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unusual facts about 100m



Annabelle Lewis

She competes abroad regularly now, and is trained by Roger Walters, known by some as the trainer for Sara McGreavy who was an annually top 10 100m hurdler from 2005-2011.

Anson Henry

Henry still remains the Washington State University record holder in the 60m (6.65), 100m (10.04w, 10.17) and 200m (20.52).

Ashtead

Elevations range from the south west crest of the village at 100m AOD (above mean sea level) to 45m AOD at the Leatherhead border outflow of The Rye that rises at a pond at Little Park Farm, Farm Lane, Ashtead.

Cecil Healy

Cecil Patrick Healy (28 November 1881 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales – 29 August 1918 in Somme, France) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1900s and 1910s, who won silver in the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Charles Rozoy

Charles Rozoy (born in Chenôve on 4 March 1987) is a Paralympic swimmer of France who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the men's S8 100m butterfly.

Chen Huijia

2009 Asian Swimming Championships - 1st 50m breast, 1st 100m breast, 4th 200 breast

Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Shaquille Vance, 2012 U.S. Paralympic National Championship, gold medal (100m), silver medal (200m)

Clifford Sibusiso Mamba

Mamba competed for Swaziland at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 100m and 200 m races.

Cornwall, Prince Edward Island

Jared Connaughton, Canadian Sprinter, 2005 Canada Games gold medalist 100m & 200m

Craig Pickering

3 August 2008 Craig and Simeon were featured in a BBC documentary called Sprint along with other 100m hopefuls Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Wade Bennett-Jackson.

Dianne Barr

At the 1992 Summer Paralympic Games, Barr won bronze in the 100m Backstroke S10.

Dina Asher-Smith

Dina Asher Smith (born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter who represents Blackheath and Bromley A.C. She is the 2013 European Junior Champion at 200 m and won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow as a member of the British 4 x 100m relay team.

She was the youngest athlete selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Squad for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and along with team mates Annabelle Lewis, Ashleigh Nelson and Hayley Jones, won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100m relay.

Downtown Crossing

In 2006, Vornado Realty Trust announced the purchase of the former Filenes site for $100m.

Échenevex

The Large Hadron Collider passes under Échenevex, about 100m below the surface.

Esther Roth-Shahamorov

Her time of 12.93 seconds in 100m hurdles, set in Berlin shortly after the 1976 Summer Olympics, held as a national record for 26 years, until it was broken by Irina Lenskiy in 2002.

Fabrice Coiffic

In 2010, Coiffic participated at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics in Nairobi, Kenya, where he only reached the semifinal in both the 100m and 200m events with a time of 10.51 and 21.43.

Ferry Field

In 1935 Ohio State sprinter Jesse Owens set world records in the 220 yard dash, the 200 meter dash, the 220 yard low hurdles, the 200 meter low hurdles, and the long jump, and tied the world record in the 100 yard dash.

Geology of Gloucestershire

The Inferior Oolite, capping the main north-west facing escarpment, comprises up to 100m of mainly oolitic limestones including the Cheltenham freestone - quarried most extensively at Leckhampton and used widely in the distinctive Regency architecture of Cheltenham.

Grace Loh

Loh recently won the women's 100m Backstroke Event at the 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championship in Monterrey, Mexico.

Grant Stoelwinder

Grant is also coach for the current World's Fastest 50m & 100m swimmer, Eamon Sullivan.

Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan

He has one of the larger car collections in the world at between 200 to 400 cars and trucks, of which some are stored at the Emirates National Auto Museum, a 100m x 100m pyramid that he purpose built to display the vehicles.

I'm a Cuckoo

The video for "I'm a Cuckoo" features Scottish Olympic 100m gold medallist Allan Wells as a running coach and lead singer, Stuart Murdoch, as an aspiring runner.

Indrek Sei

Sei won the bronze medal in the 100m Individual Medley at the European Sprint Swimming Championships 1991 in Gelsenkirchen.

Katy Sexton

In the Long Course World Championships in Fukuoka Katy made the semi finals in both the 100m and 200m backstroke.

Kurna

Qurna is an abandoned village about 100m to the east of the Temple of Seti I. Until the early 19th century the community included at least parts of the Temple of Seti I. Several travellers, including Richard Pococke or Sonnini de Manoncourt even name a Sheikh of Qurna.

MBNA

Although figures were never released, various media outlets including newspapers in Watford where Loans.co.uk head office is based reported the deal made founders David Cowham and Steve Hayes worth £100m.

Mitchell Watt

As a 13 year old he competed in the GPS 100m, 200m, 400m relay, 100m relay, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put and discus, winning all of his events bar and discus with a respectable 4th.

Nelson Skalbania

Purchased over a span of 10 years: 31 different Eaton's properties/stores across Canada from Victoria, B.C. to Moncton, N.B. The larger ones included a downtown Vancouver Store, (redeveloped, constructed $100M project downtown Winnipeg catalogue store, redeveloped into $50M retail complex, etc.)

Nicholas Hough

Nick won the David Baxter memorial 100m in a time of 10.62s, half a second quicker than the fastest men in football, Lachie Turner, John Grant and Jarryd Hayne, the fastest of whom clocked 11.10s on the night.

Northgate Hall

It was originally built as a Primitive Methodist Church, but with Methodist Union in 1932 it was no longer needed for this purpose, as the Wesleyan Wesley Memorial Church is about 100m away;

Nutrilite

As spokespersons for the brand, Nutrilite has signed 2008 Olympic gold medalist (4 x 100m relay) Asafa Powell of Jamaica; former 110m men's hurdles world record holder Liu Xiang of China; 2008 Olympic gold and bronze track and field medalist Sanya Richards, FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho; and 2008 Olympic silver medalist in pole vault, Jenn Stuczynski.

Paul Vallely

Vallely ghost-wrote Geldof's autobiography, Is That It? in 1985 and travelled with Bob Geldof across Africa to decide how to spend the £100m raised by Live Aid and was involved in the organisation of Live 8.

Protea compacta

Its natural habitat is a narrow region of the south western Cape Province, and it occurs at altitudes less than 100m above sea level, in poor, sandy, generally highly leached acidic soils.

RBC Olympians

Perdita Felicien, 100m hurdles, Gold Medal: 2003 World Championships, Silver Medal: 2007 World Championships

Rochester, Pennsylvania

Lauryn Williams, Olympic gold medalist (4x100m relay) and Olympic silver medalist (100m)

Ryan Mitchell

After Australia's only 100m breaststroker Phil Rogers put in a poor performance in the individual event, Australian head coach Don Talbot dropped Rogers and Mitchell swam in the heats of the 4x100m medley relay, even though he was not originally selected in the 100m breaststroke.

Sophia Batchelor

She competed at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games where she won a gold medal in the women's 100m butterfly with a 58.63 time in the 6th Lane just ahead Racheal Kelly, Kelly was slower with 1.13 time.

Sundsvalls SS

The most famous swimmers is Olympic gold medalist on 100m Butterfly Lars Frölander and Olympic bronze medalist Anna-Karin Kammerling.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100m Backstroke event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Friday, July 21, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 100 metre butterfly

The men's 100m Butterfly event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Friday, July 21, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The Men's 100m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Friday, July 21, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 100 metre butterfly

The women's 100m Butterfly event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Wednesday, Saturday 22, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The Women's 100m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.

Yash Daryanani

Daryanani trained with the 1988 Olympics 100m butterfly gold medallist Anthony Ne­sty’s coach Kenneth MacDonald, and made waves in international meets as a proficient swimmer representing Suriname.


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