Men · World record

100 Metres

The current record and its documented progression: 68 ratified records from 1912 to 2009, with 4 rescinded, 6 not ratified shown in place, plus 21 earlier marks recorded before the IAAF began ratifying records.

Current recordRatified

9.58+0.9

Usain Bolt JAMBerlin · 16 Aug 2009

17 years standing0.11 s improvementAll-time top 50 →

Record progression

Each step is a documented record; red marks the fully automatic timing era; hollow marks were rescinded, not ratified or are pending

9.5810.60

19121954 · Fütterer 10.21968 · Bambuck 10.01983 · Smith 9.932009 · Bolt 9.58

Documented records

68 ratified · 4 rescinded · 6 not ratified · 3 at altitude · most recent first · Wikipedia (EN) revision 1356240466, imported 2 Sep 2026

Mark	Wind	Athlete	Nation	Venue	Date	Stood
9.9	+1.7	Don Quarrie	JAM	Modesto, USA	22 May 1976	7 yrs
9.9		Harvey Glance	USA	Baton Rouge, USA	1 May 1976	21 d
9.9	+0.7	Harvey Glance	USA	Columbia, USA	3 Apr 1976	28 d
9.9	+0.7	Steve Williams	USA	Gainesville, USA	27 Mar 1976	7 d
9.9	−0.2	Steve Williams	USA	Berlin, Germany	22 Aug 1975	218 d
9.9	±0.0	Steve Williams	USA	Siena, Italy	16 Jul 1975	37 d
9.9	+1.7	Silvio Leonard	CUB	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	5 Jun 1975	41 d
9.9	+1.3	Steve Williams	USA	Los Angeles, USA	21 Jun 1974	349 d
9.9	±0.0	Rey Robinson	USA	Eugene, USA	1 Jul 1972	1 yr
9.9	±0.0	Eddie Hart	USA	Eugene, USA	1 Jul 1972	0 d
9.9	+0.3	Jim Hines	USA	Mexico City, Mexico	14 Oct 1968	0 d
9.9	+0.9	Charles Greene	USA	Sacramento, USA	20 Jun 1968	116 d
9.9	+0.8	Ronnie Ray Smith	USA	Sacramento, USA	20 Jun 1968	0 d
9.9	+0.8	Jim Hines	USA	Sacramento, USA	20 Jun 1968	0 d
10.0	+2.0	Roger Bambuck	FRA	Sacramento, USA	20 Jun 1968	0 d
10.0	+2.0	Charles Greene	USA	Sacramento, USA	20 Jun 1968	0 d
10.0	+1.1	Oliver Ford	USA	Albuquerque, USA	31 May 1968	20 d
10.0	±0.0	Paul Nash	RSA	Krugersdorp, South Africa	2 Apr 1968	59 d
10.0	+1.8	Enrique Figuerola	CUB	Budapest, Hungary	17 Jun 1967	290 d
10.0	+2.0	Jim Hines	USA	Modesto, USA	27 May 1967	21 d
10.0	+1.3	Bob Hayes	USA	Tokyo, Japan	15 Oct 1964	2 yrs
10.0	±0.0	Horacio Esteves	VEN	Caracas, Venezuela	15 Aug 1964	61 d
10.0	+1.8	Harry Jerome	CAN	Saskatoon, Canada	15 Jul 1960	4 yrs
10.0	+0.9	Armin Hary	FRG	Zürich, Switzerland	21 Jun 1960	24 d
10.1	+1.3	Ray Norton	USA	San Jose, USA	18 Apr 1959	1 yr
10.1	+0.9	Leamon King	USA	Santa Ana, USA	27 Oct 1956	2 yrs
10.1	+1.5	Leamon King	USA	Ontario, USA	20 Oct 1956	7 d
10.1	+1.0	Ira Murchison	USA	Berlin, Germany	4 Aug 1956	77 d
10.1	+0.7	Willie Williams	USA	Berlin, Germany	3 Aug 1956	1 d
10.2	−0.4	Bobby Morrow	USA	Los Angeles, USA	29 Jun 1956	35 d
10.2	−1.3	Ira Murchison	USA	Los Angeles, USA	29 Jun 1956	0 d
10.2	±0.0	Bobby Morrow	USA	Bakersfield, USA	22 Jun 1956	7 d
10.2	−1.0	Ira Murchison	USA	Compton, USA	1 Jun 1956	21 d
10.2	+0.9	Bobby Morrow	USA	Houston, USA	19 May 1956	13 d
10.2	+1.1	Heinz Fütterer	FRG	Yokohama, Japan	31 Oct 1954	1 yr
10.2	±0.0	McDonald Bailey	GBR	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	25 Aug 1951	3 yrs
10.2		Barney Ewell	USA	Evanston, United States	9 Jul 1948	3 yrs
10.2	+0.7	Lloyd LaBeach	PAN	Fresno, USA	15 May 1948	55 d
10.2	−0.9	Harold Davis	USA	Compton, USA	6 Jun 1941	6 yrs
10.3	+0.5	Lennart Strandberg RescindedLennart Strandberg ran 10.3 to tie the then-extant world record on September 26, 1936, and this was ratified as a world record. On February 28, 1938, the IAAF ratified Jesse Owens' 10.2 from June 20, 1936, meaning Strandberg's mark, achieved after Owens', was rescinded as a record.	SWE	Malmö, Sweden	26 Sep 1936
10.2	+1.2	Jesse Owens	USA	Chicago, USA	20 Jun 1936	4 yrs
10.3	+2.5	Takayoshi Yoshioka	JPN	Tokyo, Japan	15 Jun 1935	1 yr
10.3	+2.0	Ralph Metcalfe	USA	Dairen, Japan	23 Sep 1934	265 d
10.3		Ralph Metcalfe	USA	Osaka, Japan	15 Sep 1934	8 d
10.3		Chris Berger	NED	Amsterdam, Netherlands	26 Aug 1934	20 d
10.3		Eulace Peacock	USA	Oslo, Norway	6 Aug 1934	20 d
10.3		Ralph Metcalfe	USA	Budapest, Hungary	12 Aug 1933	359 d
10.3	+0.4	Eddie Tolan	USA	Los Angeles, USA	1 Aug 1932	1 yr
10.3		Percy Williams	CAN	Toronto, Canada	9 Aug 1930	1 yr
10.4		Eddie Tolan	USA	Copenhagen, Denmark	25 Aug 1929	349 d
10.4	±0.0	Eddie Tolan	USA	Stockholm, Sweden	8 Aug 1929	17 d
10.4		Charley Paddock	USA	Redlands, USA	23 Apr 1921	8 yrs
10.6		Jackson Scholz	USA	Stockholm, Sweden	16 Sep 1920	219 d
10.6		Donald Lippincott	USA	Stockholm, Sweden	6 Jul 1912	8 yrs

Rows link to a profile only where the athlete appears on a published list. Struck marks were rescinded or never ratified, and ^A marks a performance at altitude; both come from the source article's own key and markers, and eras are kept as it lists them. Nothing is inferred.

Before official ratification

21 entries · not ratified · marks from before the IAAF (now World Athletics) began ratifying records, or never ratified, shown for context only

10.8Luther Cary USA4 Jul 1891

10.8Cecil Lee GBR25 Sep 1892

10.8Étienne De Ré BEL4 Aug 1893

10.8L. Atcherley GBR13 Apr 1895

10.8Harry Beaton GBR28 Aug 1895

10.8Harald Anderson-Arbin SWE9 Aug 1896

10.8Isaac Westergren SWE11 Sep 1898

10.8Isaac Westergren SWE10 Sep 1899

10.8Frank Jarvis USA14 Jul 1900

10.8Walter Tewksbury USA14 Jul 1900

10.8Carl Ljung SWE23 Sep 1900

10.8Walter Tewksbury USA6 Oct 1900

10.8André Passat FRA14 Jun 1903

10.8Louis Kuhn SUI14 Jun 1903

10.8Harald Grønfeldt DEN5 Jul 1903

10.8Eric Frick SWE9 Aug 1903

10.6Knut Lindberg SWE26 Aug 1906

10.5Emil Ketterer GER9 Jul 1911

10.5Richard Rau GER13 Aug 1911

10.5Richard Rau GER12 May 1912

10.5Erwin Kern GER26 May 1912