World Rankings — Men's

World Rankings — Men’s 100

WR holder Usain Bolt won 5 No. 1s: ’08, ’09, ’12, ’13, ’16

1947 1948 1...... Mel Patton (US) 1...... Harrison Dillard (US) 2...... John Treloar (Australia) 2...... Barney Ewell (US) 3...... McDonald Bailey (Trinidad) 3...... Lloyd LaBeach (Panama) 4...... Bill Mathis (US) 4...... Mel Patton (US) 5...... Barney Ewell (US) 5. Alistair McCorquodale (Great Britain) 6...... Ed Conwell (US) 6...... John Treloar (Australia) 7...... Juan Testa (Uruguay) 7...... Juan Testa (Uruguay) 8...... Tom Carey (US) 8...... McDonald Bailey (Great Britain) 9...... Harrison Dillard (US) 9...... Ed Conwell (US) 10...... Herb McKenley (Jamaica) 10...... Don Campbell (US)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 1 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1949 1953 1...... Mel Patton (US) 1...... Willie Williams (US) 2...... Andy Stanfield (US) 2...... Art Bragg (US) 3...... Lloyd LaBeach (Panama) 3...... Thane Baker (US) 4...... McDonald Bailey (Great Britain) 4...... Hec Hogan (Australia) 5...... Bob Work (US) 5...... Heinz Fütterer (West Germany) 6...... Charlie Peters (US) 6...... Andy Stanfield (US) 7...... Harrison Dillard (US) 7...... Jim Golliday (US) 8...... Heinz Fischer (West Germany) 8...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 9...... Paul Bienz (US) 9...... Les Laing (Jamaica) 10...... Les Laing (Jamaica) 10...... McDonald Bailey (Great Britain) 1950 1954 1...... Lloyd LaBeach (Panama) 1...... Heinz Fütterer (West Germany) 2...... Andy Stanfield (US) 2...... Art Bragg (US) 3...... Bob Boyd (US) 3...... Jim Golliday (US) 4...... Art Bragg (US) 4...... Willie Williams (US) 5...... McDonald Bailey (Great Britain) 5...... Dean Smith (US) 6...... Donnie Anderson (US) 6...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 7...... John Treloar (Australia) 7...... Hec Hogan (Australia) 8...... Paul Bienz (US) 8...... Andy Stanfield (US) 9...... Bob Tyler (US) 9...... Carl Cager (US) 10...... Rafael Fortún (Cuba) 10...... James Jackson (US) 1951 1955 1...... Jim Golliday (US) 1...... Jim Golliday (US) 2...... McDonald Bailey (Great Britain) 2...... Bobby Morrow (US) 3...... Vladimir Sukharyev (Soviet Union) 3...... Rod Richard (US) 4...... Andy Stanfield (US) 4...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 5...... Rafael Fortún (Cuba) 5...... Heinz Fütterer (West Germany) 6...... Art Bragg (US) 6...... Manfred Germar (West Germany) 7...... William Degruchy (Australia) 7...... Dean Smith (US) 8...... Bob Work (US) 8...... John Haines (US) 9...... Jim Ford (US) 9...... Harry Nash (US) 10...... Heinz Fütterer (West Germany) 10...... Leamon King (US) 1952 1956 1...... Lindy Remigino (US) 1...... Bobby Morrow (US) 2...... Jim Golliday (US) 2...... Dave Sime (US) 3...... Herb McKenley (Jamaica) 3...... Leamon King (US) 4...... McDonald Bailey (Great Britain) 4...... Thane Baker (US) 5...... Andy Stanfield (US) 5...... Hec Hogan (Australia) 6...... Art Bragg (US) 6...... Ira Murchison (US) 7...... Dean Smith (US) 7...... Willie Williams (US) 8...... Vladimir Sukharyev (Soviet Union) 8...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 9...... John Treloar (Australia) 9...... Manfred Germar (West Germany) 10...... James Gathers (US) 10...... Abdul Khaliq (Pakistan)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 2 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1957 1961 1...... Bobby Morrow (US) 1...... Frank Budd (US) 2...... Leamon King (US) 2...... Dennis Johnson (Jamaica) 3...... Manfred Germar (West Germany) 3...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 4...... Willie White (US) 4...... Livio Berruti (Italy) 5...... Dave Sime (US) 5...... Bob Hayes (US) 6...... Ira Murchison (US) 6...... Seraphino Antao (Kenya) 7...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 7...... Marian Foik (Poland) 8...... Marian Foik (Poland) 8...... Jocelyn Delecour (France) 9...... José da Conceição (Brazil) 9...... David Jones (Great Britain) 10...... Orlando Hazley (US) 10...... Dave James (US) 1958 1962 1...... Bobby Morrow (US) 1...... Bob Hayes (US) 2...... Ira Murchison (US) 2...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 3...... Armin Hary (West Germany) 3...... Seraphino Antao (Kenya) 4...... Ray Norton (US) 4...... Frank Budd (US) 5...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 5...... Roger Sayers (US) 6...... Manfred Germar (West Germany) 6...... Henry Carr (US) 7...... Dave Sime (US) 7...... Jocelyn Delecour (France) 8...... Keith Gardner (Jamaica) 8...... Peter Gamper (West Germany) 9...... Peter Radford (Great Britain) 9...... Dave James (US) 10...... Willie White (US) 10...... Tom Robinson (Bahamas) 1959 1963 1...... Ray Norton (US) 1...... Bob Hayes (US) 2...... Charlie Tidwell (US) 2...... Enrique Figuerola (Cuba) 3...... Bobby Poynter (US) 3...... Henry Carr (US) 4...... Mike Agostini (Trinidad) 4...... Arquímedes Herrera (Venezuela) 5...... Abdou Seye (France) 5...... Berwyn Jones (Great Britain) 6...... Bobby Morrow (US) 6...... John Gilbert (US) 7...... Ira Murchison (US) 7...... Alfred Hebauf (West Germany) 8...... Livio Berruti (Italy) 8...... Larry Questad (US) 9...... Roscoe Cook (US) 9...... Jocelyn Delecour (France) 10...... Bill Woodhouse (US) 10...... Nate Adams (US) 1960 1964 1...... Armin Hary (West Germany) 1...... Bob Hayes (US) 2...... Ray Norton (US) 2...... Enrique Figuerola (Cuba) 3...... Charlie Tidwell (US) 3...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 4...... Dave Sime (US) 4...... Trenton Jackson (US) 5...... Peter Radford (Great Britain) 5...... Edwin Roberts (Trinidad) 6...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 6...... Henry Carr (US) 7...... Enrique Figuerola (Cuba) 7...... Horacio Esteves (Venezuela) 8...... Livio Berruti (Italy) 8...... Gerry Ashworth (US) 9...... Frank Budd (US) 9...... Wiesław Maniak (Poland) 10...... Paul Winder (US) 10..... Heinz Schumann (West Germany)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 3 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1965 Maurice Greene had 1...... George Anderson (US) four straight No. 1s, 2...... Hideo Iijima (Japan) 3...... Darel Newman (US) 1998–01 4...... Marian Dudziak (Poland) 5...... Chiachuan Chen (China) 6...... Charlie Greene (US) 7...... Gaoussou Koné (Côte d’Ivoire) 8...... Enrique Figuerola (Cuba) 9...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 10...... Wiesław Maniak (Poland) 1966 1...... Charlie Greene (US) 2...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 3...... Enrique Figuerola (Cuba) 4...... Hideo Iijima (Japan) 5...... Paul Nash (South Africa) 6...... Gaoussou Koné (Côte d’Ivoire) 7...... Jim Hines (US) 8...... Wiesław Maniak (Poland) 9...... George Anderson (US) 10...... Tommie Smith (US) 1967 1...... Jim Hines (US) 2...... Charlie Greene (US) 3...... Lennox Miller (Jamaica) 4...... Paul Nash (South Africa) 5...... Roger Bambuck (France) 6...... Gaoussou Koné (Côte d’Ivoire) 7...... Willie Turner (US) 8...... Enrique Figuerola (Cuba) 9...... Harry Jerome (Canada) 10...... Gary Holdsworth (Australia) 1968 1...... Jim Hines (US) 2...... Charlie Greene (US) 3...... Lennox Miller (Jamaica) 4...... Paul Nash (South Africa) 5...... Roger Bambuck (France) 6...... Pablo Montes (Cuba) 7...... Mel Pender (US) 8...... Ronnie Ray Smith (US) 9...... Harry Jerome (Canada) © VICTOR SAILER/PHOTO RUN 10...... Vladislav Sapeya (Soviet Union)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 4 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1969 1973 1...... John Carlos (US) 1...... Steve Williams (US) 2...... Hermes Ramírez (Cuba) 2...... Hasely Crawford (Trinidad) 3...... Lennox Miller (Jamaica) 3...... Herb Washington (US) 4...... Ivory Crockett (US) 4...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 5...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 5...... Siegfried Schenke (East Germany) 6...... Charlie Greene (US) 6... Aleksandr Kornelyuk (Soviet Union) 7...... Mel Gray (US) 7...... José Triana (Cuba) 8...... Oliver Ford (US) 8...... Masahide Jinno (Japan) 9...... Detlev Lewandowski (East Germany) 9...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 10...... Robert Taylor (US) 10...... Ivory Crockett (US) 1970 1974 1...... John Carlos (US) 1...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 2...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 2...... Steve Williams (US) 3...... Ben Vaughan (US) 3...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 4...... Charlie Greene (US) 4...... Reggie Jones (US) 5...... Pablo Montes (Cuba) 5...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 6...... Eddie Hart (US) 6...... Ivory Crockett (US) 7...... Siegfried Schenke (East Germany) 7...... Steve Riddick (US) 8...... Zenon Nowosz (Poland) 8...... Pietro Mennea (Italy) 9...... Ivory Crockett (US) 9.... Klaus-Dieter Bieler (West Germany) 10...... Hermes Ramírez (Cuba) 10...... Clifford Outlin (US) 1971 1975 1...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 1...... Steve Williams (US) 2... Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa (Mad) 2...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 3...... Jim Green (US) 3...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 4...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 4...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 5...... Lennox Miller (Jamaica) 5...... Hasely Crawford (Trinidad) 6...... Del Meriwether (US) 6...... Steve Riddick (US) 7...... Pablo Montes (Cuba) 7...... Pietro Mennea (Italy) 8..... Gerhard Wucherer (West Germany) 8...... Hermes Ramírez (Cuba) 9...... Hermes Ramírez (Cuba) 9...... James Gilkes (Guyana) 10...... Willie McGee (US) 10...... Houston McTear (US) 1972 1976 1...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 1...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 2...... Robert Taylor (US) 2...... Hasely Crawford (Trinidad) 3...... Eddie Hart (US) 3...... Valeriy Borzov (Soviet Union) 4... Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa (Mad) 4...... Harvey Glance (US) 5...... Rey Robinson (US) 5...... Steve Williams (US) 6...... Pietro Mennea (Italy) 6...... Steve Riddick (US) 7...... Lennox Miller (Jamaica) 7.... Klaus-Dieter Kurrat (East Germany) 8...... Gerald Tinker (US) 8...... Guy Abrahams (Panama) 9... Aleksandr Kornelyuk (Soviet Union) 9...... James Gilkes (Guyana) 10..... Vassilios Papageorgópoulos (Greece) 10...... Reggie Jones (US)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 5 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1977 1981 1...... Eugen Ray (East Germany) 1...... Carl Lewis (US) 2...... Houston McTear (US) 2...... Mel Lattany (US) 3...... Steve Williams (US) 3...... Allan Wells (Great Britain) 4...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 4...... James Sanford (US) 5...... Clancy Edwards (US) 5...... Stanley Floyd (US) 6...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 6...... Jeff Phillips (US) 7...... Hasely Crawford (Trinidad) 7...... Ernest Obeng (Ghana) 8...... Johnny Jones (US) 8..... Frank Emmelmann (East Germany) 9...... Pietro Mennea (Italy) 9...... Herman Panzo (France) 10...... Steve Riddick (US) 10...... Dwayne Evans (US) 1978 1982 1...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 1...... Carl Lewis (US) 2...... Clancy Edwards (US) 2...... Calvin Smith (US) 3...... Don Quarrie (Jamaica) 3...... Mel Lattany (US) 4...... Hasely Crawford (Trinidad) 4...... Stanley Floyd (US) 5...... Steve Williams (US) 5...... Jeff Phillips (US) 6...... Pietro Mennea (Italy) 6..... Frank Emmelmann (East Germany) 7...... Curtis Dickey (US) 7...... Mike Miller (US) 8...... Steve Riddick (US) 8...... Emmit King (US) 9...... Eugen Ray (East Germany) 9...... Willie Gault (US) 10...... Allan Wells (Great Britain) 10...... Pier-Francesco Pavoni (Italy) 1979 1983 1...... James Sanford (US) 1...... Carl Lewis (US) 2...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 2...... Calvin Smith (US) 3...... Harvey Glance (US) 3...... Mel Lattany (US) 4...... Houston McTear (US) 4...... Emmit King (US) 5...... Pietro Mennea (Italy) 5...... Ron Brown (US) 6...... Allan Wells (Great Britain) 6...... Allan Wells (Great Britain) 7...... Marian Woronin (Poland) 7...... Leandro Peñalver (Cuba) 8...... Jerome Deal (US) 8...... Juan Nuñez (Dominican Republic) 9...... Emmit King (US) 9...... Willie Gault (US) 10...... Steve Riddick (US) 10...... Sam Graddy (US) 1980 1984 1...... Stanley Floyd (US) 1...... Carl Lewis (US) 2...... Allan Wells (Great Britain) 2...... Sam Graddy (US) 3...... Silvio Leonard (Cuba) 3...... Kirk Baptiste (US) 4...... James Sanford (US) 4...... Ben Johnson (Canada) 5...... Mel Lattany (US) 5...... Ron Brown (US) 6...... Harvey Glance (US) 6...... Calvin Smith (US) 7...... Carl Lewis (US) 7...... Harvey Glance (US) 8...... Petar Petrov (Bulgaria) 8...... Osvaldo Lara (Cuba) 9...... Mike Roberson (US) 9...... Stefano Tilli (Italy) 10...... Calvin Smith (US) 10...... Leandro Peñalver (Cuba)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 6 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1985 1989 1...... Carl Lewis (US) 1...... Raymond Stewart (Jamaica) 2...... Ben Johnson (Canada) 2...... Carl Lewis (US) 3...... Chidi Imoh (Nigeria) 3...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 4...... Kirk Baptiste (US) 4...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 5...... Marian Woronin (Poland) 5...... Leroy Burrell (US) 6...... Calvin Smith (US) 6...... Andre Cason (US) 7...... Terry Scott (US) 7...... Calvin Smith (US) 8...... Andrés Simon (Cuba) 8...... Mike Marsh (US) 9...... Lee McNeill (US) 9...... Daniel Sangouma (France) 10...... Mike Morris (US) 10...... Mark Witherspoon (US) 1986 1990 1...... Ben Johnson (Canada) 1...... Leroy Burrell (US) 2...... Chidi Imoh (Nigeria) 2...... Carl Lewis (US) 3...... Carl Lewis (US) 3...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 4...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 4...... Mark Witherspoon (US) 5...... Marian Woronin (Poland) 5...... Olapade Adeniken (Nigeria) 6...... Calvin Smith (US) 6...... Calvin Smith (US) 7...... Harvey Glance (US) 7...... Chidi Imoh (Nigeria) 8...... Lee McRae (US) 8...... Daron Council (US) 9...... Sam Graddy (US) 9...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 10...... Bruno Marie-Rose (France) 10...... Daniel Sangouma (France) 1987 1991 1...... Ben Johnson (Canada) 1...... Leroy Burrell (US) 2...... Carl Lewis (US) 2...... Carl Lewis (US) 3...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 3...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 4...... Raymond Stewart (Jamaica) 4...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 5...... Calvin Smith (US) 5...... Andre Cason (US) 6...... Lee McRae (US) 6...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 7...... Mark Witherspoon (US) 7...... Raymond Stewart (Jamaica) 8...... Attila Kovács (Hungary) 8...... Bruny Surin (Canada) 9...... Viktor Bryzgin (Soviet Union) 9...... Róbson da Silva (Brazil) 10...... Stanley Floyd (US) 10...... Olapade Adeniken (Nigeria) 1988 1992 1...... Carl Lewis (US) 1...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 2...... Calvin Smith (US) 2...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 3...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 3...... Carl Lewis (US) 4...... Chidi Imoh (Nigeria) 4...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 5...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 5...... Olapade Adeniken (Nigeria) 6...... Ben Johnson (Canada) 6...... Leroy Burrell (US) 7...... Raymond Stewart (Jamaica) 7...... Bruny Surin (Canada) 8...... Joe DeLoach (US) 8...... Mark Witherspoon (US) 9...... Róbson da Silva (Brazil) 9...... Vitaliy Savin (Kazakhstan) 10...... Desai Williams (Canada) 10...... Davidson Ezinwa (Nigeria)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 7 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 1993 1997 1...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 1...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 2...... Andre Cason (US) 2...... Maurice Greene (US) 3...... Leroy Burrell (US) 3...... Donovan Bailey (Canada) 4...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 4...... Tim Montgomery (US) 5...... Jon Drummond (US) 5...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 6...... Carl Lewis (US) 6...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 7...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 7...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 8...... Bruny Surin (Canada) 8...... Davidson Ezinwa (Nigeria) 9...... Daniel Effiong (Nigeria) 9...... Kareem Streete-Thompson (US) 10...... Olapade Adeniken (Nigeria) 10...... Mike Marsh (US) 1994 1998 1...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 1...... Maurice Greene (US) 2...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 2...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 3...... Jon Drummond (US) 3...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 4...... Leroy Burrell (US) 4...... Donovan Bailey (Canada) 5...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 5...... Jon Drummond (US) 6...... Davidson Ezinwa (Nigeria) 6...... Obadele Thompson (Barbados) 7...... Andre Cason (US) 7...... Seun Ogunkoya (Nigeria) 8...... Donovan Bailey (Canada) 8...... Tim Harden (US) 9...... Olapade Adeniken (Nigeria) 9...... Francis Obikwelu (Nigeria) 10...... Carl Lewis (US) 10...... Brian Lewis (US) 1995 1999 1...... Donovan Bailey (Canada) 1...... Maurice Greene (US) 2...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 2...... Bruny Surin (Canada) 3...... Bruny Surin (Canada) 3...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 4...... Jon Drummond (US) 4...... Dwain Chambers (Great Britain) 5...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 5...... Obadele Thompson (Barbados) 6...... Olapade Adeniken (Nigeria) 6...... Tim Harden (US) 7...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 7...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 8...... Mike Marsh (US) 8...... Leonard Myles-Mills (Ghana) 9...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 9...... Tim Montgomery (US) 10...... Michael Green (Jamaica) 10...... Jason Gardener (Great Britain) 1996 2000 1...... Donovan Bailey (Canada) 1...... Maurice Greene (US) 2...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 2...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 3...... Dennis Mitchell (US) 3...... Obadele Thompson (Barbados) 4...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 4...... Brian Lewis (US) 5...... Linford Christie (Great Britain) 5...... Francis Obikwelu (Nigeria) 6...... Mike Marsh (US) 6...... Dwain Chambers (Great Britain) 7...... Bruny Surin (Canada) 7...... Darren Campbell (Great Britain) 8...... Michael Green (Jamaica) 8...... Jon Drummond (US) 9...... Jon Drummond (US) 9...... Tim Montgomery (US) 10...... Carl Lewis (US) 10...... Kenny Brokenburr (US)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 8 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 2001 2005 1...... Maurice Greene (US) 1...... Justin Gatlin (US) 2...... Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 2...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 3...... Bernard Williams (US) 3...... Aziz Zakari (Ghana) 4...... Dwain Chambers (Great Britain) 4...... Dwight Thomas (Jamaica) 5...... Francis Obikwelu (Nigeria) 5...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 6...... Aziz Zakari (Ghana) 6...... Francis Obikwelu (Portugal) 7...... Curtis Johnson (US) 7...... Leonard Scott (US) 8...... Jon Drummond (US) 8...... Kim Collins (St. Kitts) 9...... Kim Collins (St. Kitts) 9...... Marc Burns (Trinidad) 10.... Mark Lewis-Francis (Great Britain) 10...... Ronald Pognon (France) 2002¶ 2006 1...... Maurice Greene (US) 1...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 2...... Kim Collins (St. Kitts) 2...... Tyson Gay (US) 3...... Francis Obikwelu (Portugal) 3...... Leonard Scott (US) 4...... Bernard Williams (US) 4...... Marcus Brunson (US) 5...... Coby Miller (US) 5...... Francis Obikwelu (Portugal) 6...... Mark Lewis-Francis (Great Britain) 6...... Shawn Crawford (US) 7...... Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 7...... Ronald Pognon (France) 8...... Jon Drummond (US) 8...... Olusoji Fasuba (Nigeria) 9...... Uchenna Emedolu (Nigeria) 9...... Marc Burns (Trinidad) 10...... Deji Aliu (Nigeria) 10...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 2003 2007 1...... John Capel (US) 1...... Tyson Gay (US) 2...... Bernard Williams (US) 2...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 3...... Kim Collins (St. Kitts) 3...... Derrick Atkins (Bahamas) 4...... Justin Gatlin (US) 4...... Jaysuma Saidy (Norway) 5...... Deji Aliu (Nigeria) 5.... Churandy Martina (Netherlands Antilles) 6...... Darrel Brown (Trinidad) 6...... Marlon Devonish (Great Britain) 7...... Darren Campbell (Great Britain) 7...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 8...... Maurice Greene (US) 8...... Francis Obikwelu (Portugal) 9...... Uchenna Emedolu (Nigeria) 9...... Olusoji Fasuba (Nigeria) 10...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 10...... Wallace Spearmon II (US) 2004 2008 1...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 1...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2...... Justin Gatlin (US) 2...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 3...... Francis Obikwelu (Portugal) 3...... Richard Thompson (Trinidad) 4...... Maurice Greene (US) 4...... Walter Dix (US) 5...... Shawn Crawford (US) 5.... Churandy Martina (Netherlands Antilles) 6...... Aziz Zakari (Ghana) 6...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 7...... Kim Collins (St. Kitts) 7...... Marc Burns (Trinidad) 8...... John Capel (US) 8...... Tyson Gay (US) 9...... Leonard Scott (US) 9...... Doc Patton (US) 10...... Dwight Thomas (Jamaica) 10...... Nesta Carter (Jamaica)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 9 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 2009 2013 1...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 1...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2...... Tyson Gay (US) 2...... Justin Gatlin (US) 3...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 3...... Mike Rodgers (US) 4...... Daniel Bailey (Antigua) 4...... Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 5...... Doc Patton (US) 5...... Nickel Ashmeade (Jamaica) 6...... Mike Rodgers (US) 6...... Kemar Bailey-Cole (Jamaica) 7...... Steve Mullings (Jamaica) 7...... Kim Collins (St Kitts) 8...... Richard Thompson (Trinidad) 8...... Jimmy Vicaut (France) 9...... Travis Padgett (US) 9...... Christophe Lemaitre (France) 10...... Dwain Chambers (Great Britain) 10...... James Dasaolu (Great Britain) 2010 2014 1...... Tyson Gay (US) 1...... Justin Gatlin (US) 2...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2...... Mike Rodgers (US) 3...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 3...... Kemar Bailey-Cole (Jamaica) 4...... Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 4...... Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 5...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 5...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 6...... Richard Thompson (Trinidad) 6...... James Dasaolu (Great Britain) 7...... Daniel Bailey (Antigua) 7...... Adam Gemili (Great Britain) 8...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 8...... Nickel Ashmeade (Jamaica) 9...... Mike Rodgers (US) 9...... Richard Thompson (Trinidad) 10...... Christophe Lemaitre (France) 10...... Kim Collins (St Kitts) 2011 2015 1...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 1...... Justin Gatlin (US) 2...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 3...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 3...... Tyson Gay (US) 4...... Walter Dix (US) 4...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 5...... Christophe Lemaitre (France) 5...... Andre De Grasse (Canada) 6...... Kim Collins (St Kitts) 6...... Trayvon Bromell (US) 7...... Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 7...... Jimmy Vicaut (France) 8...... Daniel Bailey (Antigua) 8...... Mike Rodgers (US) 9...... Mike Rodgers (US) 9...... Femi Ogunode (Qatar) 10...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 10...... Keston Bledman (Trinidad) 2012 2016 1...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 1...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 2...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 2...... Justin Gatlin (US) 3...... Justin Gatlin (US) 3...... Andre De Grasse (Canada) 4...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 4...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 5...... Ryan Bailey (US) 5...... Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 6...... Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 6...... Akani Simbine (South Africa) 7...... Michael Frater (Jamaica) 7...... Ben Youssef Meité (Côte d’Ivoire) 8...... Mike Rodgers (US) 8...... Jimmy Vicaut (France) 9...... Christophe Lemaitre (France) 9...... Trayvon Bromell (US) 10...... Kemar Bailey-Cole (Jamaica) 10...... Nickel Ashmeade (Jamaica)

© Track & Field News 2020 — 10 — World Rankings — Men’s 100 2017 2019 1...... Justin Gatlin (US) 1...... Christian Coleman (US) 2...... Christian Coleman (US) 2...... Noah Lyles (US) 3...... Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 3...... Justin Gatlin (US) 4...... CJ Ujah (Great Britain) 5...... Andre De Grasse (Canada) 5...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 6...... Akani Simbine (South Africa) 6...... Akani Simbine (South Africa) 4...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 7...... Andre De Grasse (Canada) 7...... Zharnel Hughes (Great Britain) 8...... Ben Youssef Meité (Côte d’Ivoire) 9...... Zhenye Xie (China) 9...... Ronnie Baker (US) 8...... Mike Rodgers (US) 10...... Jimmy Vicaut (France) 10...... Aaron Brown (Canada) 2018 1...... Christian Coleman (US) 2...... Ronnie Baker (US) 3...... Noah Lyles (US) 4...... Reece Prescod (Great Britain) 5...... Zharnel Hughes (Great Britain) 6...... Bingtian Su (China) 7...... Akani Simbine (South Africa) 8...... Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 9...... Jimmy Vicaut (France) 10...... Mike Rodgers (US)