100M WORLD RECORD - 9.27 Seconds || The Human Limit!

After reading an article in Runner's World about the potential of human speed, I decided to look a little closer at when a human could feasibly run 9.27 seconds for 100 meters.

Currently, the world record is 9.58 seconds run by Usain Bolt from the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

Let me know what you think will be the year when this time will be run.

Thanks for watching! Best of running to you!

[chrism]

Nobody is going to run 9.27 by 2025. That's ridiculous.
Nobody is going to run anything under 9.50 in the next 15 years at the very least. Maybe ever.
World record improvements don't stay linear forever.
Bolt was a once-every-one-hundred-years athlete and you won't see anyone like him for a while.

[georgesealy]

If the human physical limit is truly 9.27 seconds, then it would be approached asymptotically. That is, by a curved line that would get closer and closer to that limiting number. That would push out the year when it could be approached well into the 2100s and maybe the 2200s. It's going to take longer and longer to have such a unique athlete that is capable of running that fast. The next Bolt might be 30 years in the future, for example. He would 'merely' break 9.58. And then there would have to be another Bolt after him and so on as the record drops ever more slowly.

[shanebrownlee]

I think an inverse logarithmic graph would be more suitable for something like this. Point being, the closer to that theoretical 9.27 runners get, the slower progress will be due to so many different factors having to be perfected.

[veda]

It’s gonna be none other than Usain Bolts kid himself 🙌🏼

[simiscorpio]

By this logic Mike Powell's long jump record should have been broken long ago. It's been 29 years now and since then no one has been able to jump 8.95m or beyond.

[piotrwolski]

Usain Bolt would run 9.4 seconds if he had a perfect race. He said it himself.

[norulazman]

Theres gonna be a true legend in the making breaking all 100, 200 and 400 WR in a single tournament. Wait for it.

[juggaquid]

Really. You use a linear graph? This analysis is so wrong. You are saying eventually we will get to 0 secs lol

[dingo]

That graph, with that sharp drop to the most recent record shows just how much af a freak of nature Usain Bolt is.

[joedian]

I believe it is not impossible to finish a 100m sprint in 9.27 seconds but the athletes's career wouldn't be that long. Bolt retired much earlier compared to other record holders is a very good example to prove my point. Muscle strains within sub 10 is already bad enough, imagine running within 9.8 to 9.7 for most of the times. For Bolt case, he sometimes hit 9.6. So yeah, teachnique and all other good stuff can improve the sprint. But can a human body really keep up with the thing you want it to do?

[xJopeRz]

ive just looked at the 2 best 100m runs from usain in the 100m, in the Beijing race at 7.9 seconds he begins to break his form and celebrate he finishes the race with exactly 7 strides, on his world record run, with exactly 7.9 seconds he completes the race with only 6 strides. i think its fair to say if in beijing he continued to power through the final 15-30 metres, he wouldve achieved low 9.5 or even high 9.4... incredible.

[kebleward]

I like his analysis. Good attempt at predicting the expected time it will take to run the theoretical 9.27. However, in 1988 after Ben Johnson ran 9.79, someone did a similar study and determined the fastest a human can run is 9.58. Well....we are there now. The current WR is 9.58 and it could have been lower if Bolt ran through the line when he ran that 9.69 in 2008.

[chrisnauta]

The absolute quickest time will be more like 9.4 to 9.45 seconds. Usain Bolt was so close to breaking the bones in his feet when he achieved 9.58. The human limit before bone breakage is so close now. We simply cannot generate anymore force than 1100 pounds or our bones simply crush under that force. If we give a runner like Bolt an absolutely perfect start he could do sub 9.48 but not a whole lot better. We are basically at the human limit for speed right now.

[UnleashedTraining]

I actually think it can lower. But to run the absolute fastest possible time, we will need essentially compete perfection. You'll need the precise anatomical structure that is perfect for sprint speed. You'll also need someone with genes that are perfectly specialised for sprint speed, such as an ideal balance of muscle fibre types, ACTN-3 gene etc. This would need to be combined with the most effective possible training. I'm a sprint coach and I have dealt with many elite athletes and top level coaches, and I can tell you that none of us have training methods that are perfect as such. Having said that, the training methods used are the best techniques known and available. But obviously the best we have does not mean the absolute best, most ideal training programme possible. The ideal genes and perfect anatomy not only needs to exist. That person needs to first of all be interested in sprinting and then identified and placed into the right circumstances to compete against other elite athletes. I guarantee you that there are people living right now that are a good deal more suited to sprinting than even Bolt. It's just that they're not training for it and have not entertained the idea of racing. A lot of factors need to align to make it all fall into place. Then of course, looking at trends, we need to consider the law of diminishing returns, which is more or less infinite. To the point where improvements on records take a compounded duration to occur. Let's say we do find another Bolt in 15 years. Perhaps he will break the record, most likely by a very tiny margin. Let's say 9.55 seconds. The likelihood of another Bolt after him takes longer to find because he needs to be ever so slightly better than the last guy, not just the same. Another 3 or 4 Bolts down the line could be 150 years just to break into the 9.4 range. Chipping that down to 9.3 and then 9.2 would take even longer. And by that time will people even be training to sprint like that? Gene editing and technology is going to make it less appealing to just play the genetic and coaching lottery.

[harikrishnanchandramohan]

Usain's Charisma played a very important role. Otherwise the media would have shown him like a boy from poor family breaks world record. Many champions lost their recognition just because media portrayed them in a patronizing way. But Usain was smart to get the politics and marketed himself to become a brand.

[realroy]

Easy! I can run 100 meters in like 5 minutes without a sweat.

[jhrockgod]

It's crazy to know that one day an athlete will run so fast that there record will never ever be broken forever.

[GrizzleyBearington]

I can run 9.08 seconds and I’m only 2 years old 💪🏻

Edit: I had no idea so many people would take this comment seriously lmao
Edit 2: It’s a joke, guys.

[arealmench]

I don't know when anyone will run 9 .27 but on March, 16, 2032 a 26 year old American named Dwight Levant will break Usain Bolts record with a time of 9 .51. Bolts held the record for 23 years.

[petertard]

Bolt, if he had run the perfect race, with a really good start, and continuing to run right through the line, could perhaps have run 9.37 sec for the 100m, but he never really had to perfect his technique and experience perfect conditions.