W 100m - Florence Griffith-Joyner - - Indianapolis (USA) - 1988 - World Record

100m - Florence Griffith-Joyner - - Indianapolis (USA) - 1988 - World Record In the first race of the quarterfinals of the U.S. Olympic Trials, she stunned her colleagues when she sprinted 100 meters in seconds, a new world record. Since 1997 the International Athletics Annual of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians has listed this performance as “probably strongly wind assisted, but recognized as a world record“. Over the two day trials, Griffith-Joyner recorded the three fastest times for a woman at 100 meters: in the quarter-final, in the semi-final, and in the finals. At the same Olympic trials Griffith-Joyner also set an American record at the 200-meter distance with a time of seconds.