Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1984 Olympic Games took place between August 3 and August 4.[1] Eighty-two athletes from 59 countries participated.[2] Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Carl Lewis of the United States, that nation's first title after two Games of missing the podium (4th in 1976, boycotted in 1980). Canada's Ben Johnson took bronze to break up the Americans' bid to sweep the podium (which they had done in 1904 and 1912); it was Canada's first medal in the event since 1964.

Men's 100 metres
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
VenueLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
DatesAugust 3 (heats and quarterfinals)
August 4 (semifinals and final)
Competitors82 from 59 nations
Winning time9.99
Medalists
Carl Lewis
 United States
Sam Graddy
 United States
Ben Johnson
 Canada

Background

This was the twentieth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. Defending gold medal winner Allan Wells of Great Britain was the only finalist from the Moscow Games to return. The American team was strong, led by 1983 World Championships in Athletics winner Carl Lewis, who was attempting to match Jesse Owens's 1936 quaduple (100, 200, 4x100, and long jump). Sam Graddy and Ron Brown were the other members of the United States squad, edging out world record holder and World Championships runner-up Calvin Smith. Challengers to the hosts included World Championship finalists Wells, Paul Narracott of Australia, Christian Haas of West Germany, and Desai Williams of Canada, as well as up-and-coming Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson.[2]

Thirteen nations appeared in the event for the first time: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, the British Virgin Islands, China (in its People's Republic form), Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Mauritius, Oman, Qatar, the Solomon Islands, Swaziland, and the United Arab Emirates. The United States made its 19th appearance in the event, most of any country, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

The event retained the same basic four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The "fastest loser" system, introduced in 1968, was used again to ensure that the quarterfinals and subsequent rounds had exactly 8 runners per heat; this time, the system was used in both the preliminaries and quarterfinals.

The first round consisted of 11 heats, each with 7 or 8 athletes. The top three runners in each heat advanced, along with the next seven fastest runners overall. This made 40 quarterfinalists, who were divided into 5 heats of 8 runners. The top three runners in each quarterfinal advanced, with one "fastest loser" place. The 16 semifinalists competed in two heats of 8, with the top four in each semifinal advancing to the eight-man final.[2][3]

Records

These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics.

World Record 9.93 Calvin Smith Colorado Springs (United States) July 3, 1983
Olympic Record 9.95 Jim Hines Mexico City (Mexico) October 14, 1968

Results

Heats

The top three runners in each of the eleven heats and the next seven fastest, advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Carl Lewis United States10.32Q
2Tony Sharpe Canada10.38Q
3Mike McFarlane Great Britain10.47Q
4Hasely Crawford Trinidad and Tobago10.48q
5Peter Van Miltenburg Australia10.55q
6Vicente Daniel Mozambique10.81
7Henry Ngolwe Zambia10.94
8Paul Réneau Belize10.96

Heat 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Allan Wells Great Britain10.32Q
2Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia10.40Q
3José Javier Arqués Spain10.42Q
4Marc Gasparoni France10.47q
5Emilio Samayoa Guatemala10.84
6Barnabé Messomo Cameroon10.98
7Charles Mbazira Uganda11.03
8Mohamed Abdullah United Arab Emirates11.11

Heat 3

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Desai Williams Canada10.35Q
2Chidi Imoh Nigeria10.39Q
3Charles-Louis Seck Senegal10.45Q
4Christian Nenepath Indonesia10.66
Henri Ndinga Republic of the Congo10.66
6Abdullah Sulaiman Al-Akbary Oman10.86
7Inoke Bainimoli Fiji11.15
8Daniel André Mauritius11.19

Heat 4

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Sumet Promna Thailand10.52Q
2Paul Narracott Australia10.55Q
3Neville Hodge Virgin Islands10.58Q
4Audrick Lightbourne Bahamas10.64
5Gus Young Jamaica10.64
6Bill Trott Bermuda10.76
7Kgosiemang Khumoyarano Botswana11.49

Heat 5

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Sam Graddy United States10.29Q
2Donovan Reid Great Britain10.41Q
3Jürgen Evers West Germany10.54Q
4Hiroki Fuwa Japan10.56
5Philip Attipoe Ghana10.60
6Jean-Yves Mallat Lebanon10.83
7Markus Büchel Liechtenstein10.98
8Clifford Mamba Swaziland11.24

Heat 6

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ray Stewart Jamaica10.24Q
2Antoine Richard France10.35Q
3Antonio Ullo Italy10.36Q
4Paulo Roberto Correia Brazil10.45q
5Anthony Jones Barbados10.69
6Oliver Daniels Liberia10.76
7Muhammad Mansha Pakistan10.87

Heat 7

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ben Johnson Canada10.35Q
2Yu Zhuanghui China10.53Q
3Bruno Marie-Rose France10.59Q
4Earl Haley Guyana10.74
5Julien Thode Netherlands Antilles10.92
6Ronald Russell Virgin Islands11.02
7Denis Rose Seychelles11.04

Heat 8

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ronald Desruelles Belgium10.46Q
2Stefano Tilli Italy10.48Q
3Fred Martin Australia10.64Q
4Luís Barroso Portugal10.76
5Gustavo Envela Equatorial Guinea10.79
6Oumar Fye The Gambia10.87
7Anthony Henry Antigua and Barbuda10.99
8Saidur Rahman Dawn Bangladesh11.25

Heat 9

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ron Brown United States10.58Q
2Luis Morales Puerto Rico10.60Q
3Nelson dos Santos Brazil10.70Q
4Ralf Lübke West Germany10.70
5Collins Mensah Ghana10.92
6Ivan Benjamin Sierra Leone11.13
7Johnson Kere Solomon Islands11.57

Heat 10

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Norman Edwards Jamaica10.57Q
2Dudley Parker Bahamas10.65Q
3Kouadio Otokpa Ivory Coast10.72Q
4Pierfrancesco Pavoni Italy10.72
5Faraj Saad Marzouk Qatar10.78
6Odiya Silweya Malawi11.22
7Glen Abrahams Costa Rica11.31

Heat 11

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Christian Haas West Germany10.41Q
2Alfonso Pitters Panama10.50Q
3Katsuhiko Nakaya Brazil10.55Q
4Bakary Jarjue The Gambia10.68
5Sim Deok-seop South Korea10.72
6Guy Hill British Virgin Islands11.11
7Aldo Salandra El Salvador11.31

Quarterfinals

The top three runners in each of the five heats and the next fastest one, advanced to the semifinal round.

Quarterfinal 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ben Johnson Canada10.41Q
2Donovan Reid Great Britain10.47Q
3Christian Haas West Germany10.51Q
4Hasely Crawford Trinidad and Tobago10.56
5Antonio Ullo Italy10.57
6Bruno Marie-Rose France10.60
7Paul Narracott Australia10.60
8Alfonso Pitters Panama10.63

Quarterfinal 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Sam Graddy United States10.15Q
2Tony Sharpe Canada10.33Q
3Norman Edwards Jamaica10.44Q
4Nelson dos Santos Brazil10.53
5Charles-Louis Seck Senegal10.54
6Yu Zhuanghui China10.59
7Neville Hodge Virgin Islands10.69
Ronald Desruelles BelgiumDNS

Quarterfinal 3

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Stefano Tilli Italy10.39Q
2Ron Brown United States10.40Q
3Marc Gasparoni France10.56Q
4Sumet Promna Thailand10.61
5Katsuhiko Nakaya Brazil10.69
6Hiroki Fuwa Japan10.75
7Philip Attipoe Ghana10.78
8Kouadio Otokpa Ivory Coast10.80

Quarterfinal 4

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ray Stewart Jamaica10.30Q
2Allan Wells Great Britain10.33Q
3Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia10.43Q
4José Javier Arqués Spain10.52
Peter Van Miltenburg Australia10.52
6Antoine Richard France10.53
7Paulo Roberto Correia Brazil10.54
8Audrick Lightbourne Bahamas10.59

Quarterfinal 5

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Carl Lewis United States10.04Q
2Desai Williams Canada10.27Q
3Luis Morales Puerto Rico10.35Q
4Mike McFarlane Great Britain10.36q
5Chidi Imoh Nigeria10.42
6Dudley Parker Bahamas10.58
7Fred Martin Australia10.61
8Jürgen Evers West Germany10.69

Semifinals

The top four runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Semifinal 1

The wind was +0.7 m/s.

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ray Stewart Jamaica10.26Q
2Sam Graddy United States10.27Q
3Donovan Reid Great Britain10.32Q
4Ron Brown United States10.34Q
5Desai Williams Canada10.34
6Christian Haas West Germany10.41
7Marc Gasparoni France10.49
8Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia10.51

Semifinal 2

The wind was -1.5 m/s.

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Carl Lewis United States10.14Q
2Ben Johnson Canada10.42Q
3Mike McFarlane Great Britain10.45Q
4Tony Sharpe Canada10.52Q
5Luis Morales Puerto Rico10.54
6Stefano Tilli Italy10.55
7Norman Edwards Jamaica10.63
8Allan Wells Great Britain10.71

Final

Wind = 0.2 m/s

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Carl Lewis United States9.99
Sam Graddy United States10.19
Ben Johnson Canada10.22
4Ron Brown United States10.26
5Mike McFarlane Great Britain10.27
6Ray Stewart Jamaica10.29
7Donovan Reid Great Britain10.33
8Tony Sharpe Canada10.35

See also

References

  1. "Athletics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. "100 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  3. Official Report, vol. 2, pp. 270–71.
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