliterated. Later in the year he ran 9.69 and equaled the previous WR, and was still .11 off the new one.

        I always admired Gay STILL believing he could break 9.6 as well. He really, truly thought he could get there.
    • Greg
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      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 3:07PM - in reply to rojo
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      • Impressive performance
    • Drug tester assistant
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/16/2019 10:18PM - in reply to rojo
      • Drug tester assistant
      • I saw the race trackside while volunteering as a drug testing chaperone. After the race I saw Tyson Gay shake his head in disbelief - it was just otherworldly from Bolt and Gay at his best wasn’t close.

        I also went on a run with Wejo and Wilson Kipketer that week. Fun times.
    • thats right
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 12:47AM - in reply to Drug tester assistant
      • thats right
      • Boots on the ground! 10 years ago

        Drug tester assistant wrote:

        I saw the race trackside while volunteering as a drug testing chaperone. After the race I saw Tyson Gay shake his head in disbelief - it was just otherworldly from Bolt and Gay at his best wasn’t close.

        I also went on a run with Wejo and Wilson Kipketer that week. Fun times.
    • longjack
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 1:41AM - in reply to rojo
      • longjack
      • 9.5 still looks really weird. but given that bolt had an injury setback, humans can run 9.4 without too much a stretch.

        and minus all the rounds and no accident you have the 18.8 200m

        same dude could have run 42.5 400m

        in the 800m if you ever got 5 141 guys lining up in monaco there is our 139

        and if you had half a dozen 202 marathoners, on the right race and breeze, and pacing you got sub 2

        this is where humans can go now.
    • slow your roll
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 2:47AM - in reply to longjack
      • slow your roll
      • longjack wrote:

        9.5 still looks really weird. but given that bolt had an injury setback, humans can run 9.4 without too much a stretch.

        and minus all the rounds and no accident you have the 18.8 200m

        same dude could have run 42.5 400m

        in the 800m if you ever got 5 141 guys lining up in monaco there is our 139

        and if you had half a dozen 202 marathoners, on the right race and breeze, and pacing you got sub 2

        this is where humans can go now.

        T&F went from guys doing what they could do for bookies in saloons in 18th & 19th Centuries, low mileage and workouts.

        1950's was the first time guys combined 100 miles per week, fartlek and track workouts.

        1960's, T&F became global as the former colonized had self-determination.

        Cross-training and science in 1980's.

        Very light weight shoes and fast tracks in the 00's.

        I just walked you through how the one mile went from 4:18 to 3:43 over the past 150 years or so and improvent on other listed events.

        Sub-1:40 800m may occur with faster shoes and tracks that return energy to runners. Only other way: a bunch of sub-45 second 400m runners move up to 800m. There is no way with current shoes and current tracks will a (46 to 48.5) second 400m runner break 1:40.
    • American coach
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 5:15AM - in reply to rojo
      • American coach
      • Funny how it's been 10 years and nobody has been even close to 9.58.

        UB was too big to fail... and he didn't .
    • Drugs, Drugs,Drugs!
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 7:24AM - in reply to v678
      • Drugs, Drugs,Drugs!
      • v678 wrote:

        Yep. Bolt ran 9.69 in Beijing the year prior and everyone thought it was revolutionary. I was always proud of Gay's belief that he could still beat Bolt, and he ran 9.71 and got obliterated. Later in the year he ran 9.69 and equaled the previous WR, and was still .11 off the new one.

        I always admired Gay STILL believing he could break 9.6 as well. He really, truly thought he could get there.

        Bolt looked like he had more than .11 in him when he started high stepping in the Olympic final with 15 meters to go in the race. That said who truly believes that his time is legitimate, It's Koch like.......
    • he got caught
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 11:00AM - in reply to v678
      • he got caught
      • v678 wrote:

        Yep. Bolt ran 9.69 in Beijing the year prior and everyone thought it was revolutionary. I was always proud of Gay's belief that he could still beat Bolt, and he ran 9.71 and got obliterated. Later in the year he ran 9.69 and equaled the previous WR, and was still .11 off the new one.

        I always admired Gay STILL believing he could break 9.6 as well. He really, truly thought he could get there.

        Lets not forget Gay got caught doping. He probably figured Bolt and others weren't doping like he was.
    • Ernest
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      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 2:33PM - in reply to rojo
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      • rojo wrote:

        Take a trip back down memory lane.

        Here is video from NBC

        https://youtu.be/jiQ-4TFeeO8

        and some BBC highlights:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PH0SV4j1Es

        Two guys closely associated with Bolt remember that special day in article in the Jamaican Gleaner today.

        Glen Mills talks about the highlight of his coaching career:

        http://jamaica-gleaner.com/art...reer-mills

        Daniel Bailey, Bolt's training partner and one of two men in the lane next to Bolt in Berlin 10 years ago, talks about the race here:

        http://jamaica-gleaner.com/art...ives-bolts

        In 10 years, nobody else has come within a 1/10s of this mark.

        If he could have incrementally shaved this record, he could have had fat pay days, but he was right to put it up in this peak.

        Bolt's fastest Season Best after this was 9.63 .

        How long until this thread sidetracks into genetic reasons for Jamaican sprint dominance...
    • BenJohnSon
      • RE: 10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters 8/19/2019 2:36PM - in reply to rojo
      • BenJohnSon
      • Which day did U. Bolt (Jamaica) pass the PED test?
    • This Letsrun.......