Usain Bolt’s 9.58 from 2009 is the fastest men’s 100 m ever run, with Tyson Gay and Yohan Blake next at 9.69, per World Athletics’ all-time list as of November 8, 2026. Each sprinter appears once, with his best legal-wind mark. This is about sprinting over 100 m, not other speed records such as the fastest land animals or the fastest marathon times.
Pictured: Usain Bolt, #1 with a 9.58 s world record, in the thumbnail of a video about his 2009 race in Berlin.
| Rank | Athlete | Time (s) | Country | Date | Venue | Wind (m/s) | Age at best | Decade of best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Usain Bolt | 9.58 | Jamaica | Aug 16, 2009 | Berlin, Germany | +0.9 | 22 | 2000s |
| 2 | Tyson Gay | 9.69 | United States | Sep 20, 2009 | Shanghai, China | +2.0 | 27 | 2000s |
| 2 | Yohan Blake | 9.69 | Jamaica | Aug 23, 2012 | Lausanne, Switzerland | -0.1 | 22 | 2010s |
| 4 | Asafa Powell | 9.72 | Jamaica | Sep 2, 2008 | Lausanne, Switzerland | +0.2 | 25 | 2000s |
| 5 | Justin Gatlin | 9.74 | United States | May 15, 2015 | Doha, Qatar | +0.9 | 33 | 2010s |
| 6 | Kishane Thompson | 9.75 | Jamaica | Jun 27, 2025 | Kingston, Jamaica | +0.8 | 23 | 2020s |
| 7 | Christian Coleman | 9.76 | United States | Sep 28, 2019 | Doha, Qatar | +0.6 | 23 | 2010s |
| 7 | Trayvon Bromell | 9.76 | United States | Sep 18, 2021 | Nairobi, Kenya (altitude) | +1.2 | 26 | 2020s |
| 7 | Fred Kerley | 9.76 | United States | Jun 24, 2022 | Eugene, USA | +1.4 | 27 | 2020s |
| 10 | Ferdinand Omanyala | 9.77 | Kenya | Sep 18, 2021 | Nairobi, Kenya (altitude) | +1.2 | 25 | 2020s |
| 10 | Oblique Seville | 9.77 | Jamaica | Sep 14, 2025 | Tokyo, Japan | +0.3 | 24 | 2020s |
| 12 | Nesta Carter | 9.78 | Jamaica | Aug 29, 2010 | Rieti, Italy | +0.9 | 24 | 2010s |
| 13 | Maurice Greene | 9.79 | United States | Jun 16, 1999 | Athens, Greece | +0.1 | 24 | 1990s |
| 13 | Noah Lyles | 9.79 | United States | Aug 4, 2024 | Saint-Denis, France | +1.0 | 27 | 2020s |
| 13 | Kenneth Bednarek | 9.79 | United States | Aug 1, 2025 | Eugene, USA | +1.8 | 26 | 2020s |
| 16 | Steve Mullings | 9.80 | Jamaica | Jun 4, 2011 | Eugene, USA | +1.3 | 28 | 2010s |
| 16 | Marcell Jacobs | 9.80 | Italy | Aug 1, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | +0.1 | 26 | 2020s |
| 18 | Richard Thompson | 9.82 | Trinidad and Tobago | Jun 21, 2014 | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | +1.7 | 29 | 2010s |
| 18 | Akani Simbine | 9.82 | South Africa | Aug 4, 2024 | Saint-Denis, France | +1.0 | 30 | 2020s |
| 18 | Bryan Levell | 9.82 | Jamaica | Jul 23, 2025 | Eisenstadt, Austria | +1.3 | 21 | 2020s |
| 18 | Courtney Lindsey | 9.82 | United States | Aug 1, 2025 | Eugene, USA | +1.8 | 26 | 2020s |
| 22 | Su Bingtian | 9.83 | China | Aug 1, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | +0.9 | 31 | 2020s |
| 22 | Ronnie Baker | 9.83 | United States | Aug 1, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | +0.9 | 27 | 2020s |
| 22 | Zharnel Hughes | 9.83 | Great Britain | Jun 24, 2023 | New York, USA | +1.3 | 27 | 2020s |
| 22 | T’Mars McCallum | 9.83 | United States | Aug 1, 2025 | Eugene, USA | +1.8 | 21 | 2020s |
| 22 | Emmanuel Eseme | 9.83 | Cameroon | Jul 28, 2026 | Glasgow, Scotland | +1.3 | 32 | 2020s |
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Men’s 100 m personal bests, one row per athlete, as of November 8, 2026. The table follows World Athletics’ all-time top list.[1] Only marks with a legal tailwind of +2.0 m/s or less count. Marks that World Athletics has annulled for doping are excluded, such as Ben Johnson’s 9.79 at the 1988 Olympics and Tim Montgomery’s 9.78 in 2002.[3] Marks at altitude (above 1,000 m) are included, and the two Nairobi times are such marks. Ties at the same time share a rank and are ordered by earlier date. The age at best is calculated from each athlete’s date of birth on the list. Active athletes’ bests are as of this date. The list is cut at 9.83, keeping all five athletes tied at that time.
Bolt ran 9.58 (+0.9 m/s) in the final at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, still the world record. It cut 0.11 from his own previous mark of 9.69, set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the largest single reduction in the record.[1][2]
Gay ran 9.69 with a wind of exactly +2.0 m/s, the legal limit, at Shanghai in September 2009. Weeks earlier he had finished second to Bolt in Berlin in 9.71.[1][2] His later 9.75 from the 2013 US Championships was annulled after a failed drug test and does not count.[3]
Blake ran 9.69 (−0.1) at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on August 23, 2012, beating Gay in the race.[1] Video titles describe it as the fastest 100 m in Diamond League history. He ties Gay at 9.69; Gay’s mark is older, so he is listed first.
Powell ran 9.72 (+0.2) at Lausanne on September 2, 2008.[1] He had held the world record earlier, at 9.74 in 2007.
Gatlin ran 9.74 (+0.9) at the Doha Diamond League meeting on May 15, 2015 at age 33.[1] His 9.77 from Doha in 2006 was annulled after a positive test and is not counted.[3]
Thompson ran 9.75 (+0.8) in the final of the Jamaican national trials in Kingston on June 27, 2025, a personal best that put him sixth on the list.[1] He was second at the 2024 Olympics, five thousandths of a second behind Noah Lyles.[4]
Coleman’s 9.76 (+0.6) came in the final of the 2019 World Championships in Doha on September 28, 2019.[1] The video is a Spanish-language recap of that final.
Bromell ran 9.76 (+1.2) at Nairobi on September 18, 2021, tied with Coleman and Fred Kerley. Nairobi lies at altitude, so World Athletics marks the time with an “A”; altitude marks are included on the list.[1] No verified video was available, so an icon is shown.
Kerley ran 9.76 (+1.4) at Eugene on June 24, 2022.[1] He took bronze at the 2024 Olympics in 9.81.[4] No verified video was available, so an icon is shown.
Omanyala, the only Kenyan in the table, ran 9.77 (+1.2) at Nairobi on September 18, 2021, the same date and venue as Bromell’s 9.76, so it is also an altitude mark.[1] He shares the rank with Oblique Seville (Jamaica), who ran 9.77 in Tokyo in 2025. No verified video was available, so an icon is shown.