Thanks for the info!
nah! i’m a college athlete 
I got regionals and ncaa champs coming up though.
Ok young man. AFTER you get your degree I want see some good pro races out of you… BTW are There are local guys running 10.3 who are allowed to run…
Good luck!
Does taking money for running for make you ineligible for NCAA? Good luck this year and I hope you go under 10!
JUST ADDING THE OFFICIAL IAAF-ACCEPTED VERSION OF EVENTS TO THIS THREAD, FOR THE RECORD. 
Sunday, 17 May 2009 Bolt runs 14.35 sec for 150m; covers 50m-150m in 8.70 sec!
Usain Bolt greets fans after his run at BUPA Great City Games 150m (Getty Images)
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Manchester, UK - Jamaica’s multiple Olympic champion and World record holder Usain Bolt added yet another win to his growing career tally after racing to victory in this evening’s BUPA Great City Games 150 metre sprint on a track laid in the centre of this northern English city.
The event was staged by the organisers of today’s BUPA Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, which was run this morning - see ‘Related Content’ to the right under photograph for earlier story.
The 22-year-old Bolt clocked 14.35 seconds for the 150m straight dash, smashing the previous world’s best.
IAAF media consultant and BBC statistician Mark Butler confirms that the previous fastest legal time in a 150m race was 14.8 sec by 1980 Olympic 200m champion Pietro Mennea of Italy who ran his time in Cassino, Italy on 22 May 1983.
However, a biomechanical study carried out in the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan, timed World champion Tyson Gay (USA) over 150m in his 200m final victory at 14.75 sec (Bolt 14.85) on 30 August 2007. That is the fastest legal timing on record, though Linford Christie (GBR) did clock 14.74windy (+3.9) in Sheffield on 4 September 1994.
But we know that Michael Johnson (USA) and Bolt would have been much faster during their World 200m records, as 19.30 is 14.475 pace for 150m.
So albeit over a straight run rather than around a bend, Bolt’s time today in Manchester is by far the quickest time ever run for 150m.
The Jamaican, who was only passed fit on Monday (11) after a recent car crash, was given a bye into the final.
Bolt covered the first 100m in 9.91 sec, which although well short of his record breaking 9.69 in Beijing was still impressive on a very damp temporary track constructed on Manchester’s Deansgate in the city’s centre.
Even better was his speed over what is termed “the flying 100” - from 50-150m - which he covered in just 8.70 sec!
“It is one more to the tally,” said Bolt about his victory, “I thought I would just go out there and run a good time. I’m not in the best shape and I still have a lot of work to do but I am getting there.”
Debbie McKenzie Ferguson, of the Bahamas, won the women’s race in 16.54 ahead of Olympic and World 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu, who finished in 17.10.
Carl Markham - PA Sport - and Mark Butler for the IAAF
RESULTS
Men
100m wind: 0.1; 150m wind: 1.1
1, Usain Bolt JAM 14.35 (50m: 5.65/100m: 9.91/‘flying’ last
100m: 8.70) World Best
2, Marlon Devonish GBR 15.07 (5.77/10.27/9.30)
3, Ivory Williams USA 15.08 (5.79/10.26/9.29)
4, Rikki Fifton GBR 15.13 (5.78/10.28/9.35)
‘B’ Final
100m wind: 0.7; 150m wind: 1.1
1, Andy Turner GBR 15.20 (5.80/10.32/9.40)
2, Leevan Yearwood GBR 15.29 (5.87/10.41/9.42)
3, Xavier Brown JAM 15.53 (5.90/10.57/9.63)
Mario Forsythe JAM dnf (5.88/10.59/-)
First Round (Winner + 1 fastest to Final where they joined Usain Bolt) Heat 1 100m wind -0.1; 150m wind -0.8
1, Ivory Williams USA 15.32 (5.79/10.35/9.53)
2, Mario Forsythe JAM 15.60 (5.88/10.54/9.72)
3, Andy Turner GBR 15.73 (5.92/10.63/9.81)
4, Simeon Williamson GBR 16.09 (5.93/10.78/10.16)
Heat 2
100m wind -0.2; 150m wind 0.2
1, Marlon Devonish GBR 15.37 (5.84/10.41/9.53)
2, Rikki Fifton GBR 15.49 (5.86/10.48/9.63)
3, Leevan Yearwood GBR 15.52 (5.91/10.51/9.61)
4, Xavier Brown JAM 15.99 (6.01/10.81/9.98)
Women
100m wind: 0.5; 150m wind: 0.1
1, Debbie Ferguson Mckenzie BAH 16.54 (6.16/11.14/10.38)
2, Christine Ohuruogu GBR 17.10 (6.41/11.56/10.69) British Best
3, Shaunna Thompson GBR 17.20 (6.40/11.60/10.80)
4, Lee McConnell GBR 17.28 (6.53/11.67/10.75)
‘B’ Final
100m wind: 0.1; 150m wind: 0.3
1, Anyika Onuora GBR 17.68 (6.43/11.75/11.25)
2, Donna Fraser GBR 17.74 (6.53/11.89/11.21)
3, Montell Douglas GBR 17.78 (6.45/11.85/11.33)
4, Sarah Claxton GBR 18.13 (6.52/12.03/11.61)
First Round (First 2 to Final)
Heat 1
100m wind 0.1; 150m wind -0.8
1, Debbie Ferguson McKenzie BAH 16.90 (6.32/11.43/10.58)
2, Lee McConnell GBR 17.46 (6.64/11.90/10.82)
3, Montell Douglas GBR 17.83 (6.44/11.87/11.39)
4, Donna Fraser GBR 17.87 (6.61/12.03/11.26)
Heat 2
100m wind 0.3; 150m wind -0.9
1, Shaunna Thompson GBR 17.37 (6.47/11.73/10.90)
2, Christine Ohuruogu GBR 17.40 (6.51/11.76/10.89)
3, Anyika Onuora GBR 17.98 (6.57/11.98/11.41)
4, Sarah Claxton GBR 18.51 (6.71/12.36/11.80)
Very impressive run from Andy Turner. His 100m PB is 10.53 (also 10.3ht and 10.33w).
Awesome stuff from Bolt. A possible sub-19 for straight 200m if the race had been that long
I’d like to see more of these ‘timing gates’ in the major champs
They already have them at most majors every 10m. Check the archives for splits from Beijing etc
Charlie and PJ, What were some of the 150 times from Angella I., Koch, et al.?
Check out old lady debbies flying 10.3. she is rolling this year.
Those women are able to run sub16.
I thought the Beijing splits were from high speed film ?
That what I thought! Thanks.
IOC refused to have apparatus in situ in Beijing Stadium (in Osaka a biomech team had passes to sit anywhere to take measurements and pictures). So some of us were able to film from the crowds, and i provided some numbers on this site.
Thanks
What do you think Flo Jo 16.10+ from Seoul, with curve, would be on a straight? Close to 15.80?
Flo-Jo’s intermediate times during her 21.34 were 11.18 and 16.10. At 100m, she was leading Ottey by only 0.01. The reason was that Flo-Jo ran a very conservative bend. She should have been several meters ahead (she ran 10.62 at 100m legal wind in Seoul vs 11.03 for Ottey).
Flo-Jo’s 100-150m section (including approx 15m in bend) was 4.92, so adding this to 10.62 gives 15.54, which is the least she was able to run at 150m. I actually think she could run around 15.40 FAT, as she demonstrated an oustanding speed maintenance (0.91 for 10.54w and 0.92 during 10.61 and 10.62 races) during the 60-90m section of 100m races).
PJ - can you provide 10m segment splits from the races you cited?
I was reliably told that in practice, she ran 6 x 160m in 16.4ht with a 240m walk between!!! (yes, that’s 160 not 150!)
If the walks were immediately following the runs, given the speed of them, she probably had less than 240m to stroll!
Like most of these types of breaks, there’s usually a shoelace to be tied etc, but it’s a very short break for such massive and unprecedented quality.