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What's the Fastest 100 Meter Dash a Human Can Run?

What's the Fastest 100 Meter Dash a Human Can Run?

What's the Fastest 100 Meter Dash a Human Can Run?

More than 130 years ago, at the first Olympic Games in Athens, Boston University law student Thomas Burke took his mark at the 100-meter dash not in a standing position, but a crouch—what was then considered an unusual starting stance.

But far more unusual, by today's standards, was his gold-medal winning time of 12 seconds flat.

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