For You Track and Field Fans

[Matthew328]

Here's video of Fort Worth Wyatt's national record 39.76 in the 4x100 relay at the state track meet in 1998..been looking for this for a while now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUEUaUWYCc

[nobogey72]

I was there, and it was hard to believe that they ran that time out of lane 1.

[bluecat]

I was at the state meet in 1977 and watched Carl Williams out of West Columbia run a 9.199 100 yd dash.
They rounded it off to a 9.2 flat.
Johnny Lam Jones came out of the stands and bowed down to him because he had just shattered his meet record.
Classic!

[44INAROW]

Dang, that last exchange scared me lol............. those boys were smoking fast....

[wedo]

I was at the state meet in 1977 and watched Carl Williams out of West Columbia run a 9.199 100 yd dash.
They rounded it off to a 9.2 flat.
Johnny Lam Jones came out of the stands and bowed down to him because he had just shattered his meet record.
Classic!


9.2??? Usain Bolt's world record isn't even that fast lol

[Matthew328]

9.2??? Usain Bolt's world record isn't even that fast lol

100 yards is less than 100 meters

[bluecat]

100 yards is less than 100 meters
You are correct, a 100 meters is just shy of 109 yds. So lets put in these terms a 9.3 100 yds equates to a 10.0 ,100 meter time.
Williams was just a little faster than that, He was on the 4x100m relay in the Goodwill games in the early 80"s.

[wedo]

100 yards is less than 100 meters


aahhh, ok gotcha. I guess I didn't realize the date in the thread, back when they use to run the 100yd