The platform used by men and women at the Olympics is a flat, rigid, non-slip surface elevated 10 meters (roughly 32 feet, 9 1/2 inches) above the water. The height is comparable to that of a ...

For 19 years, Koji Ito’s time of 10.00 seconds in 1998 stood as the Japanese record for the 100. Yoshihide Kiryu in 2017 broke that mark and became the first Japanese sprinter to run 100 meters ...