Frankie Fredericks
Only male sprinters have beaten the 100 m 10-second barrier, the vast majority of them being of West African descent and in particular, those descended from the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. Namibian (formerly South-West Africa) Frankie Fredericks became the first man of non-West African heritage to achieve the feat in 1991 and in 2003 Australia's Patrick Johnson (an Indigenous Australian with Irish heritage) became the first sub-10-second runner without an African background.