Usain Bolt 10.03!

[gh]

First known 100 ever, I believe.... courtesy of Justin CLouder, the all-time 100/200/400 standings now

3817 Michael Johnson - 10.09/1182 - 19.32/1335 - 43.18/1300
3687 Mike Marsh - 9.93/1241 - 19.73/1270 - 45.08/1176
3679 Xavier Carter - 10.09/1182 - 19.63/1286 - 44.53/1211
3653 Obadele Thompson - 9.87/1263 - 19.97/1233 - 45.38/1157
3646 Frank Fredericks - 9.86/1267 - 19.68/1278 - 46.28/1101
3634 Usain Bolt - 10.03/1204 - 19.75/1267 - 45.28/1163

[gh]

Truly a bolt from the blue! :-)

[jammin]

Bolt destroys the field including Spearmon. Bolt will definitely make it on our 4 x 100m relay team now. Good run by Bolt for a guy who hasn't run an open 100m in years.



Men's 100 metres 1st Heat
Results
W: +0.70
1.
16
BOLT Usain
86
JAM
10.03
PB

2.
10
DIXON Leroy
83
USA
10.07
SB

3.
104
SPEARMON Wallace
84
USA
10.20


4.
14
ROSS Joshua
81
AUS
10.26


5.
17
OSOVNIKAR Matic
80
SLO
10.28


6.
23
GAVELAS Aris
78
GRE
10.41


7.
20
MBANDJOCK Martial
85
FRA
10.44


8.
12
DWIGHT Thomas
80
JAM
12.69

[tafnut]

The fact that Bolt can so handily beat Spearmon in the 100, but not the 200, bespeaks poorly for his training. Since Bolt has better PRs in the 1 AND 4 than Spearmon, what's that say about his 200 training (I don't know; I'm asking)?

[EPelle]

Wonder why gh didn:t see this elsewhere on the meet thread? He:s too busy looking at drugs stories when the rest of us are enjoying track meets.

[bad hammy]

Bolt will definitely make it on our 4 x 100m relay team now.

I thought you were from the US. :lol:

[Justin Clouder]

Good run by Bolt for a guy who hasn't run an open 100m in years.

That's a GREAT run, not just good! And when was his last open 100? Has he ever run one? Tilastopaya has his record back to 2001 (when he was 14 most of the season) and lists no 100s at all.

Straight in at #6 in the 1-2-4, 2 places ahead of Wallace Spearmon. Now, we need LaShawn Merritt to run a 100...his best is still the 10.47 he ran to win his HS state meet in 2004, just before his 18th birthday.

What leg should Bolt run on in the relay? 2nd seems the obvious one. Both the Jamaican and the Brit 4x1s are looking very strong...USA better get the selection and changes right! :-)

Justin

[skyin' brian]

The fact that Bolt can so handily beat Spearmon in the 100, but not the 200, bespeaks poorly for his training. Since Bolt has better PRs in the 1 AND 4 than Spearmon, what's that say about his 200 training (I don't know; I'm asking)?

maybe the real issue is Spearmon's 100m training :idea:

[jazzcyclist]

The fact that Bolt can so handily beat Spearmon in the 100, but not the 200, bespeaks poorly for his training. Since Bolt has better PRs in the 1 AND 4 than Spearmon, what's that say about his 200 training (I don't know; I'm asking)?

Spearmon has a better 400 PR: 45.22 vs 45.28. Maybe Bolt really is a 100/200 guy naturally. I assume that he's always been pegged as a 200/400 guy because of his size, but maybe the 100 suits him better than the 400.

[einnod23]

Bolt destroys the field including Spearmon. Bolt will definitely make it on our 4 x 100m relay team now. Good run by Bolt for a guy who hasn't run an open 100m in years.

.....and the stick pass to Asafa??????

[George P.]

The fact that Bolt can so handily beat Spearmon in the 100, but not the 200, bespeaks poorly for his training. Since Bolt has better PRs in the 1 AND 4 than Spearmon, what's that say about his 200 training (I don't know; I'm asking)?

Spearmon has a better 400 PR: 45.22 vs 45.28. Maybe Bolt really is a 100/200 guy naturally. I assume that he's always been pegged as a 200/400 guy because of his size, but maybe the 100 suits him better than the 400.

X. Carter has better times (or just as good) than both of these guys in all 3 dashes. But the predicted takeover of the sprint world by X-Man is on hold, perhaps indefinitely.

All three are still quite young. I think it will be at least another year before things starting shaking out and we can say with some assurance who's good at what, who's better than whom and by how much, etc.

[gh]

And Bolt still only 20 (21 in August).... suspect that puts him way up on the all-time list of dashers at such a young age.

[eldrick]

he'll have to move from tex's 200/400 list to the 100/200 one ( i don't think we can claim 45+ was the basis of 10.03 )

[eldrick]

interestingly, he atches deloach's 100/200 pbs

[jammin]

Bolt will definitely make it on our 4 x 100m relay team now.

I thought you were from the US. :lol:

I am. Just like Felix Sanchez