Asafa Powell
#4 · 100 m · Jamaica
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Track & Running
Christian Coleman
American sprinter. Legal 100 m personal best of 9.76 seconds, wind +0.6 m/s, Doha, 28 September 2019.
Race time
9.76s
Legal men's outdoor 100 m, wind +0.6 m/s, Doha. One personal best per athlete.
This list
Why it's so fast
A 100 metre race is a start plus a short run at top speed. The legal list keeps only marks inside the wind rule, which is why a faster-looking run can be missing.
The blocks
The first steps decide a short sprint. Reaction, the drive angle out of the blocks and how quickly the athlete is upright all sit inside the same tenth of a second.
A legal wind
World Athletics only ranks a mark when the wind is inside the limit. A strong tailwind can post a startling clock that this list will not use.
The fastest legal mark is Usain Bolt.
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Provenance
Every measurement
Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.
- 9.76sRanked figure
Legal men's outdoor 100 m, wind +0.6 m/s, Doha. One personal best per athlete.
Official
Reference
Specs
- Country
- United States
- Event
- 100 m
- Wind
- +0.6 m/s
- Venue
- Doha
Context
Background
Christian Coleman's ranked time is 9.76 seconds, wind +0.6 m/s, at Doha on 28 September 2019. That is the personal best on the World Athletics men's outdoor 100 m all-time list. The public World Athletics toplist and Athletic Stats, refreshed 5 October 2026, print the same time, wind, place and date.
The wind is legal: World Athletics counts a tailwind up to +2.0 m/s. This list stores one legal personal best per athlete, not every race. A radar split or a peak speed from a biomechanics paper is not on this page. The metric is race time, and lower is faster.
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