Fastest 100m Sprint Times of All Time
About This Dataset
Fastest 100m Sprint Times of All TimeUsain Bolt's record of 9.58 seconds remains a monumental achievement, with a significant gap to the next fastest times of 9.69 seconds by both Tyson Gay and Yohan Blake. The emergence of Noah Lyles, who recorded a time of 9.79 seconds in 2024, suggests a new generation of sprinters is beginning to challenge the established elite. Notably, Justin Gatlin's 9.74 seconds in 2015 and Christian Coleman's 9.76 seconds in 2021 indicate that while the sport is evolving, Bolt's record still stands as a formidable benchmark. The consistency of times around the 9.7-second mark demonstrates the competitive nature of sprinting, yet the lack of new records since Bolt's reign raises questions about the limits of human speed.
Key Findings
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 1999–2024 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- 100m Time (seconds)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked lowest-first, because on this measure a lower number is the better result.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
Data Sources & References
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