Carl Lewis-World Record-100m.Final,Tokyo,1991 World Championships (HQ)

[MrPunk412]

Even though they run faster times today, I still think that this is the greatest 100m race ever.

[jetskilson]

He says that it is Burrell who wins it :) Or am I wrong ?

[5foot11dude]

@jetskilson You're not wrong. The commentator was.

[StefanGentleman]

it's amazing that after 20 years this is still the onyl 100m race ever with 6 men under 10 sec, even if the world record now is 0.28 sec faster. 6 of the 8 runners here are so close.

[TheAngeltoDemon]

@StefanGentleman There is another one on youtube....watch?v=ii5-vJ3Imrg Still amazing though this happened that long ago.

[5foot11dude]

@StefanGentleman That race boasted 3 personal bests, 2 continental records AND the world record; Burrell even beat his old WR and STILL finished as runner-up.

Mind you, the fastest of the 8th-place runners ran 10.02s in Eugene (the race TAtD's comment links to), and before then it was 10.03s in the 2008 Olympic final, which itself is another '6/8 sub-10' race. If you include those than ran less than a hundredth below 10s, the 2009 World final was 7/8 (Darvis Patton the lone >10s in that race).

[5foot11dude]

@5foot11dude It's also worth considering the following wind readings ('+' indicates a tailwind):

1991 World final: +1.2m/s

2008 Olypmic final: 0.0m/s

2009 World final: +0.9m/s

2011 Eugene race: +1.3m/s

[BandWagon1987]

Championship record lower than the World record?? Something wrong there...

[VibeFly]

@BandWagon1987 I could be wrong but from what I remember, I think that at CR can be wind-aided but a WR can not?

[kingkong746]

@BandWagon1987 that championship record was wind aided

[MrBusunglueck]

@kingkong746 but who ran that? 9.80?

[puljacina]

@MrBusunglueck carl

[MrBusunglueck]

@puljacina when was that? there only was 2 wcs before this one. or means cr here stadium record?

[puljacina]

@MrBusunglueck quarterfinal in tokyo

[jimmyg141]

raymond stewart's start was ballistic. one of the best first 60m ive ever seen.

[fifaps3gaming]

0:55 commentator fail

[Nickyootoob]

Coleman calls it wrong again...

You don't happen to have the second round when Lewis ran a wind-assisted 9.80?