What Would Bolt's Time in 100 Yards Be?

[bijanc]

How does 100 M mark convert in Yankee dollars? What would Bolt run the 100 yd.dash in on a good day (humor a '70's guy by allowing me to see how the firm of Crockett, McTear and Meriwether stack up against Lightning).

[Marlow]

100y is 8.56m short of 100m
Bolt was traveling at about .084mps in that last 10m, so the math sez

8.77 + .02

Hand-time could have easily been 8.5!

[bijanc]

Lightning Yards

Sick! Thanks.

[Avante]

Speaking of the 100 yard dash, if we took the guys who did run it....

All Time 100 Yard Dash (time wise)

lane

1.Charlie Greene...9.1/Nebraska
2.Harry Jerome...9.1/Oregon/Canada
3.Jimmy Hines...9.1/Texas Southern
4.Bob Hayes...9.1/Florida A&M
5.Ivory Crockett...9.0/So.Illinois
6.Houston McTear...9.0/Cerritos
7.Steve Williams...9.1/San Diego St
8.John Carlos....9.1/San Jose St

Willie McGee (Alcorn) did run a 9.1 but I don't see him running with those guys.

[Halfmiler2]

As for conversions, I know some of the football and baseball times are urban legend or sometimes timed from a running start, but what was Bolt's first 40 yards or fastest 40 yards during his WR? Ditto his first 90 feet or fastest 90 feet (=home plate to 1B)?

[Marlow]

As for conversions, I know some of the football and baseball times are urban legend or sometimes timed from a running start, but what was Bolt's first 40 yards or fastest 40 yards during his WR? Ditto his first 90 feet or fastest 90 feet (=home plate to 1B)?

Doing the math from this data

http://berlin.iaaf.org/mm/document/deve ... _13666.pdf

gives us [channeling eldrick] (with indoor best in red)

30y ~ 3.55
40y ~ 4.35 (ca. 3.9 in old football parlance; ca. 4.10 - 4.15 in Combine-speak)
50y ~ 5.12 (5.22)
60y ~ 5.87 (6.00)

[bijanc]

Bolt Graph

3.55 for 30? Make's Mantle's hand-times 3.1 appear suspect (90 feet).

[Marlow]

Re: Bolt Graph

3.55 for 30? Make's Mantle's hand-times 3.1 appear suspect (90 feet).

If he's batting leftie and dragging a bunt down the first-base line, that's his (hand) time after initial step. WInd-aided. Downhill. At altitude. With Yogi timing him.

[mrbowie]

"Marlow" you forgot to include with a stop watch that was bought in Tijuana, Mexico and banged around for at least 5 years in the desk drawer of a high school coach in Texas.