Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium Rome, Italy
Dates	31 August (heats, quarterfinals) 1 September 1960 (semifinals, final)
Competitors	65 from 48 nations
Winning time	10.2 seconds
Medalists
Armin Hary   Germany   Dave Sime   United States   Peter Radford   Great Britain

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. The competition was held at the Olympic Stadium on 31 August and 1 September. Sixty-five competitors from 48 nations entered, but 61 competitors from 46 nations participated.

Results

Final

100 m final, left-right: Armin Hary, Peter Radford, Enrique Figuerola, Ray Norton, Frank Budd, Dave Sime

Armin Hary and Dave Sime tied the Olympic record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Armin Hary	Germany	10.2 seconds	=OR
	Dave Sime	United States	10.2 seconds	=OR
	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.3 seconds
4	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.3 seconds
5	Frank Budd	United States	10.3 seconds
6	Ray Norton	United States	10.4 seconds

• Wind speed = -0.0 m/s

Preliminaries

Heats

The top three runners in each of the 9 heats advanced. Heat one

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
2	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	10.7 seconds
3	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
4	Suthi Maniagas	Thailand	10.8 seconds
5	Mikhail Batcharov	Bulgaria	11.0 seconds
6	Amos Grodzinowsky	Israel	11.1 seconds
7	Raj Joshi Tilak	India	11.3 seconds

Heat two

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	10.5 seconds
2	Armin Hary	Germany	10.6 seconds
3	Heinz Müller	Switzerland	10.8 seconds
4	Gustav Ntiforo	Ghana	11.0 seconds
5	Isaac Gómez	Philippines	11.0 seconds
6	Dennis Tipping	Australia	11.2 seconds
7	Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	11.2 seconds

Heat three

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.4 seconds
2	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	10.4 seconds
3	Dave Sime	United States	10.5 seconds
4	Lynn Eves	Canada	10.8 seconds
5	Aggrey Awori	Uganda	10.9 seconds
6	Patrick Lowry	Ireland	10.9 seconds
7	Roba Negousse	Ethiopia	11.3 seconds

Heat four

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.5 seconds
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.5 seconds
3	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	10.6 seconds
4	Alfonso Da Silva	Brazil	10.8 seconds
5	Bouchaib El-Maachi	Morocco	10.9 seconds
6	Shahrudin Mohamed Ali	Malaya	10.9 seconds
-	James Omagbemi	Nigeria	DNS

heat five

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.5 seconds
2	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	10.7 seconds
3	Sitiveni Moceidreke	Fiji	10.8 seconds
4	George Short	Canada	10.9 seconds
5	Emmanuel Putu	Liberia	11.2 seconds
6	Kim Jong-Cheol	South Korea	11.5 seconds

Heat six

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ray Norton	United States	10.7 seconds
2	Gusman Kosanov	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
3	Santiago Plaza	Mexico	10.8 seconds
4	Walter Mahlendorf	Germany	10.8 seconds
5	Romain Poté	Belgium	11.0 seconds
6	Aydin Onur	Turkey	11.3 seconds
7	Abdul Hadi Shekaib	Afghanistan	11.6 seconds

Heat seven

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	David Jones	Great Britain	10.5 seconds
2	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.6 seconds
3	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	10.7 seconds
4	Elmar Kunauer	Austria	11.0 seconds
5	Huang Suh-chuang	Republic of China	11.2 seconds
6	Khudhir Zalata	Iraq	11.3 seconds
-	Iftikhar Shah	Pakistan	DNF

Heat eight

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marian Foik	Poland	10.5 seconds
2	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	10.6 seconds
3	Claude Piquemal	France	10.7 seconds
4	Jalal Gozal	Indonesia	10.9 seconds
5	Manfred Germar	Germany	11.0 seconds
6	Hamdan El-Tayeb	Sudan	11.1 seconds
7	José Albarrán	Spain	11.2 seconds

Heat nine

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
2	Frank Budd	United States	10.4 seconds
3	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
4	Hilmar Thorbjörnsson	Iceland	10.9 seconds
5	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.0 seconds
6	Moustafa Abdel Kader	United Arab Republic	11.2 seconds
7	James Roberts	Liberia	11.2 seconds

Quarterfinal

The top three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.

Heat one

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.5 seconds
2	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.6 seconds
3	Ray Norton	United States	10.6 seconds
4	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.7 seconds
5	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	10.7 seconds
6	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
7	Heinz Müller	Switzerland	10.8 seconds

Heat two

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Armin Hary	Germany	10.2 seconds OR
2	Dave Sime	United States	10.3 seconds
3	Marian Foik	Poland	10.4 seconds
4	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	10.4 seconds
5	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	10.5 seconds
6	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.5 seconds
7	Sitiveni Moceidreke	Fiji	10.7 seconds

Heat three

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Frank Budd	United States	10.4 seconds
2	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
3	David Jones	Great Britain	10.5 seconds
4	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	10.6 seconds
5	Claude Piquemal	France	10.6 seconds
6	Gusman Kosanov	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
7	Santiago Plaza	Mexico	10.8 seconds

Heat four

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.4 seconds
2	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
3	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	10.4 seconds
4	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.4 seconds
5	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	10.8 seconds
6	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	11.1 seconds

Semifinals

The top three runners in each of the two semifinals advanced to the final.

Heat one

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
2	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
3	Frank Budd	United States	10.5 seconds
4	Marian Foik	Poland	10.5 seconds
5	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.5 seconds
-	Harry Jerome	Canada	DNF

Heat two

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Armin Hary	Germany	10.3 seconds
2	Dave Sime	United States	10.4 seconds
3	Ray Norton	United States	10.4 seconds
4	David Jones	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
5	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.5 seconds
6	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	10.6 seconds

References

• Olympic Report 1960 Volume 2
• Sports Reference 1960 100m