1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 9 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	10.11	Q, NR
1	6	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.11	Q
3	7	Tim Montgomery	United States	10.12	Q
4	5	Michael Marsh	United States	10.16	Q
4	10	Eric Nkansah	Nigeria	10.16	Q
6	4	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.17	Q
7	10	Percival Spencer	Jamaica	10.18	Q
8	9	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	10.21	Q
9	10	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.21	Q, SB
11	7	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	10.22	Q
11	11	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.22	Q
11	12	Robert Esmie	Canada	10.22	Q
14	12	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.23	Q
15	8	Seun Ogunkoya	Nigeria	10.24	Q
15	12	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.24	Q, SB
17	4	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.25	Q, SB
17	9	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	Russia	10.25	Q, SB
19	4	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	10.26	q
19	7	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	10.26	Q, PB
19	9	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.26	Q
19	11	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.26	Q
23	1	André da Silva	Brazil	10.28	Q
23	9	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	10.28	q, NR
25	5	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.30	Q
25	10	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	10.30	q, SB
27	1	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.31	Q
28	3	Maurice Greene	United States	10.32	Q
28	3	Peter Karlsson	Sweden	10.32	Q, SB
28	8	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	10.32	Q
28	11	Jone Delai	Fiji	10.32	Q
28	13	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.32	Q
33	6	Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda	Cuba	10.33	Q
34	4	Renward Wells	Bahamas	10.34	q
34	4	Martin Lachkovics	Austria	10.34	q, PB
34	11	Donovan Powell	Jamaica	10.34	q
37	5	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	10.35	Q
37	7	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	10.35	q
39	12	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	10.36	q
40	2	Marcin Krzywański	Poland	10.37	Q
41	2	Andrey Fedoriv	Russia	10.38	Q
41	8	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	10.38	Q
42	2	Stephane Cali	France	10.39	Q
44	10	Hiroyasu Tsuchie	Japan	10.40	q
45	3	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	10.41	Q
45	12	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	10.41
47	3	Per Ivar Sivle	Norway	10.42
47	6	Ian Mackie	Great Britain	10.42	Q
47	7	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.42
50	1	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	10.43	Q
50	6	Carlos Gats	Argentina	10.43	SB
50	11	Chintake De Zoysa	Sri Lanka	10.43
50	13	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.43	Q
54	2	Torbjörn Mårtensson	Sweden	10.46
54	5	Koji Ito	Japan	10.46
56	6	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	10.47
57	13	Saad Al-Kuwari	Qatar	10.48	Q
58	1	Carlton Chambers	Canada	10.49
58	11	Anvar Kuchmuradov	Uzbekistan	10.49
60	6	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	10.50
60	8	Issa-Aime Nthepe	Cameroon	10.50
60	9	Carlos Villasenor	Mexico	10.50
63	1	Paulo Neves	Portugal	10.51
64	3	Dennis Mowatt	Jamaica	10.52
64	5	Joseph Styles	Bahamas	10.52
66	6	Carlos Moreno	Chile	10.53
67	7	Frutos Feo	Spain	10.54
68	12	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	10.55
69	13	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	10.56
70	2	Neil Ryan	Ireland	10.57
71	5	Alexandros Genovelis	Greece	10.58
72	13	Jose Illan	Spain	10.60
73	2	Tommy Kafri	Israel	10.64
73	8	Tomaž Božič	Slovenia	10.64
75	8	Horace Dove-Edwin	Sierra Leone	10.65
76	4	Ruslan Rusidze	Georgia	10.67
76	5	Wai Lok To	Hong Kong	10.67
78	3	Nigel Jones	Grenada	10.68
79	2	Patrick Mocci Raoumbe	Gabon	10.69
80	7	Lee Heyeong-Gum	South Korea	10.73
81	3	Antonio Serpas	El Salvador	10.77
81	12	Peter Pulu	Papua New Guinea	10.77
83	1	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	10.78
83	3	De-Von Bean	Bermuda	10.78
85	9	Gabriel Simon	Argentina	10.79
86	7	Mohd Mahbub Alam	Bangladesh	10.83
87	1	Toluta'u Koula	Tonga	10.85
88	9	Maocha Mpho	Botswana	10.86
89	8	Mario Bonello	Malta	10.92
89	13	Amarildo Almeida	Guinea-Bissau	10.92
91	10	Laurence Jack	Vanuatu	10.97
92	12	Trevor Davis	Angola	11.07
93	13	Huang Hsin-Ping	Chinese Taipei	11.09
94	4	Albert Shaw Elston	Belize	11.13
95	8	Mohamed Amir	Maldives	11.18	NR
96	10	Detrickson Anson	Federated States of Micronesia	11.47
97	1	Watson Nyambek	Malaysia	11.60
98	2	Nelson Kabitana	Solomon Islands	11.61
99	11	Norberto Nsue Ondo	Equatorial Guinea	11.65
100	11	Daniel Adachi	Palau	11.90
101	5	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	21.73
	9	Venancio José	Spain	DQ
	10	Igor Strakh	Ukraine	DNF

First 2 of each Heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	9.87	Q, WL
2	1	Maurice Greene	United States	9.90	Q
3	3	Tim Montgomery	United States	9.99	Q
3	6	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	9.99	Q
5	4	Michael Marsh	United States	10.05	Q
6	2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.06	Q, SB
7	3	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.10	Q
8	6	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.11	Q
9	3	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.13	q, PB
10	5	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.15	Q
11	5	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	10.17	Q
11	6	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.17	q
13	3	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	10.21	q
13	6	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.21	q
15	1	Andrey Fedoriv	Russia	10.22
15	2	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	10.22	Q
17	1	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	10.23	PB
17	4	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.23	Q, SB
19	1	Ian Mackie	Great Britain	10.24
20	2	Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda	Cuba	10.25
20	4	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.25
20	5	Robert Esmie	Canada	10.25
23	3	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	10.26	PB
24	4	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	Russia	10.27
25	6	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	10.29
26	5	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.31
27	2	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	10.32
28	1	Marcin Krzywański	Poland	10.33
28	2	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	10.33
28	4	Seun Ogunkoya	Nigeria	10.33
31	2	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.34
31	5	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	10.34
33	4	Donovan Powell	Jamaica	10.35
34	5	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.36
35	4	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	10.37
35	6	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	10.37
37	1	Hiroyasu Tsuchie	Japan	10.38
38	4	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	10.39
38	6	Martin Lachkovics	Austria	10.39
40	1	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	10.40
40	3	Saad Al-Kuwari	Qatar	10.40	PB
40	3	Peter Karlsson	Sweden	10.40
43	6	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.41
44	2	Stephane Cali	France	10.47
44	5	Jone Delai	Fiji	10.47
46	5	Renward Wells	Bahamas	10.57
47	3	André da Silva	Brazil	12.56
	2	Percival Spencer	Jamaica	DNS

First 4 of each Semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Maurice Greene	United States	9.90	Q
2	2	Donovan Bailey	Canada	9.91	Q, SB
3	2	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	9.93	Q
4	1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.00	Q
5	2	Tim Montgomery	United States	10.08	Q
6	1	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.15	Q
7	2	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.18
8	2	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	10.20
9	1	Michael Marsh	United States	10.21	Q
10	1	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.22	Q
11	1	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	10.29
12	1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.30
12	2	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	10.30
14	1	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.33
14	2	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.33
16	1	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.37