Talk:100 metres

message: I note that the 200 metres wiki entry contains a list of Olympic & World champions for both men and women. Would it not be better if this article included the same for consistency?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.28.10.144 (talk) 11:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the Olympic Medals tables, consistent with the placement before the World Championship medals tables on the 200 metres page.  The tables for the World Championship medals were already inserted.  --Fsjeter (talk) 19:12, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Olympic & World Medals

message: i deleted a Chuck Norris joke in the notes about fastest men.  Are these popping up on Wikipedia, too?  It's like a cancer! The chavi 20:02, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chuck Norris

message: I notice that some articles put the unit name in full e.g. Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metres. Others use the symbol form. I am beginning to wonder if we should have a policy of using full unit names for article titles by default.  Bobblewik  (talk) 21:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would not object to such a change. David D. 16:27, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Should it be just 'X metres' or 'X metres <BLAH>' where BLAH is run, race or something else? Bobblewik  (talk) 11:58, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: '100 metres' rather than '100 m'

message: Isn’t the correct spelling meters? Both in Title and in the text it's spelled metres some and sometimes meters Lappen 21:40:25, 2005-08-12 (UTC)
: meter is the usual spelling in USA, metre in UK.  Wiki policy is that the article should be internally and preserve the dialect of the creator of the article.  The IAAF uses metres. The article currently has 3 occurrences of metre and otherwise sidesteps the issue by using the abbreviation m Kevin McE 08:27, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I SAY METERS  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.186.126 (talk) 21:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And I say tomato!...wait...that's not right...hmmmmm.... Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits) 22:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  metres ?? 

message: :The new rule is that after one false start, anyone responsible for a false start is disqualified immediately, though this rule has lead to some sprinters deliberately false starting to gain a psychological advantage especially if they're one of the slower starters in the field.
How does false starting and being disqualified give that person an advantage!? --Fxer 19:53, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, also the runners have to re-set themselves and get ready for the race again. They have to get their racing mentality back and put their mindset to running as fast as they can. Jazza5 08:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand the logical basis for this tactic, but can anyone actually find an instance where this tactic is employed (at the professional level)? Honestly I've never actually heard of it; but then again, the way I've always raced is that a false start is an automatic disqualification.Mipchunk 03:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  False start to get an advantage? and disqualified? 

message: By the looks of it, the wind column in the mens top 100 metre is measured in metres/second. Can someone who is more knowlegable please put the units into the table heading to remove any confusion over units. --Clawed 00:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wind

message: Are disqualifications relevant to the fastest time to run 100m? Or is this merely a athletics regulatory bodies point of view?--Darrelljon 20:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The IAAF website still credits Gaitlin with a share of the World Record and 2nd place in the form rankings.  Is there an authority that can be cited for his efforts having already been deleted.  If not, they should be restored, because it is not the place of an encyclopedia to anticipate events, ne matter how inevitable they appear.  Kevin McE 17:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't believe there will be an appeals process.  i think he has admitted his guilt and he has been given an eight year ban by the IAAF with the possability of serving only four years for good behaviour.  What ever that means. I assume the record will be revoked at the next IAAF ratification meeting. David D. (Talk) 20:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Relevance of disqualifications

message: Here is a reminder: As of June 8, 2007, Justin Gatlin still holds the 100m world record with 9.77 (+1.7 m/s), as ratified by the IAAF. If anybody sees the articles for 100 metres, World record progression 100 metres men, Justin Gatlin, or Asafa Powell stating anything otherwise, pleasing change it back so that Gatlin is once again stated to be the co-record holder. So far I have not heard any updated news about when Gatlin's record may be revoked or at least taken under consideration by the IAAF. Mipchunk 23:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gatlin's world record 

message: Does anyone think adding a section to do with heats would be appropriate? I think for this article to offer information and inform the public about the 100 meter sprint more efficiently, I think that the Olympic 100 Meter sprint heat system should be fully explained and put in the article. Thoughts? Jazza5 21:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that the structure of the heats in the 100m depends highly on specific competition, how many total competitors there are, etc. To focus specifically on the Olympic Games would be too narrow. I think it is possibly worth mentioning, but I feel that the system of heats in track competitions is not directly related to the actual 100m dash itself. Also, for the record, the proper spellings are "efficiently" and "article". It's important to be picky about spelling on Wikipedia since there shouldn't be any typos on the articles. Mipchunk 22:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I am usually very careful with my spellings. It was only a thought and as I was doing a project on Athletics I thought I could find the information on here (Which I usually could have) but I couldn't. Anyway cheers for the correction Mipchunk...Jazza5 08:11, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heats? 

message: Can someone include a footnote which explains the "A" following the time of Marion Jones.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaedglass (talk • contribs) 16:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you read the article it states A refers to altitude above 1000m, just for reference as there is no legal limit currently in place. - Rambo's Revenge 21:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A 

message: Shouldn't she get one of those asterisks like after the men b/c of her performance enhancing drug thing? i'm not sure how to write that up, so it would be much appreciated  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.167.160 (talk) 16:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Marion Jones admitted taking drugs starting in 2000 (the year of the Olympic games). Thus her Olympic performances in 2000 were disqualified, but her world record time was set in 1999 and thus still stand. Mipchunk (talk) 22:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marion Jones record... 

message: I have read and reread the last part of this about gaining an advantage through false starts and I still can't understand it. Could someone make it clearer? 83.221.80.189 (talk) 19:33, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  False starts paragraph 

message: At present, the year a performance was completed in is used as the secondary criterion for ordering the performances in the tables of the top times. However, I suggest that the wind speed associated with a performance be used as the secondary criterion. It seems to me that using wind speed as such gives a more accurate reflection of the quality of the performance. That said, perhaps somebody could explain to me why the current system is used, as it may indeed be that it is the better one. Milthom (talk) 07:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea. Overall, using wind speeds as a measure of performance is still a shaky judgment, as the wind speed measurement only takes into account maximum wind speed at any time throughout the race. Occasionally a strong wind is measured when, in reality, the wind aid was negligible because it immediately died down. I personally like ordering by date as the secondary criterion since it shows when the athlete first achieved his personal best. For example, suppose Usain Bolt, in the future, never improves his personal best, but continues to run 9.72 for five years straight (obviously a highly unlikely scenario). I would rather see when he first achieved this historic mark rather than when he happened to do it with slightly less wind, even if, statistically, it is probable that this performance may have been slightly better. Mipchunk (talk) 08:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose that's a good point, but the purpose of the table is to list the best performances in order, not to order by how historic the performance is. If one person ran the same time as another but had a lesser advantage from the wind, their performance would be the better one. It does not make sense to me to use one criterion to determine one method for ordering and to then use another criterion to try and simultaneously determine another method for ordering. Milthom (talk) 13:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But there are many other criteria that will affect the time an athlete might record: weather, altitude (even if below the threshold for noting it), competitiveness of the race, quality of the track, etc.  It comes near to OR to choose one variable as the sorting principle.  I would suggest either to order them by date or, to be even more neutral about a second criterion, alphabetically.  I do think, though, that an asterisk, or something similar, leading to a footnote, to indicate multiple performances of the same time would be worthwhile. Kevin McE (talk) 14:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, there are too many factors to consider to give an undeniable listing. If there were a reasonable algorithm to calculate how all such factors affect a performance, maybe it would be different. However, as the similar times must be listed in some order, it still seems more suitable to list them in order of wind speed, or whichever factor generally has the most impact upon judging how good the athlete's performance was. The current system uses an irrelevant criterion. Wind speed and other analogous factors are relevant criteria, and give more likely accurate--albeit not perfect--indication, which is the best that can be accomplished at this moment in time. Milthom (talk) 17:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The only criterion by which 100m runs are judged is time.  We are not giving a second criterion to decide which was the better performance, that would be OR.  All that is to be decided is the order in which to list equal performances.  Date or alphabetical are the onlyNPOV justifications.  Kevin McE (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. I see. Milthom (talk) 00:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree with Kevin McE: the IAAF does not rank performances by anything other than time.  The wind is either legal or illegal.  The site comparing wind and altitude that Mipchunk cites below is interesting, but has no official relevance, and I wouldn't consider  the results to be encylopedic.  TrulyBlue (talk) 09:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

text:  Milthom, if you're interested in seeing how altitude and wind speed play into affecting 100 m times, check out this website. While it obviously can't always work, it gives you a general idea of what the time discrepancies might be. Using this correction, it turns out that, using 0-altitude 0-wind as the standard, Asafa Powell and Maurice Greene both have 9.79, with Bolt in 9.80, and Tyson Gay in 9.82. Obviously there is probably a plus-minus 0.01 or so, but it shows how 100 m performances aren't actually shooting downwards that fast; people are just getting lucky with strong tailwind. Mipchunk (talk) 06:35, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Thanks.Milthom (talk) 02:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There needs to be a reference to Tyson Gay's wind-aided 9.68 in the notes under top performances.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.86.171 (talk) 20:24, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of performance as a secondary criterion 

message: Apparently "athletes of primarily West African ancestry hold 97 percent of top sprint times, including 494 of the top 500 100-meter times".  Should this fact appear in the wiki?  Whether the reasons are genetic or cultural, I reckon this should be mentioned, perhaps with a note that the reason for the correlation has not been established (though to my mind I consider the genetic argument to be incontrovertible, as the US athletes do not share the culture of Caribbean or West Africa).  Thoughts, anyone? TrulyBlue (talk) 09:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sebastian Coe is from the highlands of Scotland.  He's not. He is English: born in London before moving to the Midlands of England then onto Yorkshire.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.150.254.79 (talk) 14:19, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

text: I don't think it's important for this article, as this article is really talking about the 100 metres as an athletics event concept, so to speak. While such a topic is relevant in a sense, it would be equally inappropriate to discuss training workouts and stretching techniques geared toward this event, for example. For the record, the reason for West African dominance is, without a doubt, genetic. West Africans, in general, have a more developed bone structure and more fast-twitch muscle fibers. Mipchunk (talk) 19:19, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dominance of athletes of West African descent

message: I am curious about the speed as a function of the time and of the distance for this kind of races. The records talk only of the average speed, but I'd rather like the reaction time from the shot, how the athletes accelerate, and in general how the speed curve looks like as time and distance go on. Where is the peak speed, etc. Anybody has the data or can point to it please?? Many thanks!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.219.187.154 (talk) 23:36, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: More detailed description of the race

message: What is the top speed during the race? --Tubesship (talk) 16:39, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know the top speed, but the average speed is about 37 km/h for the world record of Usain Bolt.--Roentgenium111 (talk) 14:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, the reason for my question was to compare 100 meter versus 200 meter. It is clear that the average speed on 200 meter is higher and this is also mentioned in the article, but what about the top speed as the 100 meter world record keeper is always called the fastest man on earth. Therefore I want to know if this titling is justified or if it should belong to the 200 meter world record keeper. --Tubesship (talk) 18:22, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Higher top speeds are achieved in the 100 metres, but higher average speeds in the 200 metres. Mipchunk (talk) 07:29, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wonderful. We know the average speed, but why don't we mention the top speed? It is at least as important as the average speed, don't you think so? --Tubesship (talk) 16:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Top speed is not always known - most of the statements I've seen about how fast these guys go are anecdotal, since they don't scientifically measure their speed (they analyze the video recordings frame by frame, usually). Average speed is easy to measure, since they measure precisely how long the race lasts, and obviously we know the total distance. Mipchunk (talk) 08:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  According to the 10m splits at http://speedendurance.com/2008/08/22/usain-bolt-100m-10-meter-splits-and-speed-endurance/, the top speed would be around 43.9 km/h (calculate: 10m / 0.82 s times 3.6 (km/h per m/s)).--Roentgenium111 (talk) 20:33, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top speed? 

message: I attempted to add a section (which was deleted), which seems obvious.  The top 10 times ever run (legally).  It seems a discredit to Powell, Bolt and Tyson Gay in particular, that because the time was not a record that day, it is not recognized.  The top times ever run is a significant fact, and can not be found on wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.187.135.130 (talk) 05:49, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would argue that this section is unnecessary because it will inevitably list the times of the top athletes on the existing list, the all-time list. Consider this - within another year, most likely all the top times ever run will belong to either Asafa Powell or Usain Bolt. Is that even useful? We already know they own the top records. All we'll have is a list of some of their other times. I think other prominent editors of this article will agree. There are already external links provided that point to website with more extensive track statistics than on this article. Remember that the purpose of Wikipedia articles is not to compile endless amounts of statistics, lists, and other random information. The existing lists (the top-ten lists) some of the relevant information (the best 100 m runners ever), and anything more is probably overdoing it. If anybody else concurs with me, I will go ahead and remove the aforementioned section. Mipchunk (talk) 07:33, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are missing the point.   This is valuable information for a reader.   Historically, in this event, the top 10 times would include 15 or so athletes, the fact that Bolt and Powell may dominate this category is a testiment to their capacity.  But it is information that is very difficult to find, and of real interest in the category.   Why would you exclude it...it is a mistake to hold too tight to the term "unnecessary"...everything is "unnecessary", however it is of interest, and relevance, and the top 10 'runners' of all time, leaves out people's most common question, who have run the 100m in the fastest times.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chesterfield99 (talk • contribs) 13:18, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  The information contained in such a list is not useless, certainly. However, as I must again reiterate, Wikipedia is NOT the place to compile endless statistics. Without this restraint, one could end up posting the entire all-time list from times of 10.00 and below. Yes, that shows us how many times and how many people have run sub-10 100 metres, and yes, that might be interesting, but Wikipedia should NOT be the place for such information to be found. As indicated in the external links, it is the job of websites dedicated to the subject matter to be displaying such in-depth details. And, as to the question of "Who has run the 100m the fastest?", I think that the athletes all-time list is much more informative than the performances all-time list, as the former shows a comparison between different athletes, whereas the latter merely shows the consistency of one or two athletes. Mipchunk (talk) 22:36, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why are you the authority on determining the relevance of such statistics.  The 100 metre dash is a unique event, as it defines the 'fastest person on the planet', and to only have one time for Usain Bolt, Maurice Greene, and Asafa Powell is misleading.  The information is relevant.  Maybe it should be 10 and not 20, point taken, but to remove the list entirely is inappropriate.  This event is unique and should be treated as such, in Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chesterfield99 (talk • contribs) 00:03, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you consider such stats relevant for men but not for women?  Why do you consider it relevant for 100 m and not, for example, for 800 m?  The 100 m defines nothing other than the fastest man or woman on that track on that day over that distance, and any statement otherwise is hype.  The reason that only one time by Bolt needs to be mentioned,is because it only takes one run under 9.87 s to get into the top ten men: if anyone wants to know about his other achievements they can look at his article.  Kevin McE (talk) 13:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The 100m is not the same as other events.  Never has been, only one event carries the moniker "world's fastest human".   Again, only giving Powell and Bolt recognition for one time, diminishes their accomplishments (as you can see the top 10 only has 4 athletes).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chesterfield99 (talk • contribs) 19:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So you cannot find any reason intrinsic to the event, only a media slogan, to differentiate it from every other athletics event.  If somebody generally wanted to know the fastest runner, they would have to set up a timing over a short distance with full speed already acheived.  This event finds the fastest runner at running 100 m; the marathon finds the athlete who is fastest at running 26 and a bit miles. Nothing we report or do not report diminishes any athlete's performance: I cannot imagine that if Bolt runs  9.77 next week he will be saying to himself "if only Wikipedia would acknowledge this...". If you are primarily concerned about justice for athletes, why are you not making sure that we are telling the world that Kenenisa Bekele has run 4 of the top 10 10,000m times? Or that only Florence G-J and Marion Jones have times in the top ten for women over 100m? Kevin McE (talk) 23:51, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Chesterfield99, I think that you are a bit too worried about whether this article will properly "demonstrate" the accomplishments of top athletes. I apologize if I may have sounded overly critical earlier, but I still hold that an all-time performance list is not necessary for a short encyclopedia article on the 100 metre dash, especially an article that already has an all-time athlete list. Certainly, such a list is interesting, but such information belongs in the external links, as has been already done. If somebody really wanted to know which 100 m athletes had the greatest achievements, they might also want to know who has run the most times under 10 seconds (Maurice Greene), or who has won the most international sprint titles over 100 m (Carl Lewis). Would you suggest putting all this information in here too? This article is about the 100 m as an athletics event, not a history of 100 m athletes and their achievements. These achievements are detailed elsewhere, in both the external links and in the articles of the individual athletes, as Kevin McE noted. Mipchunk (talk) 01:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While I understand both your points, you are failing to acknowledge that the men's 100 metres has historically, and continues to have unique distinction.  The news media around the world has always covered this event, and the term world's fastest human, if used for the Marathon, let alone the 400m for instance, would sound silly.   Particularly, with the accomplishments of Bolt and Powell, the list exemplifies that (a) these athletes are dominant in the field and (b) that finally the doping issues as is evidenced in the notes section, while not eradicated from the top 10 'runners' of all time, is virtually eliminate from the top 10 'runs'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.33.83 (talk) 23:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Speeds Ever 

message: Doesn't Bolt's new WR need to be ratified by the IAAF?  Anyone know how long this process takes, or when it's likely to happen?  Shouldn't the article reflect that a WR is provisional until ratified?  TrulyBlue (talk) 16:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just found this piece that suggests that the last one took two months to ratify.  I wonder if it's faster for the Olympics?  TrulyBlue (talk) 16:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ratification 

message: Please replace Usains photo, it looks too... ridiculous. --Tubesship (talk) 17:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridiculous Photo

message: Is there a reason why all the dates are hyper linked? I mean, how often are you browsing Wikipedia and you see that Usain Bolt ran 100 m in 9.76 seconds on May 3 2008 and you think "hmmmm, I wonder what more I can learn about May 3?  But not May 3 2008, just May 3 any year."
We may as well hyper link the wind speeds.  In fact, just last week I wanted to learn all I could about the number positive 1.8... Wouldn't it make more sense to link to the results of meet? Constan69 (talk) 01:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hyperlinking dates means that they appear in the user's preferred format.  Your preferences define the order in which Month and Day appear, see this for info on autoformatting.   Availability of info for particular dates is a side-effect.  TrulyBlue (talk) 22:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 

message: I feel the wording of this article was some attempt to create the illusion that the 200m is a 'faster' event than the 100m which is why the maximum speed of 100m is worth mentioning. AVERAGE speeds ar higher in the 200m because it's a longer race, but, MAXIMUM speed is higher in the 100 - hence the title 'fastest man/women in the world'
The fastest 10m splits always occur in the 100m, maximum speed is reached at roughly 60m in elite sprinters, this would occur on the bend during 200m yeilding a slower speed. Also the nature of the 200m means that it is ran at a slightly sub-maximal pace.
I'm currently studying a masters in sports science and am apalled by the futile attempts at propaganda on the 100m and 200m pages to make the 200m appear a 'faster' event. Ippikin (talk) 10:20, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As a masters student you should both know the importance of citing good sources, and have access to such.  It is perfectly accurate to describe the 200m as having a higher average speed: rather than assuming that accurate data is some sort of conspiracy, provide the accurate data for maximum speed to provide comparson of the two events in that regard. Kevin McE (talk) 11:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But why bother mentioning it has a higher average speed?  What is the point of the comment? David D. (Talk) 15:58, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe it boils down to who "officially" owns the subjective title of "world's fastest man". These claims are inherently useless, Haile Gebrselassie has as good a claim to the title as Usain Bolt does. Plain nonsense. I think saying that it has a higher average speed is worthy of a mention though. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)WIKIPROJECT ATHLETICS NEEDS YOU! 19:54, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The "fastest" is top speed alone (see my comment on the 200m talk page) If you're going to play the average game then the 40 yard times that the NFL use are the fastest. Or at least use the first 100 of the 200m for a direct comparison (of course that is a disadvantage to the 200m runner due to the curve, so also pretty useless).  You can't factor in the second 100 of the 200m race as it has the flying start. Worse, it's not even a flying start, they are almost at top speed. No serious athletics statistician would use average speed to compare the races. David D. (Talk) 21:13, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 40 yards is not an established event: I'll assume that was not a serious suggestion.  A breakdown of 10m splits for, for example, Bolt's Beijing record runs would be a great asset to the article, and if comparable info were provided for the 200m world record run, it could support the claim that the 100m hits higher maximum speeds.  That max speed in the 100m seems to make logical sense, but the criterion here for inclusion is verifiability, not innate notions of what is probably so. Kevin McE (talk) 06:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a well known fact not an innate notion. Averages tell you nothing useful about the race. Sure they can be calculated and added without references but who uses them?  Who thinks they are notable? David D. (Talk) 06:11, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well known facts can surely be verified.  I note that in another talk page such data is discussed, even though the imprecise derivation of the data from TV footage is mentioned, if it is considered admissible for a reliable academic source,then it is admissible here. Kevin McE (talk) 06:38, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't bring the data to this talk page since it seems more sensible to discuss this in one place.  All the data is published in reliable sources.  Of course that does not mean the data is high quality but the margin of error is known. By the way, the data is not from TV footage but from IAAF high speed camera's. That does not mean no margin of error but it does mean the data is useful. David D. (Talk) 14:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maximum speed 

message: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/9/9f/Weltrekordentwicklung100mM%C3%A4nner.JPG TIA. --Schwarzschachtel (talk) 07:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone please include this? 

message: At this point, an article on the 100m race without Bolt's picture at the forefront is not an article. 9.58, my goodness.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.6.108.183 (talk) 08:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update picture to Usain Bolt 

message: Gentlemen, I believe we have our source for when 100 m sprinters reach their top speeds. And what race could be better than the yesterday's one! Keep a look out here as we'll be able to garner some helpful information for the technical aspects of other events too.
Personally, I think that less emphasis on this "100 vs 200" idea, and more emphasis on the 100 m race mechanics, would be better for the article. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)Join WikiProject Athletics! 13:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  IAAF Biomechanics Project 

message: The table that is showing the best performance in the 100 mt run is wrong. I mean, there is a lot of times that are not showing. For example, Tim Mongomery had the world record from 2002 and 2005 with 9.78 and doesn't show, the same stuff happend with Tyson Gay and others.
If the idea is to show the best time ever, that is not a good table. But if the idea is to show the best individual performance, we have to improve the table, because is now a good table either.
Top thirteen all-time athletes — men  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.196.67.170 (talk) 17:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table about all-time 

message: Is there any just reason why the picture of female sprinters at the top reads 'female sprinters', while the picture of male sprinters toward the bottom merely reads 'runners'? Wikipedia contributors should take greater care to avoid associating particular professions with particular genders.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.178.248 (talk) 21:17, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture annotations and gender 

message: I was hoping some recording of the paralympic record holders would be inlcuded in a discussion of the 100 meter races.  It would fit nicely alongside the columns for men's and women's records.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.148.0.65 (talk) 20:59, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paralympics 

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thread_title:  Dead link 

message: "The 100 m emerged from the metrication of the 100 yards". 
It's at the end of the lead. No source given. My perspective is that European nations would have been running 100 metre races all along. They would have never used yards. When the Olympics started, everything was metric. I suspect the 100 metres simply took over from the 100 yards as a more popular distance globally. HiLo48 (talk) 07:35, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't speak from specific historical knowledge but the entire sport of athletics came from England when Imperial measurements ruled.  I wouldn't want to imply that the jingoistic United States had an influence on the change, just because they converted to metric athletically in the 1980's, but the following sentence of the article does address the English origin of the sport and by that nature; the distance.  When the sport went beyond England, well before the first modern Olympics, then it went metric. Trackinfo (talk) 10:55, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this REALLY the history? 

message: Relatively few people do use the technical terms because relatively few know about the technical details of the subject--they just go out and run on a track, so certainly it is my motive to educate people into the correct terminology.  Reacting and researching, Chute (racecourse) the same term is appropriately used in horse racing, there are parallels in other track terms like steeplechase, so this is a logical derivative. Oh, I also inserted the word sometimes, because not all tracks need a chute, some have straightaways longer than 100 metres and many are exactly 100 metres. Trackinfo (talk) 10:47, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't get much more technical than this and this, and the IAAF don't use the word chute in either.  Kevin McE (talk) 11:30, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Chute

message: Why is Tyson Gay's 9.69 s not listed on the fastest times list.  It's right at the 2.0 m/s wind limit, but is technically not over it.  Is the "Luke Marsh" name a piece of vandalism? --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:41, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. It was vandalism.Montell 74 (talk) 07:30, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tyson Gay 

message: Just glancing at the top performers and had noticed Steve Mullings so checked out his page and he was found to be using illegal substances in 2011 which is when his time was set so he should not actually be on the list, I am not sure how to do this so am just making others aware so that they hopefully can.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielMurdoch (talk • contribs) 12:53, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: His 9.80 is still listed by IAAF.  He was found to have been using illegal substances at the Jamaican national championships in Kingston at the end of June 2011: that does not alter the validity (although some may consider that it casts a shadow on the honesty) of his results in Eugene at the beginning of that month.  Kevin McE (talk) 13:07, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steve Mullings 

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message: Reader can't know what the colors mean, because there is no key. One can guess the yellow means the best record of multiple records for an athlete, but this rule has exceptions. The green seems like arbitrary last N records or last N athletes, but it's almost certainly not arbitrary... Hristodulo (talk) 05:42, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green and yellow records in "All-time top 25" sections 

message: Lyles joins the 9.83 club. . -- 2600:1700:4678:F080:5991:3897:E784:8467 (talk) 02:50, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Noah Lyles

message: The ethnicity section of this article should be cut. It describes someone as the first "cacuasian" to run a 10 second race but seperatley lists the first "non-African" person as someone who is described as having Irish heritage. In this context, ethnicity is a poorly defined term with no empirical value, and the way it is used in this article is incoherent, as in the example above.  Qwcasd (talk) 04:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree. Ethnicity has no globally accepted formal definitions. It's not precise enough to be meaningful in this article. HiLo48 (talk) 07:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree also. Meters (talk) 09:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity section 

message: I don’t think the picture description is accurate. The 100m on an outdoor track is a straightaway. CarlStrokes (talk) 15:55, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the arrows just down align properly in mobile mode while holding the phone vertical. It does align when holding the phone horizontal however. CarlStrokes (talk) 16:00, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture description inaccurate