Slowest 100m race at the Daegu World Championships: Sogelau Tuvalu

And the Award for the slowest male sprinter in Daegu goes to Sogelau Tuvalu. He's a 17 year old track and field athlete from American Samoa.

Now Tuvalu had hoped to participate in the shot put event but after failing to qualify he tried for the next best thing...the 100 metres. He made the Samoan team and next thing you know, he's in Daegu running in the heats.

Tuvalu clocked a whopping 15.66 seconds, the second slowest 100m race in World Championship History. He also had rather slow reaction time of .269 seconds which really meant he was never really in the runnings, but I gotta hand it to the guy for trying. Despite being at the back of the field he did not give up and ran all the way to the line. However I just cannot get over the HUGE margin between himself and the other sprinters.



Savannah Sanitoa

 What's really shocking to me is that Samoa has produced a female sprinter who's actually ran faster than Tuvali.

At the 2009 Berlin Championships Savannah Sanitoa clocked 14.23 secs in the first round of the women's 100m. Coincidentally Sanitoa was also a shotputter before she turned her attention to sprinting.

I won't knock Samoa for trying, you never know what could happen in a decade or so.