Breaching the 10s barrier in 100m — which Indian sprinter will get there first
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Breaching the 10s barrier in 100m — which Indian sprinter will get there first

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Manikanta Hoblidhar thought he had it. If I had been able to run all the way through to the finish line, I’m sure I’d have run in less than 10.20 seconds,” he says. Just a couple of years ago, Sri Lanka’s Yupun Abeykoon clocked a time of 9.96 seconds, becoming the first South Asian to break the 10-second barrier in the 100m — considered one of the gold standards of track excellence. It seems very far away, but that’s where we want to get to,” says Hillier, who previously coached Jyothi Yarraji to a national record and an Asian Games silver medal in the women’s 100m hurdles. “When you actually measure it, there isn’t a significant difference in the top speed of an Indian runner clocking 10.25 seconds for the 100m and someone running sub-10 seconds.

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