3D simulation shows how 100m race between fastest ever female sprinter and average man would look
A 3D simulation has shown how an 100m race between the three fastest women of all-time and an average man would go - and it isn't even a contest.
The title of the world's fastest woman belongs to American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, who ran a staggering 100m time of 10.49 all the way back in 1988.
There has been controversy over whether the anemometer - used to measure wind speeds - was faulty as it recorded a measurement of 0.0, with the IAAF commissioning a study years later which concluded the wind was comfortably beyond legal limits.
But Griffith Joyner ran a time of 10.61 later in the same event, which would have still been the world record until Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah set a time of 10.54 in 2021.
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As it is, the Jamaican is officially the second-fastest woman of all-time, with her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in third.
Back in April, Fraser-Pryce appeared at her son's sports day and, after being asked to compete in the parents' 100m race, crossed the finish line before any of the other competitors had reached half distance.
YouTube channel MotionAthlete decided to run an experiment which involved pitting all three women against an average man.
And to the surprise of absolutely no-one, the three fastest women of all-time won by a huge margin.
The experiment was based off a 'good time' over 100 metres being 14.85 seconds, meaning the man was over four seconds behind any of his nearest competitors.
The race was all over inside around five metres, with the man getting a solid launch off the starting blocks but very quickly losing ground.
As for the leaders, it was Fraser-Pryce who was quickest out of the blocks and led for the first half of the race.
It then transitioned into a neck-and-neck battle between Griffith Joyner and Thompson-Herah, with the American striding clear over the last 15 metres to win.
The two Jamaican sprinters were seen as the two favourites to win 100m gold at Paris 2024, but both did not compete in the final for different reasons.
Thompson-Herah suffered an Achilles tendon injury in 2023 and missed the Games completely, while Fraser-Pryce - in her fifth and likely final Olympics at the age of 37 - suffered an injury in the warmup prior to her semi-final and was forced to withdraw.
After winning three gold medals - including the setting of a new 200m world record - at the Seoul 1988 Olympics, Griffith Joyner abruptly retired from athletics a year later at the age of 29.
She died in her sleep at the age of 38 after suffering a severe epileptic seizure, caused by a rare birth defect.
Ryan Smart