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Usain Bolt set a new 100m World record of 9.58 seconds on the second evening of the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The then 22-year-old Jamaican shaved 0.11 second off his Olympic Games record of 9.69 seconds set exactly one year prior in Beijing. His was by far the largest chunk ever sliced from the 100m World Record. Previously, he and Maurice Greene both shaved 0.05 off the standard time to earn the title of World's Fastest Man.
World record for the women’s 100m- Florence Griffith Joyner with a record time of 10.49 in 1988
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith December 21, 1959- September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She was the fastest woman of all time. The records she set in 1988 for both the 100m and 200m still stand. During the late 1980s she became a popular feagure due to both her record setting athleticism and flashy personal style.
Griffith-Joyner was born in California and raised there. She was athletic from a young age and began competing in track meets when she was a child. She continued to compete in track and field while attending California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Griffith-Joyner qualified for the 1980 Olympics while still in college, but she did not compete due to the U.S. boycott.
Four years later, she made her Olympic debut, winning a silver medal in the 200 meter run at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Griffith set a new world record in the 100 meter sprint at the 1988 U.S. Olympic trials. She went on to win three gold medals at the Olympics in 1988. She abruptly retired in February 1989.
Griffith-Joyner remained a pop culture figure after retiring from athletics, thanks to endorsement deals, acting, and design. She died in her sleep in 1998, at the age of 38, as a result of an epileptic seizure.