OlympicTalk · Aug 31, 2018
Christian Coleman runs world’s fastest 100m in three years
Christian Coleman sprinted to take something at the Diamond League final in Brussels. He got it.
The world’s best sprinter since Usain Bolt‘s retirement ran the world’s fastest 100m in three years, 9.79 seconds into a headwind on Friday night. Adjusting for wind and altitude, it may have been the best sprint ever outside of the Bolt era.
“Mine,” Coleman repeated in a head-shaking, chest-thumping, finger-pointing celebration.
Coleman, a Rio Olympic 4x100m prelim runner, capped a roller-coaster season following his breakout 2017, when he ran a 40-yard dash one tenth faster than the NFL Combine record and beat Bolt to a 100m silver medal at the world championships behind Justin Gatlin.