10 years ago - on August 16, 2009 - Usain Bolt ran 9.58 for 100 meters

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  • rojo
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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 11:09am CDT
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    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/article/sports/20190816/berlin-was-crowning-moment-my-career-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/article/sports/20190816/958-not-joke-time-he-had-best-seat-house-now-daniel-bailey-relives-bolts
  • semi_pro
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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 11:15am CDT
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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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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 11:21am CDT
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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/article/sports/20190816/10-years-later-proud-my-legacy-bolt-looks-back-his-berlin-brilliance-wishes
  • TAA
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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 11:31am CDT
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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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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 2:21pm CDT
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    How long is the video?
  • v678
    9 months ago 08/16/2019 3:05pm CDT
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    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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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 3:07pm CDT
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    Impressive performance
  • Drug tester assistant
    9 months ago 08/16/2019 10:18pm CDT
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    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
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 12:47am CDT
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    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
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 1:41am CDT
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    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
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 2:47am CDT
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    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
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 5:15am CDT
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    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!
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 7:24am CDT
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    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
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 11:00am CDT
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    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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    9 months ago 08/19/2019 2:33pm CDT
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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/article/sports/20190816/berlin-was-crowning-moment-my-career-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/article/sports/20190816/958-not-joke-time-he-had-best-seat-house-now-daniel-bailey-relives-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
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 2:36pm CDT
    re: rojo
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    Which day did U. Bolt (Jamaica) pass the PED test?
  • This Letsrun.......
    9 months ago 08/19/2019 5:27pm CDT
    re: Ernest
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    Ernest wrote:

    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/article/sports/20190816/berlin-was-crowning-moment-my-career-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/article/sports/20190816/958-not-joke-time-he-had-best-seat-house-now-daniel-bailey-relives-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...


    Alt Right posters and Black nationalists will hijack this thread.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDLqbCjads