Saturday was a day to recollect for Canada’s Jerome Blakewho, for the primary time ever, broke the elusive 10-second barrier within the 100m–turning into the sixth Canadian in historical past to take action. The breakthrough race passed off on the Worldwide Anhalt Assembly Dessau at Paul Greifzu Stadium in Germany.
Blake set a brand new meet document of 9.97 seconds, taking a dominant win over South Africa’s Information Sides (10.03) and Nigeria’s Favour Ashe (10.08).
The efficiency marks the quickest time by a Canadian this 12 months and the primary underneath 10 seconds.
Blake ran his former private better of 10.00 in Might 2022 and matched it once more lower than two months later. However this season, the 29-year-old has been on a tear. He opened his out of doors season with a ten.00 on the Pepsi Florida Relays, however the wind studying of +2.1 m/s exceeded the authorized restrict. He’s additionally contemporary off a ten.09-second efficiency on the Paavo Nurmi Video games final Tuesday. Now, he’s formally confirmed he’s in his greatest type but.
“Simply while you suppose the weekend couldn’t get any higher, this occurred,” Blake wrote on Fb. “New PB (of) 9.97. Couldn’t have accomplished this with out the crew I’ve in my nook–very grateful for you all. Onwards and upwards.”
Blake was born in Buff Bay, Jamaica; his household moved to Kelowna, B.C., when he was 18, and he formally grew to become a Canadian citizen at 23. Since then, he’s change into a two-time Olympian and a reliable member of Group Canada’s 4x100m relay squad–which raced to Olympic gold final August in Paris.
Canada’s high 100m listing
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- Donovan Bailey: 9.84 (1996)
- Bruny Surin: 9.84 (1999)
- Others de grass: 9.89 (2021)
- Ben Johnson: 9.95 (1986)
- Aaron Brown: 9.96 (2016)
- Jerome Blake: 9.97 (2025)
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