Is 8 kilometers per hour as fast as Usain Bolt?
It's about one-fifth as fast as Usain Bolt
The speed of Usain Bolt is about 37.10 kilometers per hour.
(at the Beijing Olympics, 2008) (a.k.a. Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, C.D.) (sprinter; 1986-)
Setting a world record, Usain Bolt ran a
100 m in
0:09.69 for an average speed of
37.2 kph at the 2008 Olympics. Furthermore, Bolt's margin of record breaking —
0.03 s — is the largest margin of victory in the history of digital measurements.
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