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Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven smashed the all-time Premier League record for top speed during the 3-2 win over Brentford last week – but who else ranks among the elite speedsters?
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The 22-year-old reached a record-breaking speed of 37.38 km/h when he raced back to catch Lewis Keane-Potter, leapfrogging Manchester City speed demon Kyle Walker as the fastest player in Premier League history.
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No other player has smashed the 37 km/h threshold this term to date, with Luton’s Chiedozie Ogbene and Wolves’ Pedro Neto coming closest.
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In fact, Van de Ven joins Walker as the only player to smash past 37 km/h in top-flight history, with City’s full-back clocking 37.31 km/h against Everton in May last year.
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The table below reveals the top 100 speeds recorded since the Premier League’s tracking data providers changed at the start of 2020/21. You can use the scroll and search bars to find players and teams.
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The rankings suggest this campaign could be the fastest ever, with Van de Ven, Ogbene, Neto, Dominik Szoboszlai, Dara O’Shea, Anthony Gordon and Amadou Onana all registering top-10 all-time bursts of speed.
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Every Premier League team has a player who has clocked more than 34 km/h, with the majority smashing past 35 km/h. Unsurprisingly, half of the club’s fastest players are forwards but Ven de Ven is among four centre-backs on the list.
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For context, Usain Bolt clocked 44.72km/h between the 60- and 80-metre points during a 100m race in 2009, while his average speed across the entire distance was 37.58km.
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