No Australian athlete competed in the men's or woman's 100 meter dash at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
100m and 200m dashes
Josh Ross currebtly holds the record
Jane Flemming is a former Australian Olympic track and field athlete. She competed in the heptathlon but also in her athletic career won championship medals in the long jump and 100m.
Usain Bolt is the jamican athlete who won gold in the 100m, 200m, and relay in the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Usaine Bolt, Jamaica. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, with a time of 9.69
Ryan Pini - first heat. Takuro Fujii - second heat.
Eamon Sullivan of Australia with a time of 47.05 seconds set August 13, 2008 at the Beijing Olympics.
A male athlete. Usain Bolt. 9.58m in the 100m.
Usain Bolt won the 100m final at Beijing
The Olympic and world record for the 100m women's backstroke in the Long Course (50m - used exclusively in the Olympics versus the Short Course) is held by Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe. She captured it on August 11th, 2008 during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a time of 58.77 seconds.