100 metres
Continental records
Updated 29 November 2018.

100 metres

Section Title: Continental records
Table Section Text: Updated 29 November 2018.

Area	Men	Women

Time (s)	Wind (m/s)	Athlete	Nation	Time (s)	Wind (m/s)	Athlete	Nation

Africa (records)	9.85	+1.7	Olusoji Fasuba	Nigeria	10.78	+1.6	Murielle Ahouré	Ivory Coast

Asia (records)	9.91	+1.8	Femi Ogunode	Qatar	10.79	0.0	Li Xuemei	China

+0.6

+0.2	Su Bingtian

+0.8

Europe (records)	9.86	+0.6	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.73	+2.0	Christine Arron	France

+1.3	Jimmy Vicaut

+1.8

North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	9.58 WR	+0.9	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	10.49 WR	0.0	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States

Oceania (records)	9.93	+1.8	Patrick Johnson	Australia	11.11	+1.9	Melissa Breen	Australia

South America (records)	10.00	+1.6	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.91	−0.2	Rosângela Santos	Brazil

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Jimmy Vicaut ran 100 metres in 9.86s.
Jimmy Vicaut ran 100 metres in 9.86s.

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final_sentence: Jimmy Vicaut ran 100 metres in 9.86s.
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