What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?

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Re: What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?

I suspect that very few sub-4 milers could legitimately break 11.00 seconds without a rolling start. Ovett was definitely not a 10.5 guy, that's pure nonsense.

When this thread started my feeling was around 11.2, then some posters got me thinking maybe sub 11, now im back to no faster than 11 flat- Tomorrow? 9.9?

The idea that Ovett could run the 100 yard dash in 9.5 sounds insane to me!

Really funny prospective...
Honestly, I'm almost 100% sure Sebastian COE was a sub-11"00 athlete = more or less a 10"7
sprinter.

[no one]

Re: What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?

methinks meters and yards are getting mixed up - in some cases here

[ed gee]

Re: What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?

A relatively common occurrence around here.

methinks meters and yards are getting mixed up - in some cases here

[tandfman]

Re: What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?

The appendix in Simon Turnbull's biography of Ovett shows 11.5 as his fastest 100m performance.

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Re: What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?

Anyone with enough leg speed to run for the 4 x 400 national team and record several sub 46.0 splits, shouldn't have any trouble clocking a 21.6/7 200m from a stationary start. That would have been faster than the existing women's WR at the time. With a bit of practise using blocks, that should be sufficient to at least break 11.0 for a 100m stationary start. He ran an 11.3 "rolling" last 100 in an 800 race, so 10.7 - 10.9 seems very reasonable to me.

Mr Deanouk, as the question was "What's the fastest 100m time ever run by a sub-4 miler?", your comments are purely speculative. They are appreciated, but they don't answer the question raised.