“I wasn’t sure,” Thompson said when asked if he thought he had won ... a 200-meter gold at the 2022 world championships and then, in 2023, a breakthrough with golds in the 100, 200 ...

In her Olympic debut, Bullis School and Kentucky University alum Masai Russell won the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter ...

the 100 meters remains one of the more popular events at the Olympics, and the winning times have steadily improved. At the 2012 Games in London, Jamaican Usain Bolt won gold with an Olympic ...

And Torrence, who won three Olympic gold medals, a silver and a bronze and was the world 100-meter champion in 1995, added even more bluntly: “You can’t give away a world record.” ...

About one week after Lyles won the Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash, Hill declared that he could beat Lyles in a race. The gold medalist responded in an interview with Shannon Sharpe and ...

Led by Elaine Thompson-Herah's record-setting performance, Team Jamaica won gold, silver, and bronze in the women's 100-meter final. Katie Ledecky ended her Tokyo 2020 run with a gold in the 800 ...

Jesse Owens won the 100-meter race at the 1936 Olympics in 10.3 seconds. Photograph by ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES A lightweight shoe like the one that Usain Bolt wore to set the world record ...

Usain Bolt wants to run a sub-19 second 200 meters, but that likely won’t happen. (Diego Azubel/European Pressphoto Agency) Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human, won the Olympic 100-meter ...

Fulfilling all the pre-Olympic hype, he won four individual events -- in the 100- and 200-meter freestyle and 100- and 200-meter butterfly -- and three relay races. After his Munich triumph ...