Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the III Olympiad
Venue	Francis Field
Dates	September 3
Competitors	11 from 3 nations
Medalists
Archie Hahn   United States   Nathaniel Cartmell   United States   William Hogenson   United States

Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Track events
60 m		men
100 m		men
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
200 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
2590 m steeplechase		men
4 mile team race		men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Standing long jump	men
Standing triple jump	men
Standing high jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
56 pound weight throw	men
Combined events
Triathlon	men
All-around	men

The men's 100 metres was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third time the event was held. 11 athletes from 3 nations participated. The competition was held on September 3, 1904.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1904 Summer Olympics.

World Record	10.8(*)	Luther Cary	Paris (FRA)	July 4, 1891
	10.8(*)	Cecil Lee	Brussels (BEL)	September 25, 1892
	10.8(*)	Etienne De Re	Brussels (BEL)	August 4, 1893
	10.8(*)	L. Atcherley	Frankfurt/Main (GER)	April 13, 1895
	10.8(*)	Harry Beaton	Rotterdam (NED)	August 28, 1895
	10.8(*)	Harald Anderson-Arbin	Helsingborg (SWE)	August 9, 1896
	10.8(*)	Isaac Westergren	Gävle (SWE)	September 11, 1898
	10.8(*)	Isaac Westergren	Gävle (SWE)	September 10, 1899
	10.8(*)	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8(*)	Walter Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8(*)	Carl Ljung	Stockholm (SWE)	September 23, 1900
	10.8(*)	Walter Tewksbury	Philadelphia (USA)	October 6, 1900
	10.8(*)	André Passat	Bordeaux (FRA)	June 14, 1903
	10.8(*)	Louis Kuhn	Bordeaux (FRA)	June 14, 1903
	10.8(*)	Harald Grønfeldt	Aarhus (DEN)	July 5, 1903
	10.8(*)	Eric Frick	Jönköping (SWE)	August 9, 1903
Olympic Record	10.8	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8	Walter Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900

(*) unofficial

Results

Heats

The top two finishers in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Archie Hahn (USA)	11.4	QF
2	Lawson Robertson (USA)		QF
3	Béla Mező (HUN)

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	William Hogenson (USA)	11.6	QF
2	Frederick Heckwolf (USA)		QF
3	Robert Kerr (CAN)
4	Myer Prinstein (USA)

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Nathaniel Cartmell (USA)	11.4	QF
2	Fay Moulton (USA)		QF
3	Clyde Blair (USA)
4	Frank Castleman (USA)

Final

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Archie Hahn (USA)	11.0
2	Nathaniel Cartmell (USA)	11.2
3	William Hogenson (USA)	11.2
4	Fay Moulton (USA)
5	Frederick Heckwolf (USA)
6	Lawson Robertson (USA)

Sources

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 13 December 2006.