Usain Bolt 9.76!!!!!!

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Stunning 9.76!
Bolt runs blistering 100m at JII Meet

Sunday, May 04, 2008

JAMAICANS Usain Bolt and Kerron Stewart and Americans Kerron Clement and Lashinda Demus produced world-leading marks in the 100 metres and 400-metre hurdles, respectively, to highlight proceedings at press time last night at the 5th Jamaica International Invitational Meet at the National Stadium.

Bolt, the reigning World-200 metres silver medallist and World Junior record-holder, clocked a mind-boggling 9.76 seconds to equal the second fastest time of all time.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt (centre) thunders down the track on the way to winning the Men's 100 metres in a startling 9.76 seconds at last night's 5th Jamaica International Invitational Meet at the National Stadium. At left is American Wallace Spearmon and at right, compatriot Darvis Patton. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)

Running with a legal trailing wind of +1.8 m/s, Bolt held his nerve after two false starts to produce a blistering final 50 metres, to separate himself from the rest of the field to shatter the previous stadium record of 9.84secs established by current world record holder, Asafa Powell.

"I never knew that I would run 9.76, so this is good," an excited Bolt told the Sunday Observer. The previous world-leading time was 10.00 done by Richard Thompson of Trinidad & Tobago.

Only Powell with 9.74 seconds has ever run faster that Bolt over the distance. Bolt's previous life-time best was 10.03 secs.

Meanwhile, Darvis Patton of the USA was a distant second with 10.08, followed by Daniel Bailey of Antigua, 10.12secs.



Stewart, a member of Jamaica's silver medal-winning sprint relay team from the Osaka World Championships last year, posted a life-time best 10.96 seconds (+0.9 m/s) to win the Women's 100 metres, beating the previous world best of 11.06 done by T&T's Kelly-Ann Baptiste.

The United States pair of Marashevet Hooker and Bianca Knight was second and third with 11.01 and 11.11 respectively.

Stewart, who trailed the field up to the 40-metre mark and produced a late burst to overhaul her competitors, was elated with her performance.
Clement, the reigning world champion in the one-lap obstacle event, ran a technically sound race to post a world's best of 47.79 seconds, holding off the challenge of a fast-finishing Danny McFarlane, who clocked 48.74. Michael Tinsley of the US was third in 48.84 secs.

"Before I came out here, I said in my mind that I want to run 47 and I did that," said the T&T-born Clement. "Me and (coach) Bobby (Kersee) have been working very hard on the last half of the race and it came through today," added Clement, who ran in lane three to shave 0.53 secs off Bershawn Jackson's previous world best and shattered the meet (48.65) and the stadium (48.14) records.

McFarlane, Jamaica's 2004 Olympic silver medallist, was pleased with his season's best, especially after hitting the first hurdle.

"To run 48.7 like that, you know what's in the making. I feel I'm definitely ready to run 47 seconds,' McFarlane said.

The Women's equivalent went to meet record-holder (54.20 in 2006) Lashinda Demus in 54.83 secs. Despite the easy win ahead of Jamaica's Shevon Studdart (55.68), Demus was disappointed with her performance.

Josephet Kithill of Kenya clocked 3 minutes 47.51 seconds to win the 1500 metres ahead of the USA's Shane Stroup (3:47.85) in sprint finish, which brought the estimated 14,000 spectators to their feet. Another Kenyan, Phillip Lagat, was third in 3:48.74.

The girls from Edwin Allen continued their unbeaten run by posting 44.81 seconds to win the 4x100 ahead of Holmwood (45.70) and Manchester (45.84).

The Boys equivalent went to Calabar (40.35), with Oshane Bailey on anchor leg holding off a fast-finishing World Youth 100 metres gold medallist, Dexter Lee of Herbert Morrison (40.42). Camperdown were third in 41.07.

At press time, the Men's and Women's sprint hurdles, 800m, 400m and 200m were yet to be contested.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFE1ctdRc88

[hoggin88]

He dropped .27 off his old life-time best?! Any thoughts on that dbandre?

Mechanically, that start did not look the best. But it must have worked!

[anthonyj]

The USA better spend some extra time practicing their 4x100 handoff's for the Olympics. Wallace Spearman ate Bolt up while running the second leg on the 4 x100 at the World Championships last year. Judging by the picture, no one is going to eat Bolt up this year.
One more thing, Bolt is only what? 21 years old?

[dbandre]

May 4, 2008 11:54:32 GMT -5 hoggin88 said:

He dropped .27 off his old life-time best?! Any thoughts on that dbandre?

Mechanically, that start did not look the best. But it must have worked!

If he's not doping, the world should end.

His start and acceleration was pretty good but it's not what would be suggested to attain 9.76.

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Bolt must have been doping when he was 15. Either that or he's one of the most talented sprinters to ever walk the earth.

His start was fine in that race. One of his strongest points is his start. Both he and Asafa Powell prove with every race that being tall doesn't mean you have to be a slow starter. Anyone who's seen Bolt run would know that he's had this kind of speed for the longest.

As much as people talk about Tyson's curve running, Bolt is even better. For him to be 6'6" and be able to run with Tyson around the is rediculous.

15 years old - 20.58
16 years old - 20.13
17 years old - 19.93
18 years old - 19.99
19 years old - 19.88
20 years old - 19.75
21 years old -

The 9.76 converts to a 9.84 without the wind. So the time on the surface isn't what it seems. But the surface looks pretty good.

[dbandre]

His improvement at 15 is from being in a developmental stage not as an elite. He's been an elite since he was 16.

Even adjusting his former 100m PR from 9.5 months ago for wind he improved by over .02s on each 10m segment in this race. Acceleration alone cannot describe this type of improvement. He held his velocity for a long period of time. That's a signature of doping as I already stated in previous threads. You cannot tell he improved his acceleration, max V, and speed endurance by that much in that period of time on training alone at that level. It's not like he's a 15 year old going from 11.5s to 10.9s just because he became stronger.

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Please keep in mind that the wind was almost at the highest legal amount. Things like that have to be taken into consideration. Especially when the drug accusations start. His basic time without the wind was 9.85. An obviously talented athlete who's never tried the event will show obvious drops when compared to athletes who've been running the event for years. Case in point, look at his 200m progress. I can gaurantee you he won't run 19.4 or anything like that.

Bolt didn't turn pro until And turning pro doesn't means he's getting paid for it. It doesn't change how old he is. So many people were hard on Bolt for so many years, but all of the injuries, and disappointments weren't simply him underperforming. What 16 year do you know is at the peak of his physical development?.

Being surprised or shocked is normal, but the guy is only 21.

[dbandre]

It's all about the number steps he took and the time he finished in. After unscientifically counting his steps i had him at ~43 which I believe is less than Gatlin at Doha (~44). However, I doubt he had 43 steps when he went 10.03s last July 18th and more like 45-47 with all likelyhood it was near 46 steps. That's a 15cm improvement per step if you do the math or half a foot. That's a huge jump in stride length not seen in athlete's running elite times.

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May 6, 2008 0:22:41 GMT -5 dbandre said:

It's all about the number steps he took and the time he finished in. After unscientifically counting his steps i had him at ~43 which I believe is less than Gatlin at Doha (~44). However, I doubt he had 43 steps when he went 10.03s last July 18th and more like 45-47 with all likelyhood it was near 46 steps. That's a 15cm improvement per step if you do the math or half a foot. That's a huge jump in stride length not seen in athlete's running elite times.

He actually took 41 steps

I would expect him to take at least as many steps as gatlin since he's 6'6". 46 steps is far too many for someone at his level at his height no matter how fast or slow he's running. And I know it has more to do with force application, but the average amount of steps taken by a particular athlete won't change by more than a step even when they run faster. So i'm sure he didn't take anywhere near 45-46 steps.

For example, Bolt took 42 steps in the 1st 100m during the 200m final in Osaka. He ran 10.1x split for the 1st 100m in that race.

I know someone who has video of the 10.03 he ran this year, and I can ask how many steps he took there.

[dbandre]

May 6, 2008 23:59:52 GMT -5 off said:

May 6, 2008 0:22:41 GMT -5 dbandre said:

It's all about the number steps he took and the time he finished in. After unscientifically counting his steps i had him at ~43 which I believe is less than Gatlin at Doha (~44). However, I doubt he had 43 steps when he went 10.03s last July 18th and more like 45-47 with all likelyhood it was near 46 steps. That's a 15cm improvement per step if you do the math or half a foot. That's a huge jump in stride length not seen in athlete's running elite times.

He actually took 41 steps

I would expect him to take at least as many steps as gatlin since he's 6'6". 46 steps is far too many for someone at his level at his height no matter how fast or slow he's running. And I know it has more to do with force application, but the average amount of steps taken by a particular athlete won't change by more than a step even when they run faster. So i'm sure he didn't take anywhere near 45-46 steps.

For example, Bolt took 42 steps in the 1st 100m during the 200m final in Osaka. He ran 10.1x split for the 1st 100m in that race.

I know someone who has video of the 10.03 he ran this year, and I can ask how many steps he took there.

yes, that would be great. I lost the report on Gatlin's Doha race, if you could send me the link to that as well. Getting his steps are important at least to me they are and 41 steps screams pharmaceutically enhanced. Like I said it was rather unscientific with the youtube video. Is that an exact 42 on the curve and which lane was he in? I haven't done enough looking at strides on curves as it's lane and track specific and would require tons of data to make an accurate assessment of a curve to a straight time and the number of strides.

I am going to assume he was at 43-44 steps for the 10.03 for an early analysis. Which gives a range of 11.3cm-16.6cm with a median of 13.95cm. Either way it's likely around a 5 inch improvement. Only 42 makes it somewhat reasonable. 43 in 10.03s is roughly the same stride rate as 41 in 9.76, slightly faster by .00470 steps/s.

I actually agree with most of what you said, but this no typical increase in speed. It's an increase we see in 15 and 16 year old boys running 11.5 FAT the previous year.