SUB TEN STAT
BREAKDOWN
Sub 9.95s
Greene: 32
Boldon: 16
Fredericks: 11
Sub 9.90s
Greene: 10
Boldon: 8
Fredericks: 3
Most consistent times:
Greene: 9.90/9.96 (7 times)
Boldon: 9.86 and 9.99 (4 times)
Fredericks: 9.95 (5 times)
Combined,
these 3 men ran
107 sub-10s!
Boldon and Greene have run 80 sub-10s between them, with Ato
running "sub ten" from '96 - '01 and Greene EVERY YEAR since '97,
until his streak ended in 2005.
53 athletes have now run under 10 seconds for 100m in history¹....
...but only 1 of them is of anything but African
descent - Pat Johnson of AUSTRALIA - and they are only from 14 countries
on the planet, 5 of which are in the Caribbean:
USA (22)
Nigeria (8)
Jamaica (3)
Trinidad (3)
UK (3)
Canada (2)
Ghana (2)
Australia (1)
Barbados (1)
Cayman Islands (1)
Cuba (1)
France (1)
Namibia (1)
St. Kitts/Nevis (1)
The Asian record is 10.00 by Koji Ito (JAPAN)
The Caucasian record is
10.00 by Marian Woronin (POLAND)
Announcing the newest sub-10 100m club
member......
#52: Marcus Brunson (USA)
9.99
August
18th, 2006
¹In accordance
with most track and field statisticians' lists, we do
not recognize Mark Lewis-Francis' (GBR) 'doubtful wind info'
sub-10 in 2001 at the World Championships.
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