query: who hold the world record in 100m sprint

pos: 100 metres world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt in 2009, while the women's world record of 10.49 seconds set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 remains unbroken. The 100 m (109.361 yards) emerged from the metrication of the 100 yards (91.44 m), a now defunct distance originally contested in English-speaking countries. The event is largely held outdoors as few indoor facilities have a 100 m straight. US athletes have won the men's Olympic 100 metres title more times than any other country, 16 out of the 28 times that it has been run. US women have also dominated

pos: Usain Bolt in the sport. From his record time of 9.58 s for the 100 m sprint, Usain Bolt's average ground speed equates to . However, once his reaction time of 0.148 s is subtracted, his time is 9.44 s, making his average speed . Bolt's top speed, based on his split time of 1.61 s for the 20 metres from the 60- to 80-metre marks (made during the 9.58 WR at 100m), is 12.42 m/s (). "World rank in parentheses" Usain Bolt Usain St Leo Bolt (; born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican retired sprinter and world record holder in

pos: Nesta Carter relay team so far to have gone under 37 seconds. In 2013, Carter participated at the Madrid Invitational, breaking the meeting record at 9.87, also being his season best. At the Moscow World Championships, Carter won the bronze medal in the 100m in 9.95, behind American Justin Gatlin (9.85) and Jamaican teammate Usain Bolt (9.77). He won a third world championship relay gold, leading off the Jamaican relay team, made up of Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade and Bolt. The team won in 37.36 seconds. This win was Jamaica's fifth consecutive major championship sprint relay gold, winning the Olympics in

neg: Sophie Hahn Sophie Hahn Sophie Megan Hahn, (born 23 January 1997) is a parasport athlete from England competing mainly in T38 sprint events. In 2013, she qualified for the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, selected for the T38 100m and 200m. She took the gold in the 100m sprint, setting a new world record. In 2018, she won the gold medal in the T38 100 metres for women at the Commonwealth Games; in doing so she became the first female track and field athlete to hold gold medals in the same event from the World Championships, Paralympic Games, European Championships and Commonwealth

neg: Patrick Jarrett (2016 World 60m Champion, 2008 Beijing 100m Olympian and 2011 Pan American Games 100m Silver Medalist) and Ramon Gittens ( 2016 60m Bronze Medalist, 2012 Olympian, 2012 Barbados 100m National Champion) Desmond Lawrence (2017 4th US Indoor Championships)16 World 60m Champion, 2008 Beijing 100m Olympian and 2011 Pan American Games 100m Silver Medalist) and Ramon Gittens ( 2016 60m Bronze Medalist, 2012 Olympian, 2012 Barbados 100m National Champion) Desmond Lawrence (2017 4th US Indoor Championships) Sprint Coach, Athletes in Action – Youth USATF (Raleigh, NC) 2015–Present Sprint specialist for the 100m, 200m, 400m and Sprint relays Sprint Coach, Enloe HS

neg: Jason Lachance he got back on the track in 2014. Due to limited mobility as a result of his injury, Lachance is now a T33 classified athlete. He is a past world record holder in the 100m, 200m & 400m sprint events. T34 classified athletes Jason Lachance Jason Lachance is a paralympic wheelchair racer from Canada competing mainly in sprint events. Lachance has competed in three Paralympic Games. His first was in 1996 where he competed in the T34 100m & 400m. His great success came in the 2000 Summer Paralympics where he won silver in the 100m, gold in the 200m

neg: Sophie Hahn for the 100m sprint, this time coming in second. The next day, on the final, Hahn ran a world record time of 13.10s, beating Hipolito into second place. Hahn won the 100m as the only athlete starting from a standing position. In May 2014, Hahn's world record was broken by Russia's Margarita Goncharova. However, just 24 hours later, Hahn broke it back in Loughborough taking her personal best down to 13.04 in the process. In her first ever IPC European Championships, Hahn won three silver medals in Swansea. The Loughborough-based athlete finished narrowly behind Goncharova in the 100m and the

neg: Tony Volpentest record in the 100m. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he finished fourth in the 100m but was unable to finish the 200m heats. Tony Volpentest Tony Volpentest is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 sprint events. Tony competed at three paralympics for the United States team winning four gold medals and a silver medal. His first games were in the 1992 Summer Paralympics where he broke the world record in the 100m and 200m and was part of the United States 4 × 100 m relay team that finished 0.02 seconds behind the world

neg: Geir Sverrisson Geir Sverrisson Geir Sverrisson is a paralympic athlete from Iceland competing mainly in category TS4 sprint events. Geir competed in four Paralympics, competing in two different sports medaling in both. His first games in 1988 he competed in the swimming events, winning a silver in the 100m breaststroke behind Australian Gregory Hammond in a new world record time, he also swam in the 100m freestyle finishing fourth and the 200m medley finishing fifth. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics Geir broke the games record to win the gold in the 100m breaststroke and finished seventh in his heat of the 100m

neg: T44 (classification) a strong competitor in the 100m event, winning at the IPC Athletics World Championships in 2011. Richard Browne currently holds the T44 100m world record after coming second to Alan Oliveira with a time of 10.75 at the Paralympic Anniversary Games in London on 28 July 2013. Other notable competitors in this class include Arnu Fourie and David Prince, who hold T44 200m and 400m world records respectively. German world record holder Markus Rehm with an 8.24m long jump was the first T44 athlete who won a national able-bodied competition, in consequence causing discussions about possible advantages of prosthesis techniques.

neg: Sumo-suit athletics main events at the World Championships include: 100m sprint, Long jump, High jump, Shot put and the 400m endurance race. The 2009 men's event, held at the Battersea athletics track in London, was dominated by three South Africans, Willem Muller, Jeremy Gallop and brother Michael Gallop, who won in all 5 events. Four world records were broken with only the 100m record standing from the previous year. In the women's event Charlotte Willis from Great Britton won 3 events, and four new world records were set in part due to the introduction of 'child's' suits for the women instead of

neg: Graeme Ballard Graeme Ballard Graeme Robert Ballard (born 16 June 1979) is an English Paralympian athlete with cerebral palsy, who competes mainly in category T36 sprint events. Graeme was born in Manchester. He competed in both the T36 100m and 200m in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens winning the bronze medal in 200m. Four years later, he competed in the 100m, 200m and 400m but won the silver medal in the T36 100m in the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He has also competed for the national 7-a-side football team and competed at a national level in swimming. Graeme has the world record

neg: Maria Lyle IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Lyle took part in the Newham International where she ran 13.90 in the 100m and 29.24 in the 200m sprint, though the times were unofficial and did not count as world records. In Doha, Lyle's first event saw her line up against the new world record holder Isis Holt. Holt, a 14 year old from Australia, pushed Lyle into second place with a world record sprint, though Lyle's time of 29.32 was an official personal best and new European record. Maria Lyle Maria Lyle (born 14 February 2000) is a parasport athlete from Scotland

neg: Sophie Kamlish to compete in the 2013 Lyon. She came fourth in the 100 metres sprint but won her first major international medal when she finished third in the 200 metres. Kamlish has also represented her country at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea and the 2015 World Championships in Doha. On 17 September 2016 at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Kamlish broke the World Record in the heats for T44 100m. On 17 July 2017, Kamlish broke her own T44 100m world record in the heats at the World ParaAthletics Championships in London. On the same day, she also won

neg: Tony Volpentest Tony Volpentest Tony Volpentest is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 sprint events. Tony competed at three paralympics for the United States team winning four gold medals and a silver medal. His first games were in the 1992 Summer Paralympics where he broke the world record in the 100m and 200m and was part of the United States 4 × 100 m relay team that finished 0.02 seconds behind the world record setting Australians. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics he again competed in the 100m and 200m and defended both titles with another world

neg: 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships out of a possible six gold medals with a world record time of 1.44:44 in T54 800m final. This was followed by a win by Raymond Martin in the T52 100m sprint. The highly anticipated contest between Peacock and Browne in the T44 final went to Peacock who took the gold with just 0.02seconds between the rivals. The contest was not so close between Oliveira and his American rival Blake Leeper, with the Brazilian winning his second gold of the Championship in style in the T43 100m. There were more gold medals for Brazil on the track, for Odair Santos

neg: Matt Shirvington in a relationship since Jessica was 17; and they live in . Matt Shirvington Matt Shirvington (born 25 October 1978) is an Australian athlete and television presenter who held the Australian 100m national sprint title from 1998 to 2002. Shirvington is the second fastest Australian sprinter. Raised in Davidson, a suburb of Sydney, Shirvington now spends his time between Sydney and London. Shirvington generally competed in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay events, finding the most success in the 100m sprint. He competed in the 2000 Olympic Games, the Athletics World Championships from 1999 to 2007 and the

neg: Matt Shirvington Matt Shirvington Matt Shirvington (born 25 October 1978) is an Australian athlete and television presenter who held the Australian 100m national sprint title from 1998 to 2002. Shirvington is the second fastest Australian sprinter. Raised in Davidson, a suburb of Sydney, Shirvington now spends his time between Sydney and London. Shirvington generally competed in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay events, finding the most success in the 100m sprint. He competed in the 2000 Olympic Games, the Athletics World Championships from 1999 to 2007 and the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2006. From 1998 Shirvington claimed five consecutive

neg: Georgina Hermitage she entered the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints. She won all three events, posting personal bests in the 100m (13.80s) and 200m (28.48s) and beating Lisa McIntosh's 15-year-old record in the T37 400m sprint with a time of 1:02.70. Just over a month later Hermitage entered her third Grand Prix of the year, held at the Olympic Park in London. There she improved on her record in the 400m winning the race in 1:02.48. At the end of 2015 Hermitage represented Great Britain at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. There she entered the T37 100m and 400m sprints.

neg: Kinue Hitomi of 2:17.6 in a dead heat with Lina Radke. She became the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic medal. In April 1929 Hitomi achieved 217 points in the triathlon (100m, high jump, javelin) setting an unofficial world record at the 6th Japan Women’s Olympics at Miyoshino. In May, she set an official world record for the 200-meter run with a time 24.7 seconds in Tokyo. This was followed in October by new unofficial world records of 12.0 seconds for the 100m and 7.5 for the 60m sprint in Shenyang. In early 1930, Hitomi was asked to lecture to women’s

neg: Freeman Register eighth in the final of the 100m, his only event at these games. Freeman Register Freeman Register is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category C6 sprint events. Freeman competed in three Paralympics, at his first in 1992 he won a gold in the 4 × 100 m and 100m where he equalled the world record and also won bronze in the 200m. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics he won a gold in the 200m, silver in the 4 × 100 m behind a new world record set by the Hong Kong quartet and bronze in

neg: Freeman Register Freeman Register Freeman Register is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category C6 sprint events. Freeman competed in three Paralympics, at his first in 1992 he won a gold in the 4 × 100 m and 100m where he equalled the world record and also won bronze in the 200m. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics he won a gold in the 200m, silver in the 4 × 100 m behind a new world record set by the Hong Kong quartet and bronze in the 100m. His third and final games were in 2000 where he finished

neg: Kadeena Cox a C2 track cyclist. A month later Cox was selected for the Great Britain athletics team to compete at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, where she entered the T37 100m and 200m sprints. In the heats leading up to the final of the 100m sprint, Cox posted a time of 13.59s to beat the world record set by France's Mandy Francois-Elie. Later that day she ran in the 100m T37 final, taking the gold medal in a time of 13:60, beating team mate Georgina Hermitage into second place. Her final event of the championship, the T37 200m

neg: Juana Soto record setting American quartet as well as breaking the paralympic games record to win gold in the 400m and setting a new world record on her way to winning the 100m. Her final games came in 1992 where she failied to make the final of the 100m, 200m and 400m but did win a final medal as part of the Mexican bronze medal winning relay team. Juana Soto Juana Soto is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category TW4 sprint events. Juana competed at a total of 4 paralympics winning 14 medals, eight of them gold. Over her

neg: Kim Du-chun title in the 400m in a new world record and despite American Freeman Register setting a new world record in the heats of the 100m, Kim beat him in the final to win the Gold medal but he was only able to win the bronze in the 200m. His final games came in 2000 where he finished sixth in the 100m, fourth in the 200m and 400m. Kim Du-chun Kim Du-chun is a paralympic athlete from South Korea competing mainly in category C6 sprint events. Kim competed in four Paralympics winning six medals including four gold. He first competed in

neg: Maria Lyle Maria Lyle Maria Lyle (born 14 February 2000) is a parasport athlete from Scotland competing mainly in T35 sprint events. At the age of 14 she set a world record in the 200m sprint, a record she has broken on several occasions. In 2014, she qualified for the IPC Athletics World Championships in Swansea and won gold in both the 100m and 200m T35. Lyle was born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 2000 to Raymond and Susan Lyle. She has one younger sister. She has spastic dipelgic cerebral palsy, attributed to her mother contracting shingles while pregnant with her. Lyle attends

neg: Andrey Vdovin Khugaev, Roman Kapranov and Evgenii Shvetcov, beating South Africa (silver) and Ukraine (bronze) in the final. The following year he represented Russia at Nottwil in Switzerland in an open meet. There he entered the 400m middle-distance event where his time of 51.67 not only gave him the gold medal, but also set a new world record. Three months later he was back in the Russian team at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea. He entered the 100m and 200m sprint events along with and the 400m. Vdovin won both the sprint events and broke his own world record

neg: U. K. Shyam U. K. Shyam Umaglia Kancanangai Shyam Dhuleep, (born 1 July 1976) commonly known as U. K. Shyam, is a retired Singaporean athlete and current national 100m record holder of Singapore. He attended St. Andrew's Secondary School and Raffles Junior College, and went on to do a double degree in Philosophy and Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He holds the Singaporean national record over the 100m with a timing of 10.37s. He broke the 33-year-old record of 10.38s (set by Singaporean sprint legend C. Kunalan) at the World University Games in Beijing in 2001. He equalled his own

neg: Assia El Hannouni Assia El Hannouni Assia El Hannouni, born May 30, 1981 in Dijon, is a French track and field athlete who specialises in the 800 metres Paralympic sprint. She has Retinitis pigmentosa which means that she is almost blind, with less than one tenth vision in her left eye, and zero in her right eye. She also runs against athletes without disabilities, in 800m sprint events. Representing her country at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, she won four gold medals, winning the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m sprints, and breaking the world record in each event. She represented France again

neg: Elena Sviridova at Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. She is married to fellow Russian Paralympic athlete Vladimir Sviridov, and they have a son, who was born in 2013. Sviridova has cerebral palsy. Elena Sviridova Elena Sviridova (née Ivanova; born 2 April 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint events. Sviridova competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won three gold medals, in the 100m and 200m sprint, and the women's T35-38 100m sprint relay. As well as her Paralympic success Sviridova has been dominant in her field during the World

neg: Purificación Ortiz Purificación Ortiz Purificación Ortiz (Campo de Criptana, 1972) is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category F11 (totally blind) long jump and sprint events. Purificación competed in three Paralympic games, first in 1988 then in 1992 in her home country and finally 1996. At her first games she finished fifth in the B1 long jump. She followed this up in 1992 with a new world record on the way to winning gold in the long jump, she also finished second behind compatriot Purificación Santamarta who twice broke the world record in the 100m and finished third in the

neg: Maki Okada in the 400m while in both the 100m and 200m she finished behind Australian Alison Quinn and Esther to win the bronze medals. Maki Okada Maki Okada is a paralympic athlete from Japan competing mainly in category C8 sprint events. Okada competed in both the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics. In the 1988 games she won the 400m gold medal in a world record time of 1 minute 13.40. She also won the gold medal in the 800m and it took a Paralympic record from Irish sprinter Alma Rock to beat her into silver in the 100m. She also finished

neg: Paul Nitz Paul Nitz Paul Nitz is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T52 sprint events. Paul has competed in five paralympics winning four paralympic gold and one Bronze Medals. His first games came in 1992 where he was part of the American TW1-2 4 × 100 m relay team that set a new world record on the way to winning the gold medal and won the individual 100m in a new paralympic record as well as competing in the 200m and 400m. In his home games in 1996 he again competed in the 100m, 200m and

neg: Matt Shirvington Australian national titles for the 100m sprint event. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, he broke the Australian national 100m record, finishing fourth in the final with a time of 10.03 seconds. Shirvington held the record until Patrick Johnson recorded 9.93 seconds in 2003. He also featured in two World Indoor Championships 60m finals. Outside his sporting career, Shirvington was a presenter of the Australian television program Beyond Tomorrow and participated in Dancing with the Stars in 2004. He has also been a National Ambassador for CanTeen, an Australian support organisation for young children living with cancer. In

neg: Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards the Hong Kong Sports Stars Award was resumed. In 2007, So Wa-wai became the champion having broken the world record in the Men’s T36 Class 200m Sprint in the Beijing Paralympic Games and won 6 gold medals in 4 editions of the Paralympics. He was also world record holder in the Men’s T36 Class 100m Sprint. For these attainments, So was awarded the “Best of the Best” Award 2007. He was also the first athlete with a physical disability to be awarded the most prestigious honor. In 2009, Hong Kong successfully hosted the 5th Asian Games. The Hong Kong soccer

neg: Femi Ogunode Femi Ogunode Femi Seun Ogunode (born 15 May 1991 in Ondo City) is a Nigerian-born sprint athlete who competes internationally for Qatar. His personal best of 9.91 at 100 m in 2015 makes him the current co-holder of the Asian 100m record, which is tied by a China's Su Bingtian later in 2018. Ogunode made his international debut for Qatar at the 2010 Asian Games and won a 200 metres/400 metres double. The following year he won Asian and Arab titles over 200 m as well as 100 metres/200 m sprint titles at the 2011 Military World Games. He was

neg: Kim Du-chun Kim Du-chun Kim Du-chun is a paralympic athlete from South Korea competing mainly in category C6 sprint events. Kim competed in four Paralympics winning six medals including four gold. He first competed in the 1988 Summer Paralympics where he finished fifth in the 100m, fourth in the 200m and fifth in the 400m. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona he finished second in the 100m behind the world record equalling run of American Larry Banks, and won gold in the 200m and 400m where he set a new Paralympic games record. In the 1996 Summer Paralympics he retained his

neg: Scott Reardon heroes, former track star and gold medallist Heath Francis and gold medallist and world record holder Evan O'Hanlon. With less than a year of training he finished third in the 200m and fourth in the 100m at the 210 National Athletics Championships in Perth. At the 2011 World Championships in Christchurch, Reardon finished fourth in the 100m sprint and fifth in the 200m, signalling his medal credentials for London 2012. Down the track, Rearson has firm intentions to add a Paralympic gold medal to his sporting resume. Reardon earned the Commonwealth Sport Achievement Awards in 2007. In 2009, he relocated

neg: Ben Rushgrove Ben Rushgrove Benjamin David "Ben" Rushgrove (born 23 February 1988 in Bath) is a British sprint runner with cerebral palsy. He runs in the T36 classification, and set a world record for the T36 200m at the 2007 Visa Paralympic World Cup, becoming the first athlete to achieve under 25 seconds in the event. He represented Great Britain in the T36 100m and 200m at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Ben won a silver medal in the T36 100m at the Paralympic Games in Beijing 2008 in a time of 12.35 seconds. He was forced to withdraw from the 200 m

neg: Damien Marsh He finished 5th in the 200m at the 1994 Goodwill Games with the same time. He won the Australian men's open athletics championships 100m event in 1994 with a time of 10.39 and in 1996 with a 10.43. He was 1993 and 1998 200m champion as well with a wind-aided 20.29 and 21.34 respectively. He also competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and ranked 9th in the World for his 100m sprint. that Australian 4 × 100 m record was actually set in the semi of the Gothenburg (IAAF world champs 1995) meet <br> Damien Marsh Damien Marsh (born 28

neg: Evgenii Shvetcov Evgenii Shvetcov Evgenii Shvetcov (born 28 February 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint and middle-distance events. A triple gold medal winner at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Shvetcov set three world records in his class between 2012 and 2013. Shvetcov came to world attention as an athlete at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London where he entered the 100m and 400m sprints and the 800m middle-distance race. In the 100m he qualified through his heat in first position in a time of 12.11s, a new Paralympic record. In the final he shave three thousands

neg: Wanda Hutson Junior Record. Her best time in the 200m is 23.65. Both performances came at the 2004 National Championships in Port-of-Spain. That year, she also won the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships women's 100m title with a time of 11.46, and was fourth in the finals of the women's 100m at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy, running 11.45. She had been eighth (11.87) at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica. Wanda competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as a member of her country's sprint relay team, which failed to complete its race

neg: 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships while Martina Caironi of Italy took the title in the women's T42. Italy added a third gold on day 3 when Oxana Corso won the 100m T35 with a world record time. Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli gave Malaysia their first medal of the competition with a gold in the F20 shot put. Finland also added to their tally with a gold in the T51 100m sprint from Toni Piispanen and a silver from Henry Manni in the T34 200m, high returns from a small but competitive team. 2016 Summer Paralympics host nation Brazil continued to impress with two more track golds,

neg: Elena Sviridova Elena Sviridova Elena Sviridova (née Ivanova; born 2 April 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint events. Sviridova competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won three gold medals, in the 100m and 200m sprint, and the women's T35-38 100m sprint relay. As well as her Paralympic success Sviridova has been dominant in her field during the World Championships winning gold in both the 100m and 200m sprints at the 2011 and 2015 Games. Sviridova was born Elena Ivanova in Yoshkar-Ola in the former Soviet Union in 1988. Sviridova studied economics

neg: Patrick Jarrett (Raleigh, NC) 2017–Present Sprint specialist for the 100m, 200m, 400m and Sprint relays. Sprint Coach, Saudi Arabia Federation (Raleigh, NC) March – May 2017 Sprint specialist for the 100m, 200m, 400m and Sprint relays Sprint Coach, Virginia Beach Flames – Youth AAU (Virginia Beach, VA) 2010, 2009 Sprint specialist for the 100m, 200m, 400m and Sprint relays. Coached several athletes to the 2010 and 2009 Nationals including 2009 Girls 100m and 200m National AAU Champion Jarrett originally started out running for Farmingdale High School in Long Island, New York where he was ranked #1 in the 100 m in New

neg: Purificación Ortiz 200m in a race again won by her compatriot Purificacion Santamarta in a world record time. In 1996 she was entered in the 100m but didn't run but did compete in the long jumpfinishing third behind her fellow Spaniards Magdalena Amo and Rosalía Lázaro who both jumped a new Paralympic record. Purificación Ortiz Purificación Ortiz (Campo de Criptana, 1972) is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category F11 (totally blind) long jump and sprint events. Purificación competed in three Paralympic games, first in 1988 then in 1992 in her home country and finally 1996. At her first games

neg: Peter Genyn the gold medal both in the 100m as well as in the 400m T51 event. One year later he successfully defended his titles at the 100 and 400 metres events at the 2017 World Championships in London. Peter Genyn Peter Genyn (born 24 December 1976) is a Paralympian sportsman from Belgium. Initially Genyn competed as a wheelchair rugby player before switching to track and field athletics in 2014 where he competes in category T51 sprint events. In 2016 he became the world record holder in the T51 men's 400 metres sprint. Genyn was born in Brasschaat, Belgium in 1976. In

neg: Eleanor McKenzie 100 and 200 race at all the Canadian championships. She ran the anchor position in the relays and with her speed she came from behind, breaking the Canadian relay record at the Canadian Track and Field championships in 1952. She placed 3rd at the 1950 British Empire Games in the 440 yards relay. At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics the Canadian relay team placed 7th. Eleanor's personal bests were achieved at the 1952 Olympics - 12.1 in the 100m sprint (7th fastest time in world) and 25.1 in the 200m sprint (11th fastest in the world). McKenzie's name was placed in

neg: Winning streak (sports) he did not hold the world record for the entirety of the period (another person broke it in a race that Darnyi did not compete in. He later reclaimed the record). Matthes was undefeated in the 100 and 200 meter backstroke races from 1968-1974, though he lost the world record in races he did not compete in during that span. He later lost both records for good at the end of his career when he earned a bronze in the 100m backstroke behind John Naber, who also set the world record in the 200m backstroke. Salnikov won all 61 of

neg: Liu Yang (wheelchair racer) 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand. He finished sixth in the T54 100m sprint and was part of the gold medal winning relay team men's 4 x 400m (T53/54). The next year Liu appeared at his first Summer Paralympic, the 2012 Games in London. He was again part of the Chinese team that took gold in the men's 400 metre relay, and also won an individual medal; silver in the 100m sprint. Further success came at the 2015 World Championships in Doha, with a relay gold and two further first places in the 100m and 400m sprints.

neg: Candace Hill won gold in 43.69. Candace Hill Candace Hill (born February 11, 1999) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She has graduated from Rockdale County High School. She became the world's first high school woman to break the 11-second barrier clocking 10.98 in the 100 meters sprint at the 2015 Brooks PR Invitational on 21 June 2015 in Shoreline, Washington, United States.Watch the 100m race here Milesplit. June 21, 2015. Her mark, quickly ratified, is the world youth best, the terminology for world record among athletes before the year of their

neg: Candace Hill Candace Hill Candace Hill (born February 11, 1999) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She has graduated from Rockdale County High School. She became the world's first high school woman to break the 11-second barrier clocking 10.98 in the 100 meters sprint at the 2015 Brooks PR Invitational on 21 June 2015 in Shoreline, Washington, United States.Watch the 100m race here Milesplit. June 21, 2015. Her mark, quickly ratified, is the world youth best, the terminology for world record among athletes before the year of their 18th birthday. She will

neg: Nigel Coultas Nigel Coultas Nigel Coultas is a paralympic athlete from Great Britain competing mainly in category TS4 sprint events. Nigel competed in the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics as part of the Great Britain team. At the 1988 games he won gold in the 100m, 200m and high jump breaking the world record in the high jump, he also won a silver medal in the 400m behind Finland's Harri Jauhianihen. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics he finished second in the 100m, 200m and 400m and was part of the Great Britain team that was disqualified in the 4 × 100 m.

neg: Nigel Coultas Nigel Coultas Nigel Coultas is a paralympic athlete from Great Britain competing mainly in category TS4 sprint events. Nigel competed in the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics as part of the Great Britain team. At the 1988 games he won gold in the 100m, 200m and high jump breaking the world record in the high jump, he also won a silver medal in the 400m behind Finland's Harri Jauhianihen. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics he finished second in the 100m, 200m and 400m and was part of the Great Britain team that was disqualified in the 4 × 100 m.

neg: Shing Chung Chan world record as part of the Hong Kong 4 × 100 m relay team, he again also raced in the 100m and 200m. His final games in 2000 saw him win 2 bronze medals as part of the Hong Kong 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m teams as well as racing in the 100m. Shing Chung Chan Shing Chung Chan is a paralympic athlete from Hong Kong competing mainly in category C8 sprint events. Shing Chung competed in four Paralympics, winning five medals, four of them in relay events. His first games were in 1988 where he

neg: Georgina Hermitage Georgina Hermitage Georgina Hermitage, (born 28 March 1989) is a British parasport athlete competing in T37 sprint events. In 2015, she qualified for the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, selected for the T37 100m and 200m. She took the gold in the 400m sprint, setting a new world record.<ref name="BBC 25/10"></ref> Hermitage was born in Guildford, England in 1989.<ref name="Dyke 24/06"></ref> She has cerebral palsy which mainly affects the left side of her body. She was educated at George Abbot School in her home town. In 2012 Hermitage gave birth to her first child. Hermitage took up athletics

neg: Ajibola Adeoye Ajibola Adeoye Adeoye Ajibola is a paralympic athlete from Nigeria competing mainly in category TS4 sprint events. Adeoye attended Saka Tinubu Secondary School Agege in the 80's representing the school at inter house sports events. He is his mothers first child. His siblings are Bisi, Segun, Dupe, Samson, Buki and Sola He was married with children. He competed in the 100m, 200m and long jump at both the 1992 and 1996 Summer Paralympics. At the 1992 games he didn't start the long jump competition but did break the world record in both the 100m and 200m to win gold in

neg: Maki Okada Maki Okada Maki Okada is a paralympic athlete from Japan competing mainly in category C8 sprint events. Okada competed in both the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics. In the 1988 games she won the 400m gold medal in a world record time of 1 minute 13.40. She also won the gold medal in the 800m and it took a Paralympic record from Irish sprinter Alma Rock to beat her into silver in the 100m. She also finished in fifth place in the 200m. In the 1992 Paralympics it took another world record by British sprinter Esther Cruice to beat her

neg: Serhiy Klippert medals, both in world record times. In Beijing in 2008 he finished fourth in the 100m butterfly as well as finishing second in the 100m freestyle behind his compatriot Maksym Veraksa who won in a new world record time. He also finished second in the 100m backstroke behind world record breaker Alexander Nevolin-Svetov of Russia, he then finished behind both Maksym and Alexander in the 50m freestyle and 200m medley and picked up further bronzes in the 400m freestyle and 100m breaststroke. Serhiy Klippert Sergii Klippert (born 31 March 1989) is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category

neg: Farida Osman youngest athlete on the team and participated in the 50m, 100m freestyle and the 50m and 100m butterfly. Osman broke the Arab record for the 50m butterfly where she became the youngest Egyptian and Arab athlete to ever win the event and break the record. She finished 6th in the 100m butterfly. The same year she competed at the All Africa Games and finished fifth in the 50m butterfly with a time of 28.95. Osman continued her career by participating in various international competitions such as the International Sindlefingen Swimming Competition (ISSC) where she competed in all sprint events in

neg: Candace Hill turned professional with ASICS ten-year contract, skipping college athletics. In 2016, Candace missed 4 months of training and won 2016 USA Junior Championships prelim in 200 meters in 22.76, won prelim and finals in 100 meters in 11.24. A week later, Candace Hill placed 14th in 23.05 in 200 meters at 2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) (22.93 in prelim). US sprint sensation Candace Hill’s championship record of 11.07 (0.9 m/s) to take the women’s 100m IAAF World U20 Championships title at 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships and ran anchor leg of 4x100 meters on a team who

neg: Matthew Abeysinghe by his father Manoj Abeysinghe. His brothers Andrew, Dillon and Kyle Abeysinghe all represented Sri Lanka and together they hold the Sri Lankan national record for the Men's 4x50 Medley Relay. Matthew Abeysinghe Matthew Abeysinghe (born March 19, 1996) is a Sri Lankan medal winning swimmer who has represented his country at numerous international competitions. He is the current Sri Lankan record holder in the 50m freestyle (22.28), 100m freestyle (49.11), 200m freestyle (1:50.97 ), 400m freestyle (4:03.90), 1500 freestyle (16:23.61), 50 backstroke (26.94), 200 individual medley (2:07.33), 400 individual medley (4:40.47) and 100m butterfly (54.71). He also hold all

neg: Rhys Jones (athlete) was entering senior championships, competing in sprints and the long jump in the 2008 CP National Championships in Nottingham. In 2011 Jones entered events across Europe taking first place at the Czech Open. He posted two personal bests in 2012, 12.25s in the 100m sprint at Birmingham and 25.24s in the 200m in the London Disability Athletics Challenge. He qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in both 100m and 200m sprint. He followed his first Paralympic Games by qualifying for this 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon finishing 7th in the 100m and 8th in the 200m. In 2014

neg: Felipe Gomes was disqualified in their first heat, and although scheduled to participate in the triple jump his injury forced him to retire before the event began. Four years later Gomes was reselected for Brazil when he competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. There he entered both the 100m and 200m T11 sprint events. He took bronze in the 100m and gold in the 200m. In 2013, Gomes again represented Brazil when he attended the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France. There he entered the 100m sprint, finishing second to take the silver medal. Felipe Gomes Felipe Da Sousa

neg: Ken Irvine named on the wing. Ken Irvine held the World Sprint 100 yards Record in 1963. At Dubbo in 1963 he had run 100 yards (91 m) in 9.3 seconds, setting a world professional sprint record. The only Rugby League player to hold a World Sprint Record. Ref http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/irvine-kenneth-john-ken-12682 In 2018, the award for the NRL's top tryscorer for the season was named the Ken Irvine Medal, with David Fusitu'a from the New Zealand Warriors being the inaugural winner (with 23 tries) Ken Irvine Kenneth John Irvine (5 March 1940 – 22 December 1990) was an Australian rugby league footballer of

neg: Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup (born September 12, 1971) is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100m specialist and the Bahamian record holder for the women's 100m with a personal best of 10.84 set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005. Sturrup is an alumnus of Norfolk State University, and has taken part in almost every major event since 1991 after the birth of her son, Shawn Murray Jr. For most of her career, she was coached by Trevor Graham. Sturrup competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first-round

neg: Chen Junfei Chen Junfei Chen Junefi (born 15 May 1992) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in T38 classification sprint events. Chen represented her country at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won three medals; a gold in the 100m sprint and silvers in both the 200m sprint and the women's 4 x 100m relay (T35-38). As well as her Paralympic success Chen has won medals at both World Championships and the Asian Para Games, dominating her classification in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, where she took home four gold medals. Chen was born in China in

neg: Chen Junfei 1992. She has an impairment to her left hand. She lives in Hunan Province and received her higher education at Tianshui City Sports Institute. She is a professional athlete. Chen Junfei Chen Junefi (born 15 May 1992) is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in T38 classification sprint events. Chen represented her country at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won three medals; a gold in the 100m sprint and silvers in both the 200m sprint and the women's 4 x 100m relay (T35-38). As well as her Paralympic success Chen has won medals at both World

neg: Oleksandr Mashchenko improved enough that Oleksandr was part of the team that broke the world record to win gold, Oleksandr also picked up a bronze in the 200m individual medley, finished eighth in the 50m freestyle, seventh in the 100m backstroke and qualified for the final of the 100m butterfly. As well as his 100m breaststroke gold in 2008 he also won a silver in the 100m butterfly behind Spaniard Enhamed Enhamed who set a new world record, finished eighth in the 50m freestyle and sixth in the 100m backstroke. Oleksandr Mashchenko Oleksandr Mashchenko (born 15 November 1985) is a paralympic swimmer

neg: Kadeena Cox Kadeena Cox Kadeena Cox, (born 10 March 1991) is a British parasport athlete competing in T38 sprints and C4 para-cycling events. She was part of the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, in which she won world titles in the T37 100m and C4 500m time trial respectively. Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in both athletics and cycling, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 100m T38 sprint, before winning a gold medal in the Women's C4-5 cycling time trial, and another gold in the T38 400m sprint,

neg: Chris Lloyd Chris Lloyd Chris Lloyd (born October 10, 1980) is a sprinter from Dominica who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.40 seconds, achieved in April 2007 in Lawrence. The Dominican record currently belongs to Bruce Phillip with 45.31 seconds. Lloyd does hold the Dominican 200 metres record, however, with 20.62 seconds and 100m, achieved in April 2006 in Baton Rouge. He participated at the World Championships in 2003 and 2005, the World Indoor Championships in 2004 and 2006 and the 2004 Olympic Games without ever reaching the final. In 2007 he won the bronze medal at

neg: Shamha Ahmed Shamha Ahmed Shamha Ahmed (born 8 April 1982 in Male’) is an Athlete from the Maldives who represents the country in Athletics. Born to a family of 8, Shamha first competed in the Inter House Athletics Meet where she broke the Maldives 100m record in 1998, finishing at a time of 13:20s. Shamha first represented Maldives in 1998 at the Junior World Championship in Annecy, France. In 2000, she competed in the 100 meters sprint in the year 2000 Sydney Olympics, Australia. She ran in first round of the main event with her a time of 12.87s. In 2001, Shamha

neg: Fatou Dieng (athlete) 100m at 13.29 seconds which she ran at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Ottawa, Canada on 20 July 2001. She ran faster the next day, achieving a time of 11.87 seconds which still stands as the Mauritanian national record. She was entered into the senior 100m women's sprint event at the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique but no result was recorded. Fatou Dieng (athlete) Fatou Ndaga Dieng (born 14 September 1983) is a former Mauritanian sprint athlete, and is now a member of the Mauritania National Olympic and Sports Committee. In 2000 Dieng became the first female to

neg: Ralph Craig Ralph Craig Ralph Cook Craig (June 21, 1889 – July 21, 1972) was an American athlete, winner of the sprint double at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Craig began his track career as a hurdler at Detroit Central High School, and only later developed into a sprinter at the University of Michigan. In 1910, he won the IC4A 220 y championship, repeating this the following year. In 1912, Craig qualified for the Olympic team and went to Sweden, where he reached the final of the 100m. A big favourite was his compatriot Donald Lippincott, who had set a World Record of

neg: S12 (classification) and 400m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke, 100m Breaststroke, 100m Butterfly, 200m Individual Medley, and 4x100m Freestyle Relay and 4x100m Medley Relay. Swimmers who have competed in this classification include Anna Efimenko, Deborah Font and Ana Garcia-Arcicollar who all won medals in their class at the 2008 Paralympics. American swimmers who have been classified by the United States Paralympic Committee as being in this class include Katie Robinson, Alexandra Stafford and Carly Stevason. In the S12 50 m Freestyle Long Course, the men's world record is held by the Ukraine's Maksym Veraksa and the women's world record is held by Russia's Oxana

neg: Wang Yanping Wang Yanping Wang Yanping (born 22 November 1993) is a Paralympic athlete from China who competes in throwing events for F37 classification athletes. Wang became involved in sport in 2005. Her first major international games was the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch. She entered the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints, her best result being fourth place in the 400 m race. A year later she competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London where she won bronze in the 100m T46 sprint. As well as her Paralympic success, Wang has won medals at the 2015 World Championships in

neg: Brent Lakatos on the international stage when he won five medals, four of them gold at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, becoming world champion in the 100, 200 and 400m. Then the day after the World Championships he competed in the Sainsbury Anniversary Games in London, setting the World Record in the 100m with a time 14.34s. Brent Lakatos Brent Lakatos (born 1 June 1980) is a Canadian wheelchair racer in the T53 classification. Lakatos has represented Canada at three Summer Paralympics, and at the 2012 Games he won three silver medals in the sprint and mid-distance events. In 2013 Lakatos

neg: Ola Abidogun competition, he won silver in the 100m and gold in the 200m at the Paralympic World Cup in May. It had been his début at a World Cup event, and Channel 4 would later describe his performance as announcing "himself as a new GB sprint star". He finished 2011 ranked eighth in the world in the 100m and tenth in the 200m. He was selected for the British team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, to compete in both the T46 100m and 200m. Abidogun made his debut at the 2012 Summer Paralympics by qualifying for the final of

neg: Kliment Kolesnikov Kliment Kolesnikov Kliment Andreyevich Kolesnikov (; born 9 July 2000) is a Russian swimmer. He made his debut at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, where he competed in three backstroke events and set two world junior records. In 2017, he set a short course 100m backstroke world record at Vladimir Salnikov Cup, becoming the first swimmer born in the 21st century to hold a world record in an individual event. He won a total of six medals (3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze) at the 2018 European Championships and established a new 50m backstroke world record. He also won

neg: Markus Pöyhönen in 2002, is 10.23 seconds; 0.02 s shy of the Finnish national record. Markus Pöyhönen Markus Pöyhönen (born 25 October 1978, in Vantaa) is a Finnish former athlete, who specialised in the 100m sprint. Pöyhönen's trainer during his active career was Atte Pettinen. At the 2002 European Championships in Athletics he became the first Finnish male in history to reach the 100 m sprint final in an international championship event. He finished fifth in the race, though years later Dwain Chambers was disqualified and Pöyhönen's final position was fourth. He finished seventh in the 60 metres final at the 2003

neg: Yoshikazu Sakai Yoshikazu Sakai Yoshikazu Sakai is a Japanese paralympic swimmer who competes mainly in category S11 events. Yoshikazu competed in two paralympics for the Japanese swimming team first in 2000 and then again in 2004. In 2000 he set a new world record in both the heats and the final of the 100m backstroke and was part of the Japanese relay team that broke the 4x100m medley record to beat Great Britain by 0.07 seconds, he also won a silver in the 100m freestyle and a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly after breaking the world record in the heats only

neg: Calvin Kang Li Loong Calvin Kang Li Loong Calvin Kang Li Loong (); (born 16 April 1990) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Singapore. He specialises in the 100m sprint, but also runs the 200m and 4 × 100 m events. Kang attended Victoria School and Singapore Sports School. Upon graduation from Singapore Sports School, Kang entered Nanyang Technological University to pursue his undergraduate degree in sport science and management in 2011 before deciding to defer his studies to train professionally in 2013. He represented Singapore at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the 100m sprint and placed

neg: Zhou Guohua She did not compete a lot in international events until just before the 2012 Paralympics where she took two gold medals in Croatia at 100 and 200 metres. Zhou won two medals at her first Summer Paralympics, the 2012 London Games, including the gold medal in the women's 100m sprint. Here she set a new world record of 12.05 seconds in the T12 event. The time was so quick that this would place her in the top women in the world irrespective of her disability. She is also a World Championships and Asian Games medalists, winning five medals over four

neg: Vanessa Low jump, when she competed at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea. Her distance of 4.24m was a big improvement on her previous major competitions, where she had not jumped over four metres. The result saw her win gold, and more importantly, beat her two major world rivals: Schmidt and Italy's Martina Caironi. In the build up to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Low competed at the 2015 World Championships in Doha. In the 100m sprint she posted a personal best of 15.41s to win the silver medal, but it was her world record distance of 4.79m in

neg: Timo André Bakken Søgnen Jensen beat his record. Timo André Bakken Timo André Bakken (born 21 March 1989) is a Norwegian cross-country skier. He won a silver medal in the sprint race at the 2009 Junior World Ski Championships. He made his World Cup debut in March 2008 in Drammen, and collected his first World Cup points in March 2009 in Trondheim. A 27th place in November 2009 in Kuusamo followed. He represents the sports club Mjøndalen IF, and lives in Skotselv. In 2012 Timo Andre Bakken become the world fastest skier in 100m. He beat skiers like Petter Northug jr. and Emil

neg: Damien Marsh 20.32. Weeks earlier to running 10.13, Marsh led Australia to a silver medal in the 4X100m sprint relay in a national record time of 38.17 at the 1995 IAAF World Championships. Marsh narrowly missed out in reaching the 100m final with a 9th best 10.20 time in the event semi-finals. He finished 1995 ranked 9th in the world in the 200m. After suffering a ruptured achilles tendon injury during training for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics however, he never returned to such world-class form. Marsh 8th in the final of the 1993 World Championships 200m event with a time of 20.56.

neg: Kinect Sports record or win an otherwise crucial point. On 11 November 2010, a "Kinect Sports" Facebook app was released which sorts times set in the Xbox 360 game into online leagues. Co-developed by Rare and web agency Nzime, the Facebook app uses an Xbox LIVE gamertag to compare results with friends and other players in "Kinect Sports", join or create leagues and watch video performances uploaded from the game. On 23 April 2011, "Kinect Sports" players set a new Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous 100m sprint with 10,539 participants. As of April 2011, "Kinect Sports" has sold over three

neg: Karolina Pelendritou record in the 100m breaststroke S12 in 2007. She also competed in the 50m and 100m freestyle S12 winning two more gold medals. In the European Cup “EUROWAVES” in the Czech Republic she brought home yet another gold medal in the 100m breaststroke S12 and shattered the world record once again. In August 2007 she represented Cyprus the 3rd World Championships and Games-IBSA, which were held in Brazil, where she won the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke S12 breaking the world record of the event and gold medal in 100m breaststroke S12 record with a new Games record. In

neg: Taisto Miettinen swimming 2010 and also silver in WC-competition and many Finnish champions in the sprint. Miettinen has reached a total of 10 World Championship titles, 19 World Champion medals, 11 Finnish Championship titles, 19 Finnish Championship medals, 9 foreign countries championships as well as 17 foreign countries championship medals, many number of other titles and records, as well as two world record time (water running 50m and Wife Carrying 100m). Miettinen has also won f.ex. Finnish fear factor super man race. CraveOnline has 2012 chosen Taisto the world`s greatest reigning stupendous unknown champion number 1. He has been also Finnish most

neg: Mickey Bushell Mickey Bushell Michael David Bushell MBE (born 8 June 1990) is a Paralympic gold medalist and personal trainer from Telford, Shropshire, England. He suffers from lumbar sacral spinal agenesis congenital paraplegia and competes in T53 category sprint events. He is the British record holder at 100m and 200, and a European record holder at 100m. Bushell was born on 8 June 1990 at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Due to his health problems doctors initially told his parents that he would probably never be able sit up or mobilise on his own. But Bushell surprised everyone when he started crawling around

neg: Yu Jing the world champion by only 0.02 point margin, and also set the world record in the sprint combined. Yu Jing Yu Jing (; ; born 29 May 1985) is a Chinese long-track speed-skater who specializes in the sprint distances. She became the World Sprint Champion in 2012, setting world records in both the sprint combination and the 500 metres. She held the world record in the sprint combination until Heather Richardson bettered it in January 2013, and the world record in 500 metres until Lee Sang-hwa broke it in November 2013. The time, 36.94 seconds, was the Chinese record until

neg: Southern Caribbean Trinidad & Tobago, but they occasionally send national teams to the Commonwealth Games. Athletics is a well established category of sport in the Southern Caribbean in both the Olympics and the Commonwealth games. Sprinters hailing from the Southern Caribbean include Obadele Thompson of Barbados, who won Bronze at a 100m sprint at the Sydney Olympic Games; Ato Boldon of Trinidad & Tobago, who won Silver at the 100m sprint at the Sydney Olympic Games; Marc Burns of Trinidad & Tobago, who won Bronze at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games; Trinidad's 1976 Montreal Olympics Gold Medallist Hasely Crawford; and Grenada's Alleyne Francique,

neg: Masoud Azizi He ran the distance in a time of 11.45 seconds. Azizi also finished 8th in his first-round heat in the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin in 2009 where he ran alongside Dwain Chambers and African record-holder Olusoji Fasuba. He competed again in the preliminary rounds of the 2011 and 2013 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics. In 2013 Azizi failed doping test taken at 2013 World championships. Athlete was suspended for two years. Masoud Azizi Masoud Azizi (born 2 February 1985) is an Afghan athlete. His personal best time in the 100m sprint is 11.11 seconds, achieved in April

neg: Melinda Gainsford-Taylor 1989 and 1991. At the 1990 World Junior Championships Gainsford reached the semi-finals of both the 100 and 200 metres sprints and assisted the Australian 4 x 100 metres relay team to a new national junior record of 45.01 seconds. Although Gainsford-Taylor became a world champion in 1995, her senior career really began when she won the first of five 100m/200 m sprint doubles at the 1992 Australian National Championships and won selection in the Olympic team, where she made the semi-finals of the 200m. In 1993, she won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships, but later in

neg: Dawn Harper-Nelson own Illinois State Record in the 100m hurdles her Junior year with a time of 13.54. That record time still currently stands Senior year Harper came back and defended her titles winning her third State final in the 100m hurdles with a time of 13.82 and the 300m hurdles. Harper graduated from East St. Louis Sr High School as a 6 time IHSA State Champion. During her time with the UCLA Bruins, Harper won the sprint hurdles at the US Junior Championships and at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. She received All-American honours twice at the 2004 NCAA Women's

neg: Irmgard Bensusan sprints. In the two shorter events she was beaten by the Dutch 'Blade Babe' Marlou van Rhijn, and in the 400 metres she was beaten by a new world record time by France's Marie-Amélie Le Fur. A year later Bensusan took part in the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. In the buildup to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Bensusan took part in her second European Championships, this time in Grosseto, Italy.Bensusan was able to win gold in both the 100m and 200m events. Her times running up to Rio saw Bensusan qualify for all three sprint events

neg: Ahmad Almutairi found that he excelled at the sport. He became classified as a T33 classification athlete and in 2009 he entered his first track and field competition, held in the United Arab Emirates. Amutairi's results at the meet saw him qualify for the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch. At the World Championship Amutairi entered four events, the 100m, 200m, 400m and the javelin throw. All three sprint events were for T34 athletes, with no T33 competitions available. Despite setting a championship record in all three races, Almutairi failed to finish on the podium, being beaten in each event by

neg: Don Wittman include Donovan Bailey's 100m sprint world record at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the infamous brawl between Canada and the Soviet Union at the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. On January 19, 2008, Wittman died as a result of cancer in a Winnipeg hospital surrounded by his family. He was seventy-one years old, survived by his wife, Judy, two daughters, Karen and Kristen and a son, David. Wittman won two ACTRA awards, was named Broadcaster of the Year by Sports Media Canada in 2002, and named to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 2003. He was inducted to

neg: Johannes Nambala the gold medal. The next year, at the Rio Paralympics, Nambala entered three events, the 100 metre (T13), the 200 metre (T13) and the 4 x 100 metre relay (T11-13) He won two medals, placing second in both the T13 100m sprint and the T13 400m sprint. Johannes Nambala Johannes Nambala is a Paralympian athlete from Namibia competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. In 2013 he became the first Namibian to win a gold medal at a IPC Athletics World Championships, when he won the 400m sprint in Lyon. As well as World Championship success Nambala has also won

neg: Andriy Kalyna that finished sixth in the 4 × 100 m medley final. In the 2008 games he repeated his medals, again setting a new world record in winning the 100m breastroke and finishing in silver behind Matthew Cowdrey who also broke the world record but this time added a bronze in the 4 × 100 m medley, he also swam in 50m freestyle finishing sixth, 100m freestyle finishing fourth and 100m butterfly where he finished fifth. Andriy Kalyna Andriy Kalyna is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category SB8 events. Andriy has won medals at two Paralympic games, firstly