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Top 15 Fastest Finishers in 100m Sprinting History

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Sprint Speed Media analyzes the fastest final forty meters in history, highlighting elite sprinters with exceptional closing speed.

Split times compiled by: instagram.com/suubataii_sports/ Credit to him for the analysis This video shows the fastest finishers in the history of the 100m which includes the sprinters that have covered the final 40m in 3.40 seconds or less, featuring Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell, Noah Lyles and more Yohan Blake split time correction: 6.33+3.36=9.69 Song: Feint DnB - One Thousand Dreams

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What commenters say. Recommended to illustrate Usain Bolt's dominant closing speed and compare the finishing splits of history's fastest sprinters.

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Watch this and realize that Bolt also had one of the best *first* halfs of a 100m race in history. Let alone his insane closing speed. Very few sprinters cover the last 40m in sub 3.4 (fewer than 15 in the history of sprinting). We usually call them fast finishers. Bolt is a *3.2* guy. The closest to him in finishing speed was Tyson Gay in 3.32 and his first half is significantly slower (6.39 vs 6.31). Usually a sprinter specializes in the first half or the back half of the race. Bolt somehow managed to be legendary in both. Sprinters like Coleman and Su can match him in the start but can't close in under 3.40 let alone sub 3.30 (so their limit is the 9.7s). And guys like Gay and Blake c…
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