Sprinting in History (Part 2)

Events 101 - 116 of 116

• 2013-08-11 Usain Bolt of Jamaica records best time of the year (9.77s) to edge out American Justin Gatlin and win 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia
• 2015-08-27 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the men's 200m gold to his 100m win

• 2016-08-14 Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt wins coveted 100m Olympic 100m gold medal in 9.81 at Rio de Janeiro Olympics - first man to win the event 3 times
• 2016-08-17 American sweep in 100m women's hurdles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with Brianna Rollins taking gold ahead of Nia Ali & Kristi Castlin; 1st time US has swept medals in an Olympic women's track & field event
• 2016-08-17 Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins 200m gold medal in 21.78; wraps up 100/200m Rio de Janeiro Olympics double
• 2017-08-05 Jamaican sprint super-star Usain Bolt finishes 3rd behind Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman in his final individual race, the 100m at IAAF World Championships in London
• 2017-08-12 Usain Bolt injures himself in his very last race, the men's 4x100m relay, Jamaica misses gold at world championships
• 2019-05-19 Sprinter Dutee Chand comes out as India's first openly gay professional athlete

• 2021-08-01 Marcell Jacobs becomes first Italian athlete to win the coveted 100m in 9.80 at the Tokyo Olympics
• 2021-08-06 Jamaican 100/200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah claims her third track gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay team
• 2021-11-09 105-year-old Julia Hawkins sets a world record as the first woman and first American her age to run 100 meters at Louisiana Senior Olympic Games [1]

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Birthdays 101 - 168 of 168

• 1960-04-02 Linford Christie, British athlete (Olympic gold men's 100m 1992), born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica
• 1960-06-14 Tonie Campbell, American athlete (World Indoor C'sship gold 60m hurdles 1987; World Cup gold 110m hurdles 1985; Olympic bronze 110m hurdles 1988), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1961-03-31 Ron Brown, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1984), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1961-04-26 Al Lawrence, Jamaican 4X100m relayer (Olympic silver 1984), born in Jamaica

• 1961-07-06 Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American 100m hurdler (Olympic gold 1984), born in Warrenton, Virginia
• 1961-09-28 Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian 100m hurdler (world record)
• 1961-10-31 Sterling Hinds, Canadian 4X100m relayer (Olympic bronze 1984), born in Toronto, Ontario
• 1961-12-30 Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete (Olympic 100m gold 1988-disqualified), born in Falmouth, Jamaica
• 1964-02-10 Sam Graddy, US 4x100m runner (Olympic gold 1984), born in Gaffney, South Carolina
• 1964-04-21 Ludmila Engquist, Swedish athlete (Olympic gold 100m hurdles 1996; World C'ship gold 1991 [rep. USSR], 97), born in Tambov Oblast, Russia
• 1964-10-02 Sheila Echols, American track athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1988), born in Memphis, Tennessee
• 1964-12-16 Heike Drechsler, Gera German DR, sprinter (1988 world record)
• 1965-03-29 Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete (Olympic gold 100m hurdles 1992), born in Tripotamo, Greece
• 1965-06-12 Gwen Torrence, Lithonia GA, 100m/200m/400m (Olympics 2 gold-92, 96)
• 1966-02-20 Dennis Allen Mitchell, American sprinter100m/200m (Olympic 4x100m gold 1992, silver 1996), born in Havelock, North Carolina
• 1966-09-05 Simone Jacobs, British 4X100m relayer (Olympic bronze 1984), born in Reading, Berkshire, England
• 1966-11-19 Gail Devers, American athlete (Olympics gold 100m 1992, 96), born in Seattle, Washington
• 1967-02-18 Colin Jackson, Welsh 100m hurdler (Olympic silver 1988), born in Cardiff, Wales
• 1967-02-21 Leroy Burrell, American athlete (Olympic gold 4×100m relay 1992 [WR 37.40]; World C'ship gold 1991 [WR 37.50], 93); WR 100m 9.85 1994), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1967-07-12 Bruny Surin, Canadian athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1996; World C'ship gold 4 x 100m relay 1995, 97), born in Cap Haitien, Haiti
• 1967-08-04 Michael Lawrence Marsh, American sprinter (Olympic 200m gold 1992, silver 1996), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1967-10-02 Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete (Olympic silver 100m, 200m 1992, 96), born in Windhoek, South West Africa
• 1967-12-16 Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete (WR 100m 9.84 1996; Olympic gold 100m, 4x100m 1996; World C'ship gold 100m, 4x100m 1995, 4x100m 1997), born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica
• 1968-01-09 Katie Anderson, Canadian 100m hurdler (Olympic 7th-92, 96), born in Kingston, Jamaica
• 1968-04-08 Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete (100m hurdles)
• 1968-08-06 Celena Mondie-Milner, Milledgeville Ga, 100m/200m runner
• 1968-08-31 Glenroy Gilbert, Canadian 4X100m sprinter (Olympic gold 1996), born in Trinidad
• 1968-09-04 Carlette Guidry-White, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1992, 1996; World C'ships 1995), born in Houston, Texas
• 1968-11-22 Irina Privalova, Russian 100m/200m/400m runner
• 1969-01-13 Andre Cason, American athlete (World C'ship gold 4 x 100m relay 1991 WR 37.50s, 1993; WR 60m indoor 6.41s 1992), born in Virginia Beach, Virginia
• 1969-04-10 Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter, born in Karditsa, Greece
• 1969-11-22 Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991)
• 1969-12-28 James Trapp, US sprinter and NFL player (Oakland Raiders), born in Greenville, South Carolina
• 1970-12-28 James Jett, US Olympic sprinter and NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders), born in Charles Town, West Virginia
• 1971-08-14 Christopher R. Nelloms, American sprinter, born in Dayton, Ohio
• 1972-04-27 Alison McKnight, 100m hurdler and heptathlete, born in Bakersfield, California
• 1972-06-12 Inger Miller, American 100m runner, born in Los Angeles, California
• 1972-07-05 Robert Esmie, Canadian 4X100m runner (Olympic gold 1996), born in Kingston, Jamaica
• 1972-12-12 Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter, born in Athens
• 1973-03-30 Kareem Streete-Thompson, Caymanian-American 100m athlete and long jumper, born in Ithaca, New York
• 1973-09-12 Darren Campbell, British athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 2004, silver 200m 2000), born in Manchester, England
• 1973-09-13 Christine Arron, French track and field sprinter, born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France
• 1974-07-23 Maurice Greene, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 4x100m 2000; World C'ship gold 100m 1997; 100m, 200m, 4x100m 1999; WR 100m 9.79s 1999), born in Kansas City, Kansas
• 1975-01-25 Tim Montgomery, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 2000; BALCO scandal), born in Gaffney, South Carolina
• 1976-03-30 Obadele Thompson, Barbadian sprinter (Olympic bronze 100m at Sydney 2000), born in Bridgetown, Barbados
• 1976-04-05 Kim Collins, Nevisian athlete (World C'ship gold men's 100m 2003), born in Saint Peter Basseterre Parish, Saint Kitts and Nevis
• 1976-06-01 Marlon Devonish, MBE, English athlete (Olympic gold GB 4x100m relay 2004; World Indoor C'ship gold 200m 2003), born in Coventry, England
• 1978-01-14 Shawn Crawford, American sprinter, born in Van Wyck, South Carolina
• 1978-08-05 Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter, born in Leuven, Belgium
• 1979-06-15 Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian sprinter (Olympic gold, 2004), born in Brest, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
• 1979-07-07 Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter, born in Corfu, Greece
• 1981-04-25 John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter and ESA astronaut, born in Frimley, Surrey, England
• 1981-09-17 Francis Manioru, Solomon Island sprinter

• 1982-05-15 Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete (Olympic gold 200m 2004, 08; 4×100m relay 2004; silver 4×100m relay 2000, 12, 16; bronze 100m 2004, 12), born in Clarks Town, Jamaica
• 1982-08-09 Tyson Gay, American sprinter, born in Lexington, Kentucky
• 1982-11-23 Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter, born in Spanish Town, Jamaica
• 1986-04-10 Olivia Borlée, Belgian 200m sprinter, born in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
• 1986-06-27 LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter, born in Portsmouth, Virginia

• 1986-09-17 Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter

• 1990-08-27 Tori Bowie, American athlete (Olympic gold 4×100 m relay, silver 100m, bronze 200m 2016; World C'ship gold 100m, 4x100m relay 2017), born in Sand Hill, Mississippi (d. 2023)

• 1994-09-26 Marcell Jacobs, Italian athlete (Olympic gold men's 100m, 4×100m relay 2020; first Italian to win the event), born in El Paso, Texas
• 1999-08-07 Sydney McLaughlin, American hurdler and sprinter, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
• 2000-03-25 Sha’Carri Richardson, American sprinter (100m world champion 2023), born in Dallas, Texas

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