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10.49 seconds at the U.S. Olympic Trials in July, 1988.
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The world record for the Woman's 200 Meter Dash is: Indoor - 21.87 (Merlene Ottey) Outdoor - 21.34 (Florence Griffith-Joyner)
As of the 2008 Games, that would be Florence Griffith-Joyner of the United States who ran a 10.62 at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Florence Griffith Joyner has the record for the fastest times in the women's 100 meter race. She currently holds the top 3 fastest times of 10.49 seconds, 10.61, and 10.62 seconds.
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The women's Olympic record in the 100 meter dash is 10.54 seconds set by Florence Griffith-Joyner of the United States at the 1988 Games in Seoul. The men's Olympic record in the 100 meter dash is 9.84 seconds set by Donovan Bailey of Canada at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
Florence Griffith Joyner has the record for the fastest times in the women's 100 meter race. She currently holds the top 3 fastest times of 10.49 seconds, 10.61, and 10.62 seconds.
Technically, the fastest person on the planet is currently Usain Bolt. He set the record for the hundred meter dash 16 August 2009 in Berlin, Germany, running in 9.58 seconds. The current women's world record holder for the same race is Florence Griffith-Joyner; she set the record in Indianapolis, Indiana 16 July 1988 at 10.49 second (nearly a second slower than Bolt). However, Ms. Griffith-Joyner did outpace the men's record holders from 1912 and 1920 Donald Lippincott and Jackson Sholz (respectively) who set a pace of 10.6 seconds.
In 2008, in Beijing, China: Usain Bolt won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Men's 100m Dash. Bolt completed the race in 9.69 seconds, and consequently set a new world record. Shelly-Ann Fraser won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Women's 100m Dash. Fraser completed the race in 10.78 seconds. The world record time for the Women's 100m Dash is 10.54, held by the late Florence Griffith-Joyner AKA "Flo-Jo". Flo-Jo set the record in 1988, in Seoul, South Korea, and it has yet to be broken. Both Bolt and Fraser are from Jamaica.