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 Athletics – 100m
  
Stade de France
Event Medal

FORMAT
Preliminaries plus heats, semi-final and final
    
ORIGINS
Thomas Burke (USA) is first Olympic champion in 1896. Betty Robinson (USA) takes inaugural women’s 100m in 1928

LEGACY
Multiple medallists are rare – Usain Bolt is sole three-time champion, Carl Lewis won two, while Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has two golds, one silver and one bronze

2020 GOLD
Marcell Jacobs (ITA), and Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM), who retained 2016 title

Usain Bolt JAM
2008, 2012, 2016

Carl Lewis USA
1984, 1988

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM
2008, 2012
 
Olympic record
Usain Bolt (JAM) London 2012 9.63
Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) Tokyo 2020 10.61
 
World record
Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin 2009 9.58
Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) Indianapolis 1988 10.49

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