As a Jamaican I will forever be grateful to Asafa, he brought glory to our island and showed whats possible. He paved the way for Usain.

Asafa Powell had the perfect body mechanics for sprinting. His form is flawless from start to finish. The field that he obliterated in this video included the silver and bronze medallists from the olympic final run only a few weeks before this race. If only he had the mental game to go along with this, he might have placed well in the bigger meets. Bolt would still have his number regardless, but by a smaller margin.

Being tall, muscular and still manage to pull such starts, clean quick acceleration and overall just wonderful running technique is not common at all. It's no secret that Powell's worst enemy was his mental status right before the race. Love watching him run.

Who else thinks that he has the best form in men's sprinting?

One of the greatest ever runners. Technically and naturally just perfect.

He should have ran like this in every championship final. I know this dude had a mid 9.6 in him. Such a shame he couldn't get out of his own head when it mattered most.

His best race ever. When he runs relaxed like this he was so quick. He tensed up at the major meets

Insane that no one now is even remotely touching this times. 9.80 won the Olympic title and 9.83 the Olympics championship and also the Diamond League. One of the deepest eras in the history of sport, and dominated by a small island of 3M people. Legendary.

That moment you came 5th at the Olympics and then next week you run 9.72s. Like WTF, man?

Beautiful sprinter, it is a pleasure to watch Asafa run. His form and technique is remarkable. Big up Mr. Powell!

when asafa powell is relaxed he is the greatest of all time when it comes to sprint mechanics and smoothness

Jamaica got the best sprinters, Asafa, Yohan Blake, Bolt, same as the females, Shelley Ann, Elaine Thompson. I bow to these masters. Greetings from Warsaw Poland. 🇯🇲🇵🇱

The most beautiful running style of the top Jamaican sprinters (sorry Blake and Bolt) . Asafa deserves his place amongst the legends of sprinting.

It's the first i am seeing this video of Asafa back then. His starting point was incredible. Excellent 👏

This is my cousin. London was supposed to be his year until the devastating hamstring injury. Sad to see a potential prospect go down like that

Asafa Powell is one of my favourite athlete he has the most sub 10sec times in history and I don't think anyone will come close to that for a long time but he choked at the big meets

The craziest thing to me when I watch Usain and Asafa run is how bad they demolished dudes who demolished me haha. I ran against Dix, Gay, Spearmon, Thompson, Carter and others in college, and I didn't stand a chance. Watching how far back those guys are to those two will forever be insane to me

Still the most beautiful sprinter of all time. Those starts were just mesmerising to watch.

Loved me some Asafa... what a great sprinter he was.

Asafa Powell use to be my favorite 100m runner. Since he started losing his confidence especially against Usain Bolt, it just going downhill for him.

4:53 AWSOME

Still probably my favorite race of all time. That drivephase omg!

If only he ran like this at the Beijing Olympics! Wasted chance but a phenomenal athlete nonetheless.

*i like Asafa Powell run style* 👏😁

That was majestic. A beautiful run

The fact that this wasnt a WL speaks volumes about the speed of runners during this period

Asafa Powell was BLAZING FAST in this video, wish he had this when Bolt was running, it would be very interesting to watch.

No matter who comes and says about Bolt and 100 M running for me the best man to run the 100 M track is this man right here Asafa Powell.... If he had just as good a trainer and a mentality of Bolt he would be on another level... So much respect for this man...

Love the enthusiasm of the announcers, especially when Asafa crosses the line and the time of 9.72 pops up and they’re like WHOA. The perfect race.

人類で最も美しいフォームで走れる選手だと思う

Bolt's body is not built for 100m with his enormous height. But Asafa's is perfect. The height, built, stride and ofcourse no hair 🔥😎

Great run . That awesome start and drive phase came from doing 200 starts per day during training

9.72 with just +0.2m/s wind. Imagine what he would run if he had +1.5 - 2.0m/s wind!

You gotta respect his endless acknowledgement to the crowd 😊

MY JAMAICAN PEOPLE ARE AMAZING ASAFA WILL ALWAYS BE OUR SUPERSTAR

I think he was completely relaxed during the run... his problem in great events was mental strength

Nuff Respect Asafa Powell🔥

Stephen Francis is a GOAT. He always manages to take underdogs and turn them into elite athletes. Plus he equips them with all the tools they need to have an impeccable form from start to finish. Most of his athletes, including this one, have admitted that when they first started training with him, their form was a mess. So what he was able to to with them on that front is simply amazing.

Best physic, ever, in sprinting!

This is the best executed race ever

For Asafa, I would say simply: physics 100% psyche 0%.

It's strange how that he doesn't normally have such strong peformances when the field includes Sprinters like Blake, Bolt, Galtin and Gay.

That sidecam is sick!

Asafa Powell in his prime was a monster

Powell made it look so easy!!! Man!!

No other colour on that sprint. Fire 🥵🔥🖤

Powell has to be the most underrated sprinter in the world...

Powell was the perfect sprinter.

Those Days when powell was the Big man of the 100m 9.72

しっかり脱力して自分の走りが出来ているときのパウエルは速いなぁ

Powell could have easily a 9,6.... in his career. What a Sprinter!

For once he ran all the way to the line! If he had done that at his 9.74-race in Rieti, then the time would have been even faster than this one!

+Jonny Woodburn If you look closely at the side profile towards the end of the race, it looks like powell relaxes. Am I the only one that sees this?

Best form, indeed. Many great sprinters say his form is flawless. But he have the stride length of Bolt. Bolts stride length ment Bolt didn’t have to be perfect, and that gave him immense confidence and mental strength. Powell was more vulnerable on the mental front.

his chances of 9.6 or better have come & gone because he became familiar with settling towards the end of the race. he likes to make it look easy. That was his problem.

Luv Safa one of the greatest ❤

Best 100m technician EVER!

When you realise 2008 is 'ONLY' 11 years ago.

I once ran 8.6......... 60 metres ;)

Former world record holder, but only achieved two bronze medals in world level games. Such a pity.

美しい

He my be the greatest sprinting form all times..i think yohan blake mechanic is right up there too.. especially his firm in 2012..

Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt, the unbreakable record for 4x100m.

his technical way of running is just so smooth

This man run for a business. He wins all his money races. Best starter in the world. Sub 10 king

I believe Asafa Powell could deliver BIGTIME in 2015, if he stays away from injuries

Asafa Powell has to have one of the coolest names. ASAFA BLOODCLART POWELL!!!!!

The synchrony between him and Walter Dix floating is supercool 😂

The probleme of Asafa was he had developped some kind of psychological blocage when running with strong finisher like tyson gay and bolt.... So smooth when run like this

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Ben Johnson , Carl Lewis , donovan Bailey , michael Johnson, Maurice Greene,asafa Powell, Justin Gatlin , Tyson gay , Usain Bolt , steve mullings, nesta Carter, su bingtain , Christian Coleman , Noah lyles , marcell jackobs

Cleanest sprinting ever

Asafa Powell, 🐐🐐🐐💯

Top 30 greatest sprinting performance (Male and Female) Top 30 Men: 1. Bolt 100 2009 9.58 2. Bolt 200 2009 19.19 3. Warholm 400h 2021 45.94 4. Blake 200 2011 19.26 5. Bolt 200 2008 19.30 6. Bolt 100 2012 19.63 7. Lyles 200 2022 19.31 8. Johnson 200 1996 19.32 9. Bolt 200 2012 19.32 10. Benjamin 400h 2021 46.17 11. Dos Santos 400h 2022 46.29 12. Van Nierkerk 400 2016 43.03 13. JAM 4x100 2012 36.84 14. Bolt 100 2008 9.69 15. Gay 100 2009 9.69 16. Bolt 200 2011 19.40 17. Blake 100 2012 9.69 18. Johnson 400 1999 43.18 19. Blake 200 2012 19.44 20. Gay 100 2009 9.71 21. Bolt 100 2008 9.72 22. Powell 100 2008 9.72 23. JAM 4x100 2011 37.04 24. Knighton 200 2022 19.49 25. Reynold 400 1988 43.29 26. Lyles 200 2019 19.50 27. Warholm 400h 2021 46.70 28. Dos Santos 400h 2021 46.72 29. Powell 100 2007 9.74 30. Gatlin 100 2015 9.74 Top 30 Women: 1. Flojo 100 1988 10.49 2. Sydney 400h 2022 50.68 3. Flojo 200 1988 21.34 4. Koch 400 1985 46.70 5. ETH 100 2021 10.54 6. Shericka 200 2022 21.45 7. Shelly 100 2021 10.60 8. Jarmila 400 1983 47.99 9. ETH 200 2021 21.53 10. Sydney 400h 2022 51.41 11. Flojo 100 1988 10.61 12. ETH 100 2021 10.61 13. Sydney 400h 2021 51.46 14. Shericka 200 2022 21.55 15. Flojo 100 1988 10.62 16. Flojo 200 1988 21.56 17. Shelly 100 2021 10.63 18. Dalilah 400h 2021 51.58 19. Naser 400 2019 48.14 20. Koch 400 1982 48.16 21. Koch 400 1984 48.16 22. Sydney 400h 2022 51.61 23. Jeter 100 2009 10.64 24. ETH 100 2021 10.64 25. Thomas 200 2021 21.61 26. Koch 400 1986 48.22 27. Jones 200 1998 21.62 28. Perec 400 1996 48.25 29. Jones 100 1998 10.65 30. Schippers 200 2015 21.63 I am not accounting for different eras and progression of tracks and shoes. I am just going off purely times. Any performance you think shouldn't be on the list or I left out ?

I remember when everyone thought dix was next up to be the fastest man

Clean cut 🎉❤

When the track and field world belonged to mr powell.

I always believed Asafa Powell had the perfect body for a top sprinter. I’m sure he could have run legally under 9.70 . However he could never put it together in major events ! It’s a shame .

Imagine asafa powell as a running back

Powell is Great start , but Bolt is great top end speed.

Now this is a 9.72 which is nice speed too

haha he just ran a race at full speed and gives signatures at the end. so cool :>D

Asafa should got the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics but a suh it guh

I think this race is best performance in his carrier

While he has always been criticized for not keeping up with his best times in Olympics, once should also realise that it's all about the day, weather, the body response, etc. The margin at the highest level is so small that minor downside on the day can make one slide down to 5th position and on a good day, give a world record performance. Same happened with Lyles in 200m

What an insane time

最後ちょっと流してるな…

Just look at those cameraman.. so energetic ❤

This was ridiculously fast

4:54 EPIC

My favorite

It’s crazy cause he isn’t even moving his legs as fast as the other sprinters in the last 40 meters he’s just gliding with such a long stride, at great speed it’s ridiculous

I am ur fan asafa Powell I like it stride length super

I love asafa.it is very very sad he dont win in a gold medal

dont understand how someone can beat you by a meter a few weeks ago and then you go out and beat him by 4. enigma

no...that +2.0 wind would have been recorded when the race started.. during the race the wind will change many times... they could finish with a head wind so there is no point predicting it... because there wont be a constant +2.0 wind during the race..

World record holder of 100m men

ここでまた世界記録更新してたら最高にアツい展開だったなぁ

Damn he destroyed here everyone lol.

4:53 when the eight of them are about to shit themselves and theres only one bathroom