Fastest 100m in the past 10 years: Kishane Thompson tops elite list as Noah Lyles is missing

The world’s fastest men in the 100m event in the past 10 years is dominated by Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson and American speedsters. Surprisingly, Olympic champion Noah Lyles doesn’t make the list.

Jamaican champion Kishane Thompson currently stands tall on the list of the fastest 100m men in the past ten years, which surprisingly sees Olympic champion Noah Lyles not make the elite league.

In a recent stat released by the World Athletics, Thompson occupies the top position with his 100m national title-winning time of 9.75s at the Jamaican trials, making him the sixth fastest man in history.

The 23-year-old also takes the second position with a blistering 9.77s clocked at the Jamaican Olympic trials last year to book his spot at his maiden Olympics in Paris, where he went on to narrowly claim the silver medal behind Lyles, despite both clocking the same time of 9.79s.

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Third on the list is veteran American sprinter Fred Kerley with 9.76s set to win the 100m world title in 2022, and he also takes the fourth spot at 9.77s.

Former world indoor champion Trayvon Bromell is fifth and sixth on the list with respective times of 9.76s and 9.77s in 2021, as Africa’s fastest man in history, Ferdinand Omanyala is seventh with 9.77s clocked in 2021.

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Christian Coleman sits eighth with 9.76s ran to win the world title in 2019, while Justin Gatlin takes the ninth and tenth positions with 9.77s and 9.75s in 2015.

Noteworthy is that Thompson’s 9.75s matched Gatlin’s remarkable time, who was the last to run that fast back in June 4, 2015.

This shows the great trajectory the Jamaican is moving and now stands as the favourite to break the sub-9.70s mark or get close to Usain Bolt’s world record of 9.58s.

For Lyles, he now understands the shape he needs to attain if he is to successfully defend his world title in Tokyo this September.

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