Usain Bolt beat his own record a year after he broke his first record-breaking time which was 9.72. The second record time he had was 9.69 which he set in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Exactly a year later he broke the world record a very impressive third time. He is the only man so far to break this particular record 3 times. The record is now set at 9.58 seconds.
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Wilson Kipketer of Denmark holds seven of the ten fastest 800m times in history, including his world record of 1.41.11 from 1997.
Usain Bolt
12.87
19.32 seconds
19.30
19.19s by Usain Bolt of Jamaica in Berlin 2009.
the mens 100 meter sprint
9:58 by jamaicas Usain Bolt,10:49 in womens 100m sprint
Daniel Koman.
Usain Bolt
The first world record in the 100 meter dash was held by Don Lippincott of the United States who was manually timed by the International Association of Athetics Federation (IAAF) at 10.6 seconds at a meet in Stockholm, Sweden in July of 1912.