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Countries with the Fastest 100 Meter Sprinters

Name the countries with the most sprinters who have run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds.
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Through 13 August 2021
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First submittedJuly 26, 2016
Times taken49,622
Average score71.4%
Rating4.38
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Country
62
9.69
United States
19
9.58
Jamaica
10
9.85
Nigeria
10
9.87
United Kingdom
6
9.82
Trinidad and Tobago
5
9.84
South Africa
4
9.84
Canada
TenThousand
+1
Level 76
Jul 26, 2016
Here's the quiz to name the eight sub-10-second world record holders.
Tramp
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Level 76
Jul 31, 2016
As somebody who knows very little about athletics/the olympics and cares little about them, I have to admit, I'm surprised that Kenya isn't there. I always thought they dominated running, or maybe it's just long distance running?
interopia
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Level 85
Jul 31, 2016
i thought so too
angrobper14
+24
Level 84
Aug 17, 2016
Indeed, Kenyan runners shine in long distances, almost as Jamaicans do in sprint.
jajaco2017
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Level 57
Jan 17, 2017
Kenya has long distance runners
Malbaby
+5
Level 71
Aug 17, 2016
Different sort of build usually, 'Fast Twitch' muscles are big and bulbous and tend to fatigue faster and are built for sprinting, whereas 'Slow Twitch' muscles are longer and slender and enable long-endurance distance running. That is why the great Kenyan long-distance runners are slight of build and carry no excess weight in big bulbous muscles. Usain Bolt is a one-off individual in that he is tall and angular compared to e.g. Gay, Powell, Blake etc. who are very muscular. That is also why Usain takes a little while to get going in the 100m compared to Gatlin for instance but why he is also so fast in the 200m and will probably be so in 400m etc. if and when he decides to take on those distances.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Aug 6, 2019
To be fair, Olympic long distance runners are extremely fast in the short distance as well. Mo Farah can run the final lap of a 10000 meter race in under 51 seconds.
richiesyxx
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Level 72
Aug 25, 2021
The long-distance advantage for most of the East African runners comes partially from a small evolutionary difference. Because much of Ethiopia/Kenya consists of high plateaus, there is a tendency towards larger lung capacity and a higher tolerance of lower oxygen concentration, which is a massive natural advantage.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 17, 2016
No Kenya or Ethiopia? I guess they are more distance runners, not sprinters?
priebe66
+3
Level 39
Aug 19, 2016
Definitely. Sprinting seems to have a high concentration of people from the Caribbean, as distance running tends to pull in more Africans.
BabaManda
+2
Level 32
Aug 17, 2016
What about Namibia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Fredericks

TangoMike
+7
Level 50
Aug 17, 2016
What about them?

Is Frankie Fredericks four people?

kalbahamut
+9
Level 82
Aug 17, 2016
He's as fast as ten fast men!
cpgatbyu
+4
Level 85
Aug 17, 2016
Frankie ran under 10 seconds 27 times. The 4 sub-10-second runners from Namibia's much larger neighbor South Africa ran under 10 seconds a total of 7 times combined. Can Namibia help it if it concentrated all its talent into one man? Besides, how many of these other runners have raced a cheetah? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/9d/3d/92/9d3d926b144cc36024ce418a85e1df4d.jpg
ammo55
+1
Level 47
Aug 17, 2016
Christie was from Great Britain.
Gouri
+2
Level 20
Nov 10, 2016
USAIN BOLT is my all time favourite. I also loves to play quizzes based on him.
Gio90
+2
Level 32
Jan 3, 2018
7/7 Big up T&T!
PastQuin8Chldren
+1
Level 46
Jan 4, 2018
LOL I THOUGHT THIS WAS SWIMMING!!
KoiFish
+3
Level 76
Feb 17, 2021
Sub 10 second 100m swimming... Caeleb Dressel who? hahaha
kogatora
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Level 93
Aug 22, 2018
These figures naturally need updating each year, which as of Aug 2018 are USA on 55, Jamaica 20, UK 10, Nigeria 8 still (which includes a Portuguese/Nigerian runner), Trinidad 6, South Africa 5 and Canada 4. Honourable mention should go to France with 3 and China, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Qatar, St Kitts, Turkey and Zimbabwe all with 2, and Antigua, Australia, Bahamas, Cuba, Italy, Japan, Namibia, Netherland (Antilles), Norway and Oman all with 1 runner. Also it seems common that runners are born in Jamaica and compete for another team (including Linford Christie (UK), and Kemar Hyman who ran for a Cayman Islands team). If you take population size into account, it suggests Jamaica has more sprinters per person than anywhere else - 1 per 145,000 people. However from the full list, Saint Kitts has had 2 sub-10 runners, Antigua & Barbuda had 1 sub-10 runner which gives them 1 top sprinter per 28,000 and 103,000 people respectively. So perhaps those two are the best places to find sprinters.
rocamorar
+1
Level 78
Aug 6, 2019
A per capita test would render far more interesting results.
Scaro88
+1
Level 78
Aug 6, 2019
In this list the UK seems to be ranked lower than Nigeria on fastest time despite having more sub-10 runners. Then the USA is ahead of Jamaica despite having a slower fastest time therefore ranking them on total sub-10 runners. Why is the quiz maker using different criteria to rank the countries at different points in the list?
TWM03
+1
Level 70
Aug 25, 2021
I don't know if the quiz has changed since this comment but the list is now sorted first by number and then by best time (with lower times being higher).
mjb1484
+1
Level 68
Aug 6, 2019
First time I read the description I thought this was a 10 second quiz and thought, "just because they have to run fast, doesn't mean we have to guess that fast. This is ridiculous." Thankfully I was wrong.
ddddan
+1
Level 81
Aug 7, 2019
What is the sort order here? It seems to be neither # of runners, best time, or alphabetical order.
Luni
+2
Level 85
Jun 16, 2020
Should you swap the third and fourth answers, so it would be arranged by Highest # to lowest?
Rhysjones12
+1
Level 19
Jun 30, 2020
i finished this quiz in 24 seconds having 7/7
RSGenius25
+1
Level 36
Mar 24, 2021
5 - pretty good by my standards!!
Badeghut
+1
Level 70
Aug 25, 2021
I could be wrong but I think Andre De Grasse ran a 9.74 at the Diamond League in Eugene a few weeks ago.
rjfrommtl
+1
Level 78
Aug 30, 2021
That was 'wind assisted', so doesn't count towards official records. He has actually recorded 9.69 'wind assisted' in Stockholm, but his official (non wind assisted) best is 9.89.
NMI
+1
Level 88
Aug 25, 2021
Hi Quizmaster. I’d like to give a you a special vote of thanks for including the names of the runners in the answer section. That saves me having to Google them. 😊
Jezilly
+2
Level 77
Aug 27, 2021
Seems like speaking English makes you run faster.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 78
Feb 9, 2022
Yeah, that must be the reason ;)
springb
+1
Level 55
Nov 19, 2022
Time to add Jacobs of Italy? He did a 9.80 in Tokyo.
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