Tokyo 2021 | Olympic Games: what are the 100m and 200m world records?

The 2020 Tokyo Games will see a brand new gold medallist topped within the males’s 100m and 200m with the dominant determine within the sport over the previous decade and a half, Usain Bolt, not among the many rivals in an Olympic subject for the primary time since Beijing in 2008. The Jamaican nice, unarguably the best sprinter of all time, gained gold in each occasions in China, London and Rio to turn into the solely athlete in historical past to finish the dash double at three consecutive Video games.

Whereas Bolt’s Olympic crown can be handed to a brand new holder when the dash finals happen on Sunday 1 August, his world and Olympic information are more likely to stay intact for a while. The quickest man in historical past exploded into the general public consciousness on the monitor on the Fowl’s Nest stadium in Beijing, setting world and Olympic information within the 100m and 200m at 9.69 and 19.30 respectively, with neither run wind-assisted. As such, he took Michael Johnson’s world report of 19.32 set on the 1996 Olympics and no one, together with Bolt, has ever bettered that point.

Mr Lightning would go on to smash his personal 100m world report a 12 months later on the 2009 Berlin World Championships, setting a brand new mark of 9.58. The Olympic report, additionally belonging to Bolt, stands at 9.63 and was set on the 2012 London Olympics.

Tokyo 2020: 100m and 200m dash contenders

It’s going to require the run of a lifetime for anybody to beat Bolt’s occasions on the Tokyo Video games. Solely two athletes among the many prime 10 quickest occasions recorded over 100m in historical past will line up in Tokyo. 4-time Olympic medallist Yohan Blake holds the joint second-fastest 100m of all time of 9.69, alongside Tyson Homosexual, however Bolt’s former relay teammate, now 31 and competing at his remaining Video games, set that mark again in 2012 at a meet in Lausanne. Among the many favourites for the title is US sprinter Trayvon Bromell, who ran a time of 9.77 in Florida final month, the quickest of the 12 months heading into the Video games. Christian Coleman, the reigning 100m world champion whose private greatest stands at 9.76, is serving a ban for missed medication assessments.

Rio 2016 silver medallist Andre de Grasse (PB 9.9), France’s Jimmy Vicault, the quickest European-born sprinter of all time (PB 9.86), and South African continental record-holder Akani Simbine (PB 9.84) will all be anticipated to be on the beginning line for the 100m remaining.

Within the 200m all eyes can be on Noah Lyles, who didn’t qualify for the 100m and can intention to make up for that disappointment with victory within the longer format, wherein he holds the world-leading time of 19.74.

Males’s Olympic and world 100m and 200m information

100m world: Usain Bolt (9.58)

100m Olympic: Usain Bolt (9.63)

200m world and Olympic: Usain Bolt (19.30)

Girls’s 100m the large attract Tokyo

Whereas the presence of Bolt has targeted consideration on the lads’s 100m on the previous three Video games, there’s a higher prospect of witnessing historical past within the ladies’s 100m remaining in Tokyo. The quickest lady alive, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, can be aiming to assert her third Olympic 100m title after successful in Beijing and London and the Jamaican will take some stopping after setting a pre-Video games mark of 10.63 on the Jamaican Olympic Trials in Kingston on 5 June, 100^th of a second shy of the Olympic report set by Florence Griffith Joyner on the Seoul Olympics in 1988.

Fraser-Pryce will definitely have that report in thoughts when she traces up in Tokyo however very similar to Bolt’s 100m world mark, it would require one thing extraordinary to alleviate the late Griffith Joyner of her world report of 10.49 set in Indianapolis a few months earlier than the Seoul Video games.

Defending champion Elaine Thompson-Herah – who beat Fraser-Pryce and Torie Bowie to Olympic gold in Rio in a time of 10.71 and accomplished the dash double with 200m victory – and 2019 World silver medallist Dina Asher-Smith pose the best threats to Fraser-Pryce’s designs. Thompson-Hera is the primary feminine sprinter since Griffith Joyner to win the 100m-200m double and won’t relinquish these crowns frivolously.

Asher-Smith is the reigning 200m world champion and completed behind Fraser-Pryce within the 100m in Doha two years in the past. Though her PB of 10.83 set within the Khalifa Worldwide Stadium could not have her Jamaican opponents overly involved, Asher-Smith laid down a warning at a Diamond League meet in Gateshead earlier this summer season by beating Fraser-Pryce and US sensation Sha’Carri Richardson to the road. Asher-Smith maybe has her greatest shot at gold over 200m although.

In a blow to essentially the most anticipated race of the Tokyo Video games Richardson, who ran 10.72 to put sixth on the record of quickest occasions in historical past on the Miramar Invitational in Florida in April, won’t be competing on the Olympics whereas she serves a 30-day suspension for marijuana use.

Girls’s Olympic and world 100m and 200m information

100m world: Florence Griffith Joyner (10.49)

100m Olympic: Florence Griffith Joyner (10.62)

200m world and Olympic: Florence Griffith Joyner (21:34)