100m final from olympic games Tokyo 1964

Bob Hayes winning the 100m final in a time of 10.0 seconds, equaling the world record.

Taken from Kon Ichikawa's documentary Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック Tōkyō Orinpikku) from 1965.

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[jesudomine]

And I've just added the subtitles if anyone was missing those. Just press the CC-button to make them appear.

[lanelsonconsulting]

Hey, wouldn't this race of 1964 be a 100 yard dash - versus the 100 meters of today? If I recall from my 70's track days, the conversion is about .9 seconds. If so, you'd have to add that to Hayes' time for an accurate comp of today's sprinters. DOES anybody know this for sure? Maybe the Olympics, being international, already used meters.. Just wondering........

[jesudomine]

@lanelsonconsulting They have never ran anything but 100 meters in the Olympics.

[use2slam2]

funny all these Chris Johnson fans and Desean Jackson fans stating how fast they are

take a look at 2nd place Cuba's Enrique Figueroa he ran 10.2 and on this peice of shit dirt

track look by how much he was beaten by hayes on this same shit dirt track and in an even shittier chewed up lane. Johnson's best 100m is 10.34(and on todays fast modern surface tracks)hayes in his prime would EMBARRESS Jobnhson so bad and i mean

B-A-D !!!

[AllanWellsfanclub]

just devastating. My favourite 100 to watch.

[fiscusd]

@pbrick6301 That is a race I would have paid real money to see! I'll throw you a tidbit about Homer Jones, he played in the first Monday Night Football game, by that time he had been traded to the Browns, and in that game he returned a kickoff for a TD. Only multiple knee injuries kept him from having a HOF career.

[pbrick6301]

@fiscusd i wish they could of raced at halftime or something. i am amazed that anybody else ever heard of homer jones. he is kind of a forgotten man. and yes you are probably right. look how hayes powers thru the track.

[fiscusd]

@fear123wz He's speaking French...he said "What POWER, pity he did not continue sprinting in MEXICO (Olympics), he would have probably set another record..UNBEATABLE! I remember he stopped sprinting at age 21!"

[fiscusd]

@pbrick6301 With all due respect to the great Homer Jones, He would be the first to tell you that no one was as fast as Bob Hayes. Jones was 6'2" tall, 225 lbs, which was as big as most TE's of the time, and he was extremely tough to bring down. He was reported to have run the 100 yard dash in 9.2 (though I have not been able to verify it).

[StaubachComebach]

@fiscusd You have stated esoteric knowledge that only true arfficcidados of spriting know. It is qiute simply stunning to behold then and now

StauBachComeBach

[ronpaulforpresident6]

hayes would embarrass Bolt if Bolt had to run on this 1964 cinder dirt track

[fiscusd]

We'll never know with certainty how fast Bob Hayes could run the 100 in. He ran as fast as he needed to, the closer the race the faster he ran. That is what makes his anchor leg of the 4x100 meters race in the 1964 olympics so remarkable. When he got the baton, the USA team was way behind, and he simply launched himself like a missle and blew everyone's doors off. I mean he ran his split in 8.6 on a cinder track for pete's sake. That is just crazy fast.

[quadbravo]

@AllanWellsfanclub Agreed. Can only imagine what the time would have been if run on a modern day track with modern spikes.

[quadbravo]

@lanelsonconsulting it was 100 meters for sure and he was running on cinder/gravel. By any yardstick it's considered one of the fastest 100m ever run given the conditions.