100m Dash facts
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The 100m dash record for Ohio State University's Men's Track and Field Team is still held by Jesse Owens, set in 1936.
Cricket player AB de Villiers was shortlisted for a junior national hockey team and national rugby team, holds six South African school swimming records and 100m dash record, was a member of South Africa's junior Davis Cup team and South Africa's U-19 badminton champion.
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In the 100m dash wherein Usain Bolt set the world record time of 9.58s, less than 8% of the energy his muscles produced was used for motion, with the rest absorbed by drag.
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Usain bolt beat scientist prediction of the WR of the 100m dash. It predicted that a human will go 9.69 around 2030.
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With only three exceptions, everyone who has ever run under 10 seconds in the 100m dash, has been of West-African decent. Of those three, only one is white.
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Florence Griffith-Joyner's Women's 100m dash Olympic record of 10.62s has stood untouched for 28 years. It would not have qualified her to compete in the 2016 men's 100m dash.
