hey what's up everyone! Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going over the
top 10 men's sprinters of all time and we're going to start the video right now
all right so i thought i made this video just because we're finishing up with the olympics
and there's been so many great sprinters in the history of time and so i thought i'd go
into the top ten a lot of americans a lot of jamaicans obviously those end up being the two top
spreading places but you know really i went into overall accomplishments you know top times
a little bit into former technique but most of it has to do with you know how they were
able to perform at the highest stages and we're going to go ahead and get started with the list
and number 10 we're going to start with jim hines just because he was the first
athlete to beat the 10 second barrier he was able to run 9.95 and there ended up being a
lot of controversy around that because on the official standpoint there's some people that
said he went uh 1003 so he ended up not going and beating that 10 second mark at least in the
olympic games in like 1968 i want to say um but then he still ended up beating that mark
in the 70s and it still didn't end up being a hundred percent official just because it ended
up being at a high altitude but he still went to olympic gold medals and many consider him to be
the first person to be able to beat that 10-second bear so at number 10 we got jim hines
and coming in number nine is going to be tyson gay it's so difficult to be able to really go
through and and really number these guys in terms of you know top 10 just because there's so many
great sprinters that we've seen but i chose tyson gay and it's difficult just because you know he's
so successful in the 100 meter he has the second best time in the 100 meter with 969. uh he won one
olympic silver three world championship goals just one of the the top sprinters ever and you know the
reason that i didn't put him higher up is just because you know some of the other sprinters were
doing it longer or had more olympic golds or you know were just able to have more success at other
races other than just the 100 meter you know like tyson gate was really great at 100 meter
some of the other guys were great at the 100 meter and the 200 meter or just over a long
period of time just had so much dominance so i thought tyson gay coming at number nine was a
great place for him to be but he's still one of the top sprinters so you know in terms of his
100 meter he'd probably be top 300 meter sprinters ever but you know in this i include the 100 meter
the 200 meter and the 400 meter in terms of you know who can qualify for the top sprinters ever
and coming in number eight we have yohan blake another person that
could definitely be higher up you know again it's really hard to be able to
put these into numbers and i always feel bad putting him so low uh but you know at
the end of the day he won one olympic gold and that olympic gold was in the four by one
uh and he had two silvers and so and two world championship gold so i mean from an individual
standpoint he you know didn't do a ton of great performances you know overall he still has you
know one of the best times in the hundred and also in the 200 so from his printing perspective he did
really great but from an accolade perspective really didn't do much on an individual basis
to be able to really catapult him into a higher position overall on this list you know he did
have one of the toughest people to compete against which is usain bolt who is obviously going to be
on this list and is really competing at a time where there's so many great sprinters overall
but you know yohan blake is somebody that is still one of the greatest printers of
all time undoubtedly and in my opinion is eight on the list in terms of all-time best sprinters
and coming in seventh is maurice green one of the best american sprinters ever had two
olympic golds one of those was in a 4x1 but then also one in the hundred and one five
world championships had the world record for the 60 meters for a while you know ran 979 and 100
really did some great accomplishments in terms of you know overall sprinting and in the 90s there
was one of the top sprinters in the world undoubtedly and you know is number seven on
the list great for great technique a little bit shorter overall from a spreading perspective but
still had such an amazing top-end speed and was one of those guys that was just insanely
built overall as an athlete and really showed that being able to utilize the weight room is something
that could be hugely beneficial in terms of your overall performance so number seven murray screen
all right so number six i'm going to go with justin gatlin i'm sure this is going to be
a little bit scrutinized just because you know justin gatlin didn't do as much from a you know
performance standpoint yeah with 100 you know his best time was 974 without having to win he
did get down into 964 as well but that one didn't actually you know count as an official time i ran
great 60s you know three world championship goals got an olympic goal that's one of the reasons why
i put him up there as well as from the standpoint of longevity in terms of how long he's just been a
top sprinter he became a world indoor champion in 2003 became an olympic champion in 2004
and you know really was able to sustain a high level performance until 2006 ended up getting in
trouble for a doping ban came back in 2010 2011 and it's been able to maintain a very high level
performance was really competing at the olympic trials to be able to potentially make the olympics
again here in 2021 at 39 years old would have been the oldest athlete to be able to compete at
the olympics of all time so the reason i put him at number six is just because he's been able to
compete at such a high level for such a long period of time me just turning 30 right now i mean
there's just so much respect for an additional decade of being able to compete at the highest
level i just feel like he just deserves to be a little bit higher up just because of how long he's
been able to be at the highest level and even having to take some years off and coming back
you know he's just one of the best of all time number six justin gatlin we're gonna
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and number five i'm going to give to a sophomore and while he does not have the same amount of
gold as some of these other guys that might have been below him he does have one olympic gold in
the four by 100 again two world championship goals and in a lot of people's minds was kind
of frustrating in terms of his performance and a lot of the biggest races you know did
not always show up and a lot of times ended up getting a little bit worse of a position than
a lot of people predicted going into the race but overall he has the record for the most sub 10 100
meter performances which is 97 which i think is absolutely phenomenal again you know gotta
give a lot of respect to the people that have been able to compete at a very very high level
for a sustained period of time that ends up being the big thing here in my scoring is
like if you were able to do it for a while then i kind of raised you up overall still had to get
accolades still had to perform at high levels so to have great times but you know in terms
of your sustainability that ends up being a big thing as well and so it stops powell number five
and coming in fourth we're gonna go with jesse owens one of the most famous
track and field athletes in american history just because he
was one of the only people to be able to win four olympic gold medals in track and
field in one olympics four goals one olympics absolutely amazing 1936 is when he did it when
really hitler was trying to push for the aryan race and having the supremacy there and then
you know jesse owens god bless him came in and 100 meter won the 4x1 won the long jump
won the 200 meter just absolutely destroyed the field in the 1936 olympics in germany
as well which was just absolutely amazing to be able to go back and be able to see
and you know ran some great times at the time you know 10-3 and 100 20.7 and the 200 you know it's
just really able to achieve some great things 8.06 meters in his long jump and so just killed
the field and you know one of again the greatest athletes of all time number four jesse owens
all right now we're gonna get into the top three i'm gonna go with carl lewis at third it's gonna
be it's kind of tough to be able to do that just because carl lewis is so well decorated he won the
olympic gold nine times one silver won the world championships eight times one silver one bronze
ran the pan american games two gold one bronze and the goodwill games three gold one silver
one bronze so overall he's had 22 gold medals three civil american medals and three bronze
medals absolutely amazing in terms of his overall performance he's one of the best long jumpers
ever uh one of the best hundred meter sprinters ever one of the best american athletes ever and
you know overall i mean just an amazing person to be able to watch because he was able to do
it in the long jump as well as the 100 meter but this is just something that goes into the
sprinting and you know so he still did some great things from a sprinting perspective obviously
but you know didn't do the same type of stuff as these other guys in the top two
and so he ends up being the third best sprinter of all time in my opinion carl lewis
and at number two i'm going with michael johnson just because he competed at such a high level
in both the 200 meter and the 400 meter won the olympic gold in both the 200 and the 400 meter in
atlanta won the 400 meter as by itself in sydney in 2000 in terms of the olympic games won the
28 gold medals in the world championships won four gold medals on the goodwill games really won
gold all the time you know like he never came in second never came in third he was just a full-on
winner and again you know one 200 meter won the 400 meter that was the big reason why
i put him at number two is because he competed at a high level more than just one event where carl
lewis you know he did compete in the long jump as well but that's not sprinting the jumping he just
really competed at the 100 meter primarily and you know obviously the 4x1 as well but you know it's
a whole other thing when it comes to winning the 200 meter goal as well as the 400 meter goal and
still you know ran 1009 in the 100 as well so was a great athlete afterwards he is one of the top
sprinting coaches now as well so michael johnson to me is the second best sprinter of all time
especially for what he's been doing after hanging up the spikes and continuing to be a big advocate
for teaching people in sprinting and has a really unique style in his sprinting mechanics in general
and really having that backward lean when he's sprinting and still being able to be one of the
best friends of all time i think it's an amazing accomplishment again so michael johnson number two
all right and the best printer of all time and i think that this would be the number one sprinter
on anybody's list the number two through ten can be changed depending on what ends up being your
specific opinion about sprinting and what ends up being more important but everybody
i think is going to come to the conclusion that usain bolt is the greatest sprinter of all time
he is still the world record holder in the 100 meter and the 200 meter with a 95 800 a 1919 200
and it's just one of the best olympic champions of all time has eight olympic gold medals
has 11 world championship gold medals two silver medals one bronze medal one silver in the world
relays a cac gold medal champion a commonwealth gold medal champion a world junior olympics
gold medal champion and two silvers and a world youth champion and the goal and his career has
got 23 gold medals five silver and one bronze all of those in sprinting 100 meter 200 meter
primarily did a little bit of the 400 meter as well but you know just can't argue with the work
i mean two world records the 200 meter and the 100 meter uh one of the most decorated athletes of all
time and even ran a four two two forty so really can't argue with usain bolt being the number one
sprinter of all time so it comes to no surprise that he is the number one sprinter as always guys
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