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In the News (Mon 21 May 12)

  
  100 metres at AllExperts
100 m (one hundred metres) is the classic sprints race distance.
A distance of 100 yards (91 m) was often run in the past, but this is now obsolete.
Major 100 m races, such as at the Olympic Games, attract much attention, particularly when the world record is thought to be within reach.
en.allexperts.com /e/0/100_metres.htm   (782 words)

  
 400 metre Pace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The fastest you could run after that would be at the rate of 13.75 seconds per 100 metres (aerobic threshold), i.e., 27.5 seconds for the last 200 metres, which would give you 50 seconds for the 400 metres.
Based on an athletes 100 metre time it may be possible to predict their potential time for 400 metres using optimal speeds of 95% of 100 metres pace for the first 200 metres and 87.5% for the last 200 metres.
Examination of the 100 metres split times for the athletes in the 1988 Olympics 400 metres final indicate that the 1st 100 metres is 25.4% of the total time, the 2nd 100 metres 23.3%, the 3rd 100 metres 24.4% and the final 100 metres 26.9%.
www.brianmac.demon.co.uk /sprints/pred400.htm   (982 words)

  
 100 metres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of 100 metres, see 1 E2 m.
100 m (one hundred metres) is the classic sprints race distance.
The reigning 100 m Olympic champion is often named "the fastest man/woman in the world".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/100_metres   (679 words)

  
 sh: Olympic Greats - Brooke Bond
In the space of a week he easily won the 10.000 metres - captured the 5000 metres in a thrilling sprint finish - and finally romped away with the marathon in his first attempt at the distance.
He triumphed in the 800 metres - an event in which he had only dabbled prior to that year - with a world record of 1 min 43.5 sec - and went on to complete an unprecedented double by winning the 400 metres.
By winning the 100 and 200 metres freestyle - the 100 metres butterfly and contributing to victory in the 4x 100 metres medley relay (with world records in each) - she became the first woman to gain four Olympic swimming titles at one Games.
www.whom.co.uk /squelch/olympic_greats.htm   (3430 words)

  
 Olympics Betting | Womens 100 Metres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Womens Olympic 100 Metres will is an open affair with Marion Jones not competing this time round to defend her Olympic crown.
Debbie Ferguson is not new to the sprint scene, an experienced runner and funnily enough yesterday ran the favourite for this years Athens Olympics 100 Metre crown Christine Arron to 1/100th of a second in Zurich.
The Olympics 100 Metres is not quite a 2 runner race and there are other ladies who are in with a fair shout of lifting the Womens 100 Metre title.
www.gamblog.co.uk /2004/08/olympics-betting-womens-100-metres.htm   (257 words)

  
 Olympics Betting | Mens 100 Metres
Kim Collins will be the liveliest outsider in the 100 metres this year and could well be the one for the EW betting punters.
The Olympic romanticists will be thinking a new 100 metre record will be set under the backdrop of the Athens skyline, but I doubt that will happen personally.
When the 100 metre Final is run Maurice Greene will be a starter and will not be available at a price of 11-4 then.
www.gamblog.co.uk /2004/08/olympics-betting-mens-100-metres.htm   (342 words)

  
 globeandmail.com : globeinvestor.com : Knight Resources Ltd.: West Raglan 2006 Program Results and Prelimianry Plans ...
WR-06-109 was drilled 30 metres up-dip of the intersection in WR-05-100.
WR-06-124 was drilled 30 metres up-dip of the intersection in WR-03-16.
WR-06-127 was drilled on section 443700E, 75 metres west of WR-03-16, to test the western plunge of the intersection in WR-03-16 and to test a coincident moving loop EM anomaly.
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 www.mineweb.net | co_releases Excellon Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Of the nine, six intercepts were of massive and semi-massive sulphides, ranging from 2.4 metres to 9.4 metres in thickness and ranging from 839 to 4,029 grams per tonne (g/t) (26.9 to 128.8 ounces per ton) silver; 3.4 to 20.1 per cent lead, and 3 per cent to 31.6 per cent zinc (see table 1).
Combined sulphide intercepts from all 17 holes indicate that the Guadalupe Manto is a shallow northeast-dipping body, 1.8 metres to 9.4 metres thick, at least 60 by 100 metres in plan and it remains open in several directions.
This discovery hole is approximately 100 metres southeast of the Guadalupe Manto.
www.mineweb.net /co_releases/142341.htm   (896 words)

  
 Canadian Warner takes silver in 100 metres at world junior meet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
BEIJING (CP) - Justyn Warner of Markham, Ont., raced to silver in the men's 100 metres Wednesday, collecting Canada's first medal at the world junior track and field championships.
Gabriella Duclos-Lasnier of Quebec City cleared 3.95 metres in the women's pole vault preliminaries, advancing to Friday's final with the 12th-best jump.
Tezdzhan Naimova of Bulgaria won the women's 100 in 11.28, her country's first gold at the championship.
www.cbc.ca /cp/sports/060816/s081616.html   (359 words)

  
 Devers wins at Olympic Trials
Devers's lean at the finish line enabled her to eke out a 100 metres hurdles victory by two-thousandths of a second.
Edwards, the women's 100 metres runner-up, faces a hearing on Monday on a positive test for a stimulant that could knock her out of next month's Olympic Games in Athens in both the 100 and 200 metres.
She finished fifth in the 100 metres last weekend, but later won the trials' long jump.
www.rediff.com /sports/2004/jul/19oly-ath.htm   (446 words)

  
 Powell wants sole possession of 100 metres world record at Rome meet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Powell set the world record in the 100 metres last year, Gatlin tied it this year, then Powell tied it again June 4 in England.
The 2000 Olympics triple gold medallist, who has struggled with injuries and doping accusations in recent years, clocked her best time since 2002 when she won the 100 metres in Paris with a 10.93 mark.
Tyler Christopher of Chilliwack, B.C., will compete in the 400 metres, Kevin Sullivan of Brantford, Ont., in the 1,500 metres, Victoria's Diane Cummins in the 800 metres and Priscilla Lopes of Whitby, Ont., in the 100-metre hurdles.
www.cbc.ca /cp/sports/060713/s071324.html   (537 words)

  
 IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - The Sport of Athletics - What ...
The race was initially run on grass or "cinders" tracks over the British distance of 100 yards (91.44 m) before Continental influence turned it into 100 metres.
Today's technology permits winning margins of as little as 1 thousandth of a second to be visible on a photofinish print.The introduction of synthetic (all weather) tracks has also helped improve sprint times.
The first world record for 100 yards set on a synthetic track was in 1963 by Bob Hayes (9.1) while Jim Hines recorded a world record 9.9 for 100m at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
www.iaaf.org /theSport/whatisathletics/TrackandField/disc=100/index.html   (294 words)

  
 World 100 metres finals impossible to predict
Marion Jones is absent and the form of her partner Tim Montgomery has dipped precipitously since he broke the world 100 metres record last September.
Defending 1,500 metres champion Hicham El Guerrouj, who is also entered for the 5,000, pulled out of the London grand prix this month because of a back injury.
Turkey's Sureyya Ayhan won each of her four 1,500 metres races from the front last year, including a stunning victory in the European championships final in a time four seconds faster than her own national record.
www.rediff.com /sports/2003/aug/20ath.htm   (607 words)

  
 Campbell takes gold as Powell remains injured
It was however not all bad news for Jamaica in the women’s 200 metres rankings, as Aleen Bailey made her return to the rankings in 13th position.
In the women’s 100 metres, Sherone Simpson dropped one position from fifth to sixth, while Aleen Bailey maintained her ninth position.
In the 100 metres hurdles for women, Brigitte Foster-Hylton maintained her third place, while Delloreen Ennis-London mover up one position from fifth to joint fourth.
www.caymannetnews.com /2005/08/913/jamaican/sport.shtml   (1078 words)

  
 RTÉ Sport: Jones fails to make US 100 metres team
Olympic champion Marion Jones has failed to make the 100 metres team for Athens after she could only finish fifth in the US trials on Saturday.
At the Sydney Games, she won gold in the 100, 200 and 4x400 metres relay and took bronze in the long jump and 4x100 metres relay.
Jones's boyfriend, world 100 metres record holder Tim Montgomery, and Olympic champion Maurice Greene were among those making it through the first two rounds of the men's 100 metres.
www.rte.ie /sport/2004/0711/jonesmarion.html   (589 words)

  
 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS
He records 9.90 seconds for the 100 meters and 19.80 seconds for 200 meters, becoming one of only six men to ever run under 10 for 100 meters and under 20 for 200 meters.
He later accepted an athletic scholarship at the North Carolina College and was a regular on national teams from 1964 to 1972, winning gold in the 200 metres, and three silver medals in the 100 metres and both relays at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico in 1966.
In the same year, he won a bronze in 100 yards, silver in the 220 yards and shared in a world record of three minutes 2.8 seconds in the 4x440 yards relay in Kingston, Jamaica.
www.nalis.gov.tt /Sport\Sports_TTOlympicMedalists.html   (1778 words)

  
 C:\Websites\GD for CM\tigertac.htm
For assembly, a 10 metre distance was kept between vehicles, for "marching", the interval was 25 metres.
Double Row (Doppelreihe) - used for approach marches and assaults; the rows were supposed to be 150 metres apart, with the leading two tanks 100 metres ahead of the last two Tigers.
When the Tigers were forced to operate indepndently, with other tanks in support, the wedge formation was preferred, with a single Tiger at the head of the wedge and medium tanks (PzKpfw III, IV or Vs) forming around it.
members.shaw.ca /grossdeutschland/tigertac.htm   (385 words)

  
 Powell equals 100 metres world record - Sport - smh.com.au
A world-record equalling performance by Jamaican 100 metres runner Asafa Powell brought a fitting end to Zurich's Letzigrund stadium ahead of the ground's planned demolition next week.
Craig Mottram was fifth in the 1500 metres, running 3:33.97, beaten by Kenya's Augustine Choge who won in 3:32.72.
Dibaba used her trademark strong finish to win the women's 5,000 metres in a time of 14 minutes, 45.73 seconds, over two seconds clear of Kenya's Edith Masai.
www.smh.com.au /news/sport/powell-equals-100-metres-world-record/2006/08/19/1155408052645.html   (453 words)

  
 Powell equals men's 100 metres world record - Sport - smh.com.au
Jamaican Asafa Powell has equalled the men's 100 metres world record with a time of 9.77 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix meeting at Gateshead, England.
World 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Tirunesh Dibaba led an Ethiopian sweep of the top four places in the 3,000 metres with her quickest time of the season, eight minutes 42.04 seconds.
Commonwealth 800 metres champion Janeth Jepkosgei ran 1:57.22 for a Kenyan record and the fastest time in the world this year.
www.smh.com.au /news/sport/powell-equals-mens-100-metres-world-record/2006/06/12/1149964437979.html   (1231 words)

  
 AM - Jodie Henry wins gold in 100 metres freestyle
Overnight she won gold in the 100 metres freestyle, and in that event it's been quite a few years since an Australian stood on the dais.
I mean, you're right, when she only got bronze in the 100, I mean, she's been the world record holder in that event for a while, so she was very disappointed in that.
In fact, she almost… there was a touch of fatalism about her, she started to say out loud to TV cameras, "well, perhaps I'm not meant to go gold at these Olympics", which I guess is not a great frame of mind for someone to come into the Olympic Games or into a competition with.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1181130.htm   (1924 words)

  
 eBay - 100 metres, Sewing, Fabric items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 100 metres Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The times for both the male and female athletes in the final of the 1992 Olympics 100 metres indicates that the first 20 metres of the race took approx.
In the example 100 metre training program the effort the athlete is to apply to each session is indicated in terms of a percentage of the athlete's target personal best (TBP).
Flying 30 metres speed test for 100 metres and 200 metres athletes
www.brianmac.demon.co.uk /sprints/tp100.htm   (908 words)

  
 RTÉ Sport: Montgomery to miss Olympic 100 metres
World record holder Tim Montgomery failed to make the US 100 metres team for next month's Olympics when he finished a lowly seventh in the US trials last night.
Securing the other berths were former world indoor 60 metres champion Justin Gatlin, who clocked 9.92 seconds to finish second, and his training partner Shawn Crawford, third in 9.93 seconds.
The 100 metres was Montgomery's only event at the trials and he is unlikely to be selected for the 4x100 metres relay team because of his poor finish.
www.rte.ie /sport/2004/0712/olympics.html   (332 words)

  
 Jones only 100 metres away from jackpot -DAWN - Sport; September 6, 2002
Morroco’s Hicham El Guerrouj, the world champion and world record holder for the men’s 1,500 metres, is another safe bet for a piece of the prize worth 530,000 euros ($528,400) while Mexican Ana Guevara is expected to cruise through with a final win in the women’s 400 metres.
The most vulnerable member of the surviving quartet appears to be world 400 metres hurdles champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic but his chances received a boost when his main rival, European champion Stephane Diagana of France, pulled out on Thursday.
It was in that arena, then located in East Germany, that local favourite Uwe Hohn smashed the 100 metres barrier by throwing the javelin 104.80 metres in 1984.
www.dawn.com /2002/09/06/spt5.htm   (498 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Chariot Encounters Copper Intercepts of 100 Meters at 5.35% Including 42 Metres at 10.54% and 98 Metres ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MJV-6-104 and MJV-06-107 are approximately 50 metres north of MJV-06-039.
Based on the most recent drill results, it is estimated that the high grade core, is at least100 metres wide, 150 metres long and 100 metres thick.
A 1/8 split or approximately 5 kilograms of a two metre sample is submitted to the on-site SGS Lakefield Research ("SGS") preparation facility where samples are crushed to 95% passing 10 mesh and riffle split from which a 250 gram sub-sample is taken.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=122792   (748 words)

  
 Fastest Man & Woman in the World Calculator
In re-igniting the debate over who is the world's fastest human, mathematicians insist track fans throw away traditional notions about the 100 metres.
Inevitably, a world-class 200-metre man covers the second 100 metres of a race faster than the 100-metre world record because he's already flying when he's 100 metres from the finish line.
Johnson's velocity worked out to 10.351 metres per second for the race, or an average speed of 37.267 kilometres an hour.
www.runnersweb.com /running/fastest.html   (892 words)

  
 100 metres in 9.29 sec? In theory, it's possible - Printer Friendly Page - Sports - Telugu Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the 200m, US runner Michael Johnson's world record of 19.32 seconds could be lowered to 18.63 seconds, while the men's 100m hurdles world record of 12.88 held by Chinese runner Liu Xiang could go down by half a second, going by the extreme-value theory.
There's plenty of leeway in the men's javelin where Czech star Jan Zelezny's world record of 98.48m is some eight metres down on the achievable of 106.50m.
In contrast, the women's javelin distance is close to its limit, with only 80 centimetres to improve on the record of 71.70m held by Cuba's Osleidys Menendez.
www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/print.php?storyid=26040   (614 words)

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