Tim Montgomery's 9.78 seconds 100m Run

When

14th September, 2002

Where

Paris, France

What

The men's 100m world record holds a unique place in sport as its holder can claim not only to be the best at his discipline, but the fastest man on earth. Tim Montgomery's 9.78s run in Paris raised the bar for sprinting as he became not only the fastest man on earth but also the first to go faster than Ben Johnson's drug aided effort 14 years previously.