World Record progression 100 m men

The first World Record in the 100 m for men (athletics) was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.

Manual Timing

Time	Athlete	Nat	Location of race	Date
10.6	Don Lippincott	USA	Stockholm, Sweden	July 6, 1912
	Jackson Scholz	USA		September 16, 1920
10.4	Charlie Paddock	USA	Redlands, California, USA	April 23, 1921
	Eddie Tolan	USA	Stockholm, Sweden	August 8, 1929
			Copenhagen, Denmark	August 25, 1929
10.3	Percy Williams	CAN	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	August 9, 1930
	Eddie Tolan	USA	Los Angeles, California, USA	August 1, 1932
	Ralph Metcalfe	USA	Budapest, Hungary	August 12, 1933
	Eulace Peacock	USA	Oslo, Norway	August 6, 1934
	Chris Berger	NED	Amsterdam, Netherlands	August 26, 1934
	Ralph Metcalfe	USA	Osaka, Japan	September 15, 1934
			Dairen, China	September 23, 1934
	Takanori Yoshioka	JPN	Tokyo, Japan	June 15, 1935
10.2	Jesse Owens	USA	Chicago, Illinois, USA	June 20, 1936
	Harold Davis	USA	Compton, California, USA	June 6, 1941
	Lloyd LaBeach	PAN	Fresno, California, USA	May 15, 1948
	Barney Ewell	USA	Evanston, Illinois, USA	July 9, 1948
	Emmanuel McDonald Bailey	GBR	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	August 25, 1951
	Heinz Fütterer	FRG	Yokohama, Japan	October 31, 1954
	Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	Houston, Texas, USA	May 19, 1956
	Ira Murchison	USA	Compton, California, USA	June 1, 1956
	Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	Bakersfield, California, USA	June 22, 1956
	Ira Murchison	USA	Los Angeles, California, USA	June 29, 1956
	Bobby Joe Morrow	USA
10.1	Willie Williams	USA	Berlin, Germany	August 3, 1956
	Ira Murchison	USA		August 4, 1956
	Leamon King	USA	Ontario, California, USA	October 20, 1956
			Santa Ana, California, USA	October 27, 1956
	Ray Norton	USA	San Jose, California, USA	April 18, 1959
10.0	Armin Hary	FRG	Zürich, Switzerland	June 21, 1960
	Harry Jerome	CAN	Saskatoon, Canada	July 15, 1960
	Horacio Esteves	VEN	Caracas, Venezuela	August 15, 1964
	Bob Hayes	USA	Tokyo, Japan	October 15, 1964
	Jim Hines	USA	Modesto, California, USA	May 27, 1967
	Enrique Figuerola	CUB	Budapest, Hungary	June 17, 1967
	Paul Nash	RSA	Krugersdorp, South Africa	April 2, 1968
	Oliver Ford	USA	Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA	May 31, 1968
	Charles Greene	USA	Sacramento, California, USA	June 20, 1968
	Roger Bambuck	FRA
9.9	Jim Hines	USA
	Ronnie Ray Smith	USA
	Charles Greene	USA
	Eddie Hart	USA	Eugene, Oregon, USA	July 1, 1972
	Reynaud Robinson	USA
	Steve Williams	USA	Los Angeles, California, USA	June 21, 1972
	Silvio Leonard	CUB	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	June 5, 1975
	Steve Williams	USA	Siena, Italy	July 16, 1975
			Berlin, Germany	August 22, 1975
			Gainesville, Florida, USA	March 27, 1976
	Harvey Glance	USA	Columbia, South Carolina, USA	April 3, 1976
			Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA	May 1, 1976
	Don Quarrie	JAM	Modesto, California, USA	May 22, 1976

Electronic Timing

Time	Athlete	Nat	Location of race	Date
9.95	Jim Hines	USA	Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968
9.93	Calvin Smith	USA	Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA	July 3, 1983
	Carl Lewis	USA	Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987
9.92			Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988
9.90	Leroy Burrell	USA	New York, New York, USA	June 14, 1991
9.86	Carl Lewis	USA	Tokyo, Japan	August 25, 1991
9.85	Leroy Burrell	USA	Lausanne, Switzerland	July 6, 1994
9.84	Donovan Bailey	CAN	Atlanta, Georgia, USA	July 29, 1996
9.79	Maurice Greene	USA	Athens, Greece	June 16, 1999
9.78	Tim Montgomery	USA	Paris, France	September 14, 2002

From 24 September 1988 until his disqualification three days later, on 27 September 1988, the world record was held by Ben Johnson, with a time of 9.79 seconds.