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notorious 08:50 AM 05-12-2019
Houston high school runner Matthew Boling breaks national record in 100-meter dash

Yahoo

Ryan Young

Houston high school sprinter Matthew Boling has garnered immense national attention on the track in recent months.

On Saturday, the 18-year-old took that to a new level.

Boling ran the 100-meter dash at the Texas UIL state track and field championships at the University of Texas in Austin in just 10.13 seconds — breaking a 29-year-old national record.

The Strake Jesuit high school senior made headlines earlier this month after his performance at the Texas Region III-6A track meet when he ran the 100-meter dash in just 9.98 seconds — which marked the fastest all-conditions mark ever recorded by a high school sprinter. Boling was helped by a tailwind of just more than twice the legal limit at that meet, however.

He backed that up on Saturday, though, with his wind-legal time still setting the new national record — and he still thinks he can go faster.

“Honestly when I looked at the race before us and saw that the wind was 1.3, I was like 'Oh, I'm excited,’” Boling said, via the Houston Chronicle. “Because after last week, everyone was like 'Oh, the wind wasn't legal' and stuff like that. So I was like 'Alright, I'll just drop a fast time today.’”

The Georgia signee won the long jump earlier on Saturday, too, at 25 feet and 4.5 inches in just two jumps. He currently holds the Texas record at 26-3.5, which is the seventh-best distance in high school track and field history.

"I wasn't aiming for any big records," Boling said, via the Houston Chronicle. "Like in the long jump I only took two jumps because I just wanted to be rested because I had so many events today. I just had to do my job and get as many points for the team as possible."

Boling, naturally, drew plenty of eyes at the meet on Saturday. He even had a police escort with him as he walked around the stadium.

That attention, he said, actually pushes him.

And at the rate he’s going, that’s all but certain to be a good thing.

“I look up and whenever I see the crowd get up to start videoing and watching, it definitely gets me hyped,” Boling said, via the Houston Chronicle. “That's what I love about the 100. Everyone comes to watch it and it's really fun. I got out well and I was just happy with it and the build-up and anticipation was a lot of adrenaline, but it was really fun.”



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ThaVirus 12:44 PM 06-29-2022

Noah Lyles staring down Erriyon Knighton ��pic.twitter.com/kLlT7wz9oR

— Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) June 26, 2022


This was a pretty good race. Knighton is the young up-and-comer. I believe he is only 17 years old.

Lyles is the "veteran" and pulled through at the very end to win, with a little style with the stare-down too.

Interestingly, I noticed the runner Boling from OP looked like he was in this race as well and finished 5th or 6th.
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scho63 12:49 PM 06-29-2022
Let's call the dude "White Lightening"
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JohnnyHammersticks 03:43 PM 06-29-2022
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
This was a pretty good race. Knighton is the young up-and-comer. I believe he is only 17 years old.

Lyles is the "veteran" and pulled through at the very end to win, with a little style with the stare-down too.

Interestingly, I noticed the runner Boling from OP looked like he was in this race as well and finished 5th or 6th.
If anyone is curious about who will break Usain Bolt's 100m and 200m records - as long as he stays healthy it's going to be Erriyon Knighton. Already a half second faster in the 200m at 18 than Bolt was at 18. A half a second is an eternity in the 200m.

Classless move by Lyles. He was a dick in the interview after the race too. Noah better enjoy it while he can, because within a year Knighton is going to be mopping the track with him.
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JohnnyHammersticks 12:14 PM 07-20-2022
Both Abby Steiner and Erriyon Knighton are running in their respective 200m finals in the Track and Field World Championships tonight. USA Network. 200m has pretty much usurped the 100m as the glamour sprint event.
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Pitt Gorilla 12:27 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:


This was a pretty good race. Knighton is the young up-and-comer. I believe he is only 17 years old.

Lyles is the "veteran" and pulled through at the very end to win, with a little style with the stare-down too.

Interestingly, I noticed the runner Boling from OP looked like he was in this race as well and finished 5th or 6th.
Yeah, Boling really hasn't progressed much, at least not on the big stage. Knighton and Lyles are both incredible runners.
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ThaVirus 12:43 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks:
Both Abby Steiner and Erriyon Knighton are running in their respective 200m finals in the Track and Field World Championships tonight. USA Network. 200m has pretty much usurped the 100m as the glamor sprint event.

Do you know what time?

Idk what the issue is, but finding the information for this shit has been a nightmare. I’ll check the schedule online, then go to the TV and search for ‘World Athletics Championship’ and it’ll have times that just don’t make sense, like ‘airing at 6:00am’ and shit like that when I know it should be on at that moment.

The only major event I was able to see live was the men’s 100m final. Fred Kerley is a beast, by the way.

Apparently Lyles and Knighton both ran 200m heats over the last couple days that I missed and Shelley Ann Fraser Pryce beat Abby Steiner in a 200m semi-final as well. I missed all of that; had to watch it all on YouTube after the fact.
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Rain Man 12:52 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:

... Shelley Ann Fraser Pryce ...
You prompted me to look this person up, and she's only 5-0 tall. That American with the marijuana is also 5-0. What's the deal with tiny women sprinters?

I wonder if women's sprinting favors fast acceleration over high top end speed or something. It seems like there must be a physical reason that these women sprinters are tiny while the male sprinters are tall.
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JohnnyHammersticks 01:17 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Do you know what time?

Idk what the issue is, but finding the information for this shit has been a nightmare. I’ll check the schedule online, then go to the TV and search for ‘World Athletics Championship’ and it’ll have times that just don’t make sense, like ‘airing at 6:00am’ and shit like that when I know it should be on at that moment.

The only major event I was able to see live was the men’s 100m final. Fred Kerley is a beast, by the way.

Apparently Lyles and Knighton both ran 200m heats over the last couple days that I missed and Shelley Ann Fraser Pryce beat Abby Steiner in a 200m semi-final as well. I missed all of that; had to watch it all on YouTube after the fact.
Broadcast starts earlier today. 4:30pm Pacific time, 7:30 Eastern. Didn't start until 8:35pm Pacific yesterday.
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ThaVirus 01:48 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
You prompted me to look this person up, and she's only 5-0 tall. That American with the marijuana is also 5-0. What's the deal with tiny women sprinters?

I wonder if women's sprinting favors fast acceleration over high top end speed or something. It seems like there must be a physical reason that these women sprinters are tiny while the male sprinters are tall.
Oh, man, you've been missing out. She is incredible. I think she's like 35 or something now, too, which is basically ancient in the sprinting world.

Some light Googling makes it seem as though Fraser-Pryce is a bit of an anomaly. FloJo was 5'7". Elaine Thompson-Herah is 5'6". Marion Jones was 5'10". Carmelita Jeter was 5'4".

Fraser-Pryce's turnover must be insane.

The men do definitely seem to skew taller, though. It seems like 5'11"-6'1" is where the bulk of sprinters lie. Damn near everyone I could think of fit in that group (Tyson Gay, Michael Johnson, Justin Gatlin, etc.). Christian Coleman is the smallest guy I could find at 5'9" while Bolt is obviously huge at 6'5" and the most recent 100m world champ, Fred Kerley, is listed at 6'3".
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Pitt Gorilla 03:05 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
You prompted me to look this person up, and she's only 5-0 tall. That American with the marijuana is also 5-0. What's the deal with tiny women sprinters?

I wonder if women's sprinting favors fast acceleration over high top end speed or something. It seems like there must be a physical reason that these women sprinters are tiny while the male sprinters are tall.
The 100m is all about the start (mostly). Some guys (like Kerley?) can make up for a bad start, but most elite sprinters get their advantage out of the blocks or shortly thereafter. Powerful, more-compact legs get you going faster quicker.
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JohnnyHammersticks 03:37 PM 07-20-2022
My bad, they’re giving them 48 hours between the semi’s and the finals instead of 24 they had between the opening heats and the semi’s. Men’s and women’s 200m finals are tomorrow night.
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ThaVirus 04:20 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks:
My bad, they’re giving them 48 hours between the semi’s and the finals instead of 24 they had between the opening heats and the semi’s. Men’s and women’s 200m finals are tomorrow night.

Thank you. I am eager to see both 200m finals.
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KingPriest2 05:26 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks:
Both Abby Steiner and Erriyon Knighton are running in their respective 200m finals in the Track and Field World Championships tonight. USA Network. 200m has pretty much usurped the 100m as the glamour sprint event.
400 m hurdles Mens and Women's are more marque.

Warholm smashed the world record and Benjamin. Then you add in Dos Santos

McLaughlin breaking the WR several times. and Muhammad in the wonens

110 hurdles.

Hollaway and Allen
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kccrow 06:35 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by KingPriest2:
400 m hurdles Mens and Women's are more marque.

Warholm smashed the world record and Benjamin. Then you add in Dos Santos

McLaughlin breaking the WR several times. and Muhammad in the wonens

110 hurdles.

Hollaway and Allen
I don't see the 400m hurdles as a "marquee," per se, but I think it's solidly top 10. I think it's probably because there's some serious competition in it right now though that makes it better.

My top 10 probably looks like this:

1. 100m
2. 1500m
3. 800m (To me, the best overall race)
4. 110m hurdles
5. 4x100m relay
6. 200m (has climbed recently while 800 has dropped)
7. Marathon (a passive watch, for sure, and not exciting)
8. 400m hurdles
9. 4x400m relay
10. Pole Vault... Women's, because there aren't any hotter bitches in the stadium.

After that, a mixed bag of shit select people like.
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Pitt Gorilla 10:18 PM 07-20-2022
Originally Posted by kccrow:
I don't see the 400m hurdles as a "marquee," per se, but I think it's solidly top 10. I think it's probably because there's some serious competition in it right now though that makes it better.

My top 10 probably looks like this:

1. 100m
2. 1500m
3. 800m (To me, the best overall race)
4. 110m hurdles
5. 4x100m relay
6. 200m (has climbed recently while 800 has dropped)
7. Marathon (a passive watch, for sure, and not exciting)
8. 400m hurdles
9. 4x400m relay
10. Pole Vault... Women's, because there aren't any hotter bitches in the stadium.

After that, a mixed bag of shit select people like.
How do you exclude the open 400?
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