What is the fastest 100m ran by a caucasion person?

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@Sevastocrator

So, is it a race or one’s genes?

From anthropological point of view how many different racial types exist in W. Africa?

I have studied more European types than African racial types and can say that there are more than a dozen of different racial types among white Europeans. So, is it the colour of skin or something else?

Mediterranean Proper

Atlanto-Mediterranean

Pontic Mediterranean

East African

http://racialreality.110mb.com/subraces.html

And many other racial types;

Irano-Afghan
Corded Nordic
Danubian Nordic
Hallstatt Nordic
Keltic Nordic
Borreby
Brünn
Tronder
Alpine
Dinaric
Noric
Armenoid
Ladogan
East Baltic
Neo-Danubian
Lappish

All of them are WHITE but some are better at something than others, right?

From my understanding and I am no geneticist there are 6 major races and all the races fall under the following major racial groups.

Sub-Saharan African
Indo-European
East Asian
South Asian
Aboriginal
Native American

@newty82

In Kenyan distance runners cases they obviously have the highest levels of personal motivation (i’d say 99% of all professional elite athletes max out on this metric)

The Kalenjin Region other than high altitude have no facilities and no $$ for good nutrition and/or doping (till the start making $$).

So if we were to place emphasis on what the biggest contributing factor to distance running success I am led to conclude genetic factors explain most of it. But like all things in the human world its always multi factoral and the problem with studying cultural environmental factors sometimes our studying affects the outcome…people aren’t simple like apples so Sir Issac Newton can keep dropping it and getting the same result so he can figure out a formula for gravity…people change their behaviour even to the same “stimulus” and that fogs any results.

A common misconception is that all Kenyans have good genetics for distance running. Kenyans success in distance running comes from 4 main tribes in Kenya (Kikuyu, Kambia, Kissi, Kalenjin. )75% of Kenyans international runners come from one particular tribe the Kalenjin which represents 10% of population. Overall in Kenya there are 40 tribal groups therefore statistically its really one main tribe that produces phenomenal success in distance running.

I suggest a similar phenomen exist within West African origin athletes. It probably could be traced to few main tribal groups in West Africa. We know the long history of deporting slaves from West Africa and it would be apparent that tribal groups with the strongest would be first option for the slave trade.

I am willing to accept the argument that certain tribal groups within a race could have genetic traits that are advantageous to sport but in no way I am willing to accept that entire race/region can inherent these same traits. That’s why statements like Kenyans are better distance runners or West African origin athletes make better sprinters -are misleading. Its only small tribal groups within the main racial group that inherent these traits for distance or sprint running.