Usain Bolt has the record with 9.58 seconds. Florence Griffith-Joyner has the female world record with 10.49 seconds.
Gail Devers of the USA ran the 100m in 10.94 seconds
The fastest person on record is Usain Bolt, who set the world record for the 100m sprint with a time of 9.58 seconds in 2009. Bolt is known as the fastest man in the world.
Florence Griffiths-Joyner has the top three fastest times. Carmelita Jeter has the 4th fastest at 10.64 seconds.
The fastest female sprinter at the 2012 London Olympics was Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce. The Jamaican won the women's 100m gold in 10.75 seconds. The 2nd place was just 0.03 seconds behind her.
<p>Chen Jiaquan - runs 10 seconds sharp in 100m dash with hand-held stopwatch in October 1965, a time on par with the world record of that time<p> <p>Su Bingtian - the current fastest Chinese holding a record of 10.16 in 100m<p>
Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the women's world record in the 100 meter dash at 10.49 seconds set in 1988.
At 10.64 seconds, Carmeleta Jeter is the second-fastest woman in history in the 100m dash.
the fastest time is 35.67 seconds.
9.58 seconds
9.58 seconds for the 100m 19.19 seconds 200m and 4x100m 36.84 seconds
Kristy Coventry from Zimbabwe rewrote the world record for the women's 100m breastroke, and the record is 58.77 seconds.