Sam Blaskowski - D3 speedster -- 9.89!

[The Hock]

Jeez the guy's built like a running back. So he's the first white man to break the 9.90 barrier.

One good thing is that he just didn't come out of nowhere. He's been working at it and making some noise for a few years now.

He's worked hard for this moment in the sun.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

I was a huge John Teeters Fan. He gave up sprinting far too soon. Sam Blaskowski reminds me of Teeters. They are both powerhouse sprinters that just explode out of the blocks. Very fun to watch. So happy for Sam B. and I hope he tears it up this summer!

i have spoken with Teeters at length about his early retirement from sprinting, and (not to put words in his mouth) i am confident in saying he left the sport because of the rampant, unchecked use of peds by the WGAs. he ran clean, but history has shown that many of the sprinters he was up against were using “supplements” that were outside the legal bounds of competition.

 

[Freethinker]

This is incredible and came as a total surprise to me!!

So Sam never even went sub 10 and then blows everyone away going sub 9.9! Nuts. I want to say this came totally out of nowhere, but I’m sure the young man works incredibly hard. Either way, I am pleasantly shocked.

 

[LucasBryant]

Just saw this video a few minutes ago. Shocked. It's stunning. Never in my lifetime did I think a man of European descent would run a 9.89. It's just amazing. But it's not just the speed. It's a physical barrier that's been broken and I think, most importantly, it's a psychological breakthrough. The next generation of young White sprinters now knows it's possible. Christophe Lemaitre(9.92) wasn't just a one off.

I always appreciate your opinions, perspective, and insights! You're so right about the next generations!

We disagree on one point within your reply. I expect and have always expected whites to do everything better than all other people groups.

Whether it be of a physical or intellectual nature, whites are capable of accomplishing anything at a level above all others...no doubt we agree on this.

 

[LucasBryant]

i have spoken with Teeters at length about his early retirement from sprinting, and (not to put words in his mouth) i am confident in saying he left the sport because of the rampant, unchecked use of peds by the WGAs. he ran clean, but history has shown that many of the sprinters he was up against were using “supplements” that were outside the legal bounds of competition.

You're absolutely, correct. I have a close friend that officiating in the big ten for many years. He had a conversation with JT and his paraphrase of JT's comments were almost word for word the same as yours.

 

[NWsoccerfan]

While I didn't think Blaskowski would be the first to do it, I could see the trends developing over the past few years and knew at some point 9.9 would fall. Remember guys Lachlan Kennedy may very well go under 9.9 this year too. I'm excited to see what Blaskowski can do over the rest of the year. Is a 9.7 possible at some point for him?

 

[White Lightning]

While I didn't think Blaskowski would be the first to do it, I could see the trends developing over the past few years and knew at some point 9.9 would fall. Remember guys Lachlan Kennedy may very well go under 9.9 this year too. I'm excited to see what Blaskowski can do over the rest of the year. Is a 9.7 possible at some point for him?

I think if he can improve his start a little more he can go faster. Blaskowski only has a p.b. of 6.60 in the 60 meters. Good but far from
great. Being a shorter guy he should be able to get down to around a 6.55 or lower which would help his 100 meters. HIs spped endurance is very good as he as a 20.33 p.b. in the 200 meters. So if I was his coaching I would work on his start & drive phase more. Aside from that there is not much I can see that needs fixing. He is a phenomenal talent!

 

[jacknyc]

Sam Blaskowski at the top of the American Men's 100m.

 

[Ambrose]

Here's another video of his 9.89. This is of no surprise at all at least to me. If the track teams at high school and college were filled with Whites the meets and races would be too. Whites just chose to do other things like thinking while the lame brains run to sports.

 

[freedom1]

Lane 4 really seems to provide an advantage. The next two fastest qualifiers are on your right and left and you can see/feel what they are doing.

 

[sprintstar]

lanes 4/5/6 are the preferred lanes for the 100m sprints. You get a good peripheral view as compared to outside lanes.

 

[mastermulti]

nice to see genuine congrats from his balck team mates and competitors. He's probably a straight up kind of guy and many of his competitors have recognised his talent for years.
I remember Ato Bolden once saying "the more fast white guys there are, the better for the sport". Diversity will lead to more interest from every corner of the globe. Thinking of Lemaitre, Su Bingtian, Puripol Boonson as outliers who were truly good sprinters at world level

 

[sprintfan1234]

Well this was a nice surprise! I wonder if there's anyone else who's gone straight into the 9.8s while skipping the 9.9s?

I was surprised his 60m best is only 6.6 - as White Lightning says, the shorter quadzilla type guys are often faster over 60. Hopefully he can build on this. No major championship this year but it would be great to see a white man representing the US in the individual 100 final at the world champs next summer, and of course at LA 28.

 

[Ambrose]

I remember when I first broke the 300 lb bench press mark. That was a psychological barrier. Once I did it I knew I could keep doing it and do better. I did. The same thing ought to happen in the mind of Blastkowsi (my nickname for him). Now that he has not only gone below 10, but run through 9.9, going below 10 ought to be more routine for him.

 

[Don Wassall]

Well this was a nice surprise! I wonder if there's anyone else who's gone straight into the 9.8s while skipping the 9.9s?

I was surprised his 60m best is only 6.6 - as White Lightning says, the shorter quadzilla type guys are often faster over 60. Hopefully he can build on this. No major championship this year but it would be great to see a white man representing the US in the individual 100 final at the world champs next summer, and of course at LA 28.

Solid first post, hope you keep contributing.

 

[White Lightning]

Sam Blaskowski is a the greatest sprinter in the history of D3 Track & Field. He did not come out of nowwhere. This is the 2025 Drake Relays.

 

[White Lightning]

 

[White Lightning]

Sam Blaskowski ran 9.89 in the 100m at the Music City Track Carnival in Cleveland, Tennessee — a wind-legal personal best that shaved 0.16 off his previous mark of 10.05, made him the fastest American of 2026, and put him at #2 in the world this season. He skipped the 9.90s entirely.He's 23. He went to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, a Division III program where his grandparents live a mile from the stadium and both his parents went to school. He has 11 individual NCAA D3 titles. He spent last off-season working at a small regional airport to save money for his move to Florida, where he now trains under Dennis Mitchell at Star Athletics alongside Kenny Bednarek, Sha'Carri Richardson, and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden. This is his first season with the group.In this conversation, recorded 48 hours after the race, Sam walks us through the full arc — the soccer and swimming background, the YMCA YouTube tutorials during COVID, and the year-over-year drops from 10.29 to 10.13 to 10.09 to 10.05 to 9.89. We get into what his college coach Matt Gordy unlocked in him, what Star Athletics has done to fix the back half of his race, and the financial reality of building a pro sprinting career from a Division III program.Plus: the headline he'd rather people focus on, and why "number two in the world" is the story he wants told.

Citius Mag

 

[Freethinker]

It’s hard to complain about his path to get here, because here we are at a historic moment, but how many elite sprinters go to a DIII program? This is another obvious case of the Caste System, though it sounds like the Covid scam derailed his HS athletic career…

 

[Phall]

It’s hard to complain about his path to get here, because here we are at a historic moment, but how many elite sprinters go to a DIII program? This is another obvious case of the Caste System, though it sounds like the Covid scam derailed his HS athletic career…

That's what jumped out to me, also. He should have been on a six-figure salary from a D1 school of his choosing.

In 2021, high school sprinter Brandon Miller won the 200m nationals with a time of 20.49 (he'd also won the indoor title earlier that year). Miller had to win the collegiate DII nationals at Grand Valley State as a freshman before transferring to finish his sprinting career at Kentucky.