Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres
at the Games of the X Olympiad

Venue

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Dates

July 31, 1932 (heats, quarterfinals)
August 1, 1932 (semifinals, final)

Competitors

33 from 17 nations

Winning time

10.3 seconds

Medalists

	Eddie Tolan	United States
	Ralph Metcalfe	United States
	Arthur Jonath	Germany

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States, were held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on July 31 and August 1. The photo finish final was won by American Eddie Tolan in a world record equalling time of 10.38 seconds. Teammate Ralph Metcalfe won the silver and was credited with the same time as Tolan.^[1] Defending Olympic champion and world record holder Percy Williams of Canada did not advance past the semifinals.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Eddie Tolan	United States	10.38	EWR
02 !	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.38	EWR
03 !	Arthur Jonath	Germany	10.50
4	George Simpson	United States	10.53
5	Danie Joubert	South Africa	10.60
6	Takayoshi Yoshioka	Japan	10.79

Key: EWR = Equalled world record; names in blue qualified for next round; OR=Olympic record; EOR= Equalled Olympic record

Note that the runners were judged to have finished the race when they had crossed the line. In 1933, the rules were changed such that the runners finished the race when they reached the line. Had the current rules been in effect then Metcalfe would have been the winner. Melcalfe reached the finish line first, but Tolan, a shorter man,^[2] crossed the line first.^[3]^[4]

Records

These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.

World Record	10.3	Percy Williams	Toronto (CAN)	August 9, 1930
Olympic Record	10.6	Donald Lippincott	Stockholm (SWE)	July 6, 1912
	10.6	Charlie Paddock	Antwerp (BEL)	August 16, 1920
	10.6	Harold Abrahams	Paris (FRA)	July 6/7 1924
	10.6	Robert McAllister	Amsterdam (NED)	July 29/30 1928
	10.6	Percy Williams	Amsterdam (NED)	July 30, 1928
	10.6	Wilfred Legg	Amsterdam (NED)	July 30, 1928

Arthur Jonath equalled the standing Olympic record with 10.6 in the third heat of the first round. Eddie Tolan set a new Olympic record with 10.4 in the first heat of the quarterfinals, and equalled the world record of 10.3 in the final along with Ralph Metcalfe.

Preliminaries

Heats

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Eddie Tolan	United States	10.9
2	José de Almeida	Brazil	11.0
3	Fernando Ortíz	Mexico	11.2
4	André Théard	Haiti	11.4
5	António Rodrigues	Portugal	11.5
DNF	Fred Reid	Great Britain

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	George Simpson	United States	10.9
2	Ernie Page	Great Britain	11.1
3	Andrej Engel	Czechoslovakia	11.2
4	Bunoo Sutton	India	11.4
5	Liu Changchun	China	11.5

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Arthur Jonath	Germany	10.6	EOR
2	Allan Elliot	New Zealand	10.8
3	Izuo Anno	Japan	10.9
4	Ronald Vernieux	India	11.0
5	Samuel Giacosa	Argentina	11.1

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Carlos Bianchi	Argentina	10.8
2	Helmut Körnig	Germany	11.0
3	Percy Williams	Canada	11.1
4	Jesús Moraila	Mexico	11.2

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	11.0
2	Bert Pearson	Canada	11.1
3	Angelos Lambrou	Greece	11.3
4	Fernando Ramírez	Mexico	11.4

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Danie Joubert	South Africa	11.0
2	Harold Wright	Canada	11.2
3	Ernst Geerling	Germany	11.3
4	Ricardo Guimarães	Brazil	11.4

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Takayoshi Yoshioka	Japan	10.9
2	Chris Berger	Netherlands	11.1
3	Héctor Berra	Argentina	11.2
4	Stanley Fuller	Great Britain	11.3
5	Mario Marques	Brazil	11.5

Quarterfinals

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Eddie Tolan	United States	10.53	OR
2	Carlos Bianchi	Argentina	10.5
3	Percy Williams	Canada	10.7
4	Chris Berger	Netherlands	10.7
5	Fernando Ortíz	Mexico	11.0

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	George Simpson	United States	10.74
2	Harold Wright	Canada	10.9
3	Helmut Körnig	Germany	11.0
4	Andrej Engel	Czechoslovakia	11.1

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.77
2	Takayoshi Yoshioka	Japan	10.8
3	Allan Elliot	New Zealand	10.9
4	Ernie Page	Great Britain	10.9
5	Ernst Geerling	Germany	11.1

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Arthur Jonath	Germany	10.68
2	Danie Joubert	South Africa	10.6
3	Bert Pearson	Canada	10.7
4	José de Almeida	Brazil	10.8
5	Izuo Anno	Japan	10.9

Semifinals

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Eddie Tolan	United States	10.81
2	Danie Joubert	South Africa	10.81
3	Takayoshi Yoshioka	Japan	10.83
4	Percy Williams	Canada	10.91
5	Allan Elliot	New Zealand	11.0
6	Helmut Körnig	Germany	11.2

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.65
2	George Simpson	United States	10.70
3	Arthur Jonath	Germany	10.71
4	Carlos Bianchi	Argentina	10.73
5	Bert Pearson	Canada	10.95
6	Harold Wright	Canada	11.1

Key: EWR = Equalled world record; names in blue qualified for next round; OR=Olympic record; EOR= Equalled Olympic record; DNF = did not finish

References

↑ "Tolan wins by two inches in Olympic 100 meters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. August 2, 1932. p. 1.
↑ "Friends and rivals". Milwaukee Journal. World Wide photo. August 3, 1932. p. 3, part 2.
↑ Wolf, Bob (July 26, 1984). "Olympic blunder". Milwaukee Journal. p. 3, part 3.
↑ Rice, Grantland (August 2, 1932). "Tolan-Metcalfe race greatest in Olympic history, says Rice". Milwaukee Journal. NANA. p. 4, part 2.

External links

1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-01-27.
, from http://www.omegawatches.com/; retrieved 2012-10-01.

100 metres at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Complete event history

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Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

See also: Men's 100 m at the 1906 Intercalated Games Men's 60 metres: 1900 1904

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