Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Athletics records

Almost exctly a year ago I did my one and only post on athletics, and indeed world records, so it seems a good time to note the world 100m record has been broken by Asafa Powell, with the time of 9.77 seconds.

Here's the evolution of the record in the last 20 years and since the war (this is electronic timing only which makes it jump around more than it should as most meetings were electronic timing until relatively recently).