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Athletics – 100m	Olympic Stadium

OLYMPIC RECORD AND GOLD MEDAL TIMES
Olympic record 
World record

Athens 1896
T. Burke (USA) 12.0

Paris 1900
F. Jarvis (USA) 11.0

London 1908
R. Walker (RSA) 10.8

Paris 1924
H. Abrahams (GBR) 10.6

Los Angeles 1932 
E. Tolan (USA) 10.3

Rome 1960
A. Hary (EUA) 10.2

Tokyo 1964
B. Hayes (USA) 10.0 

Mexico City 1968 
J. Hines (USA) 9.9*

Seoul 1988 
C. Lewis (USA) 9.92

Atlanta 1996 
D. Bailey (CAN) 9.84

Beijing 2008
U. Bolt (JAM) 9.69

9.58 (2009)

London 2012
U. Bolt (JAM) 9.63


Amsterdam 1928
E. Robinson (USA) 12.2

Los Angeles 1932
S. Walasiewicz (POL) 11.9

Berlin 1936
H. Stephens (USA) 11.5

Rome 1960
W. Rudolph (USA) 11.0

Los Angeles 1984
E. Ashford (USA) 10.97

Seoul 1988
F. Griffith Joyner (USA) 10.54

10.49 (1988)


*Later corrected to 9.95


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1896 1904 12 20 28 1948 56 64 1972 80 88 96 2004 12 

WWI WWII Hundredth per second timing


Florence Griffith Joyner (USA), Olympic and world record holder


Sources: IOC, IAAF 
Picture: Getty Images  
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