Question About the Fastest City in the World.

[bluequiet]

I have an interesting question, what city in all the world has had the most 100m Dash Olympic gold medals come from it?

I ask this question partly because I have a vested interest in this. As far as I'm concerned Cleveland, Ohio is the fastest city in the history of the world. I say that based on the premise that it is the only city to have two separate (Jesse Owens and Harrison Dillard) 100m Dash gold medalists come from it.

Although Owens did move with his family to Cleveland early in his life, I submit that he is a Clevelander through and through.

Any thoughts? Is there other countries throughout the world or within the US that can make a similar or better claim as the fastest city in the world?

[SQUACKEE]

San Jose Cailfornia?

[Cooter Brown]

Kingston?

[lovetorun]

Houston...with Tom Tellez's athletes?

[bluequiet]

I was thinking people would come up with opinions and back them up with some facts.

To some extent, I should research where each 100m Dash olympic gold medalist has come from and see if there is any other city that can claim two seperate (or more) Olympic 100m Dash gold medalists.

I know Cleveland, Ohio has that (Owens and Dillard). Is there any other city who has that claim? Or is there a city that had multiple 100m Dash world record holders?

[lonewolf]

I believe Jesse Owens was from Alabama.

[bluequiet]

Yes, but he grew up and went to school in Cleveland when his family moved from the south to up North. I think his family moved to Cleveland when he was in the 9 years old age group. I'd say he was a Clevelander.

[lonewolf]

Kind of a different category but in the 70s Fort Worth, Texas styled itself as "Speed City". One year every kid in the City 100y finals had run 9.2 to 9.4.
Most went on to be D1 WRs, DBs and RBs.

[Triplej]

Linford Christie and Harold Abrahams were from London and both won Olympic Gold at 100m.

Edinburgh has one 100m Olympic gold medallist in Allan Wells and a 400m gold medallist in Eric Liddell although he spent a lot of time away from there when growing up. Both men won medals (Wells silver and Liddell bronze) at 200m in the Olympic Games.

[gh]

If you're allowing raised but not born there, there's another gold medal Clevelander to add to the mix. Born elsewhere, arrived at 3-4 months.

[bluequiet]

GH, I feel I should know who you speak of but I don't. You're talking runner, not pole vaulter, right?

[bluequiet]

It seems that Harold Abrahams was brought up close to London, but not really what I'd consider London. I guess to some extent we are talking about semantics in all this, but I would venture to say Abrahams was more from Bedford which is it's own seperate area.

Christie, however, was from London. Very similar in his migratory story to Jesse Owens and Cleveland. Interesting.

[Daisy]

It seems that Harold Abrahams was brought up close to London, but not really what I'd consider London.

Agree, it's not really London. Also he was at a boarding school, Repton, in Derbyshire, even further away from London.

Rather than focus on the 100m gold medalists, a small number of people, it might be more interesting to see a tally of all 100m and 200m medalists, both men and women.

[gh]

GH, I feel I should know who you speak of but I don't. You're talking runner, not pole vaulter, right?

I'm talking 100 meters, just like the thread started.

[bluequiet]

I'm at a loss. Please do fill me in, GH, I'm intrested to know.