Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Tokyo, Japan
Dates14 October (heats, quarterfinals)
15 October 1964 (semifinals, finals)
Competitors76 from 49 nations
Winning time10.0 seconds
Medalists
 Bob Hayes  United States
 Enrique Figuerola  Cuba
 Harry Jerome  Canada
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Athletics at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
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800 m men women
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5000 m men
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80 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
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3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
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Marathon men
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Long jump men women
Triple jump men
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The men's 100 metres was the shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo, Japan. It was held at the Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 October 1964. 76 athletes from 49 nations entered, with 3 not starting in the first round. The first two rounds were held on 14 October, with the semifinals and the final on the following day.

In the final, American Bob Hayes tied the world record of 10.0 seconds and won the gold medal. Enrique Figuerola of Cuba and Harry Jerome of Canada tied the old Olympic record time and both won silver.

Results

Final

Place Athlete Nation Time Note
1st Bob Hayes United States 10.0 seconds =WR
2nd Enrique Figuerola Cuba 10.2 seconds
2nd Harry Jerome Canada 10.2 seconds
4 Wiesław Maniak Poland 10.4 seconds
5 Heinz Schumann Germany 10.4 seconds
6 Gaoussou Koné Ivory Coast 10.4 seconds
7 Mel Pender United States 10.4 seconds
8 Tom Robinson Bahamas 10.5 seconds


Note that until the Tokyo Olympics world records were measured by officials with stopwatches, measured to the nearest tenth of a second. Although fully automatic timing was used in Tokyo, the times were given the appearance of manual timing. This was done by subtracting 0.05 seconds from the automatic time and rounding to the nearest tenth of a second, making Hayes' time of 10.06 seconds convert to 10.0 seconds, despite the fact that the officials with stopwatches had measured Hayes' time to be 9.9 seconds,[1] and the average difference between manual and automatic times was typically 0.15 to 0.20 seconds. This unique method of determining the official time therefore denied Hayes the record of being the first to officially record 9.9 seconds for the 100 meters. The first official times of 9.9 seconds were recorded at the "Night of Speed" in 1968.

The 100 m final. Left-right: Tom Robinson, Wiesław Maniak, Harry Jerome, Gaoussou Koné, Enrique Figuerola, Heinz Schumann, Bob Hayes

Preliminaries

First round

The top three runners in each of the 10 heats advanced. The Official Report describes the weather for these heats as 'rainy'.

First round, heat 1

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Iijima Hideo Japan 10.3 seconds
2 Bernard Laidebeur France 10.5 seconds
3 Edvin Ozolin Soviet Union 10.5 seconds
4 Kenneth Lawrence Powell India 10.7 seconds
5 Zbigniew Syka Poland 10.7 seconds
6 Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa Madagascar 10.8 seconds
7 Sara Camara Mali 11.3 seconds

First round, heat 2

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Trenton Jackson United States 10.5 seconds
2 Peter Radford Great Britain 10.6 seconds
3 B. El Maachi Bouchaib Morocco 10.6 seconds
4 Csaba Csutorás Hungary 10.7 seconds
5 Johan du Preez Rhodesia 10.7 seconds
6 Chung Ki Sun South Korea 11.0 seconds
7 Arnulfo Valles Philippines 11.1 seconds

Wind, -2.51 m/s

First round, heat 3

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Gaoussou Koné Ivory Coast 10.5 seconds
2 Mel Pender United States 10.5 seconds
3 Michael Ahey Ghana 10.6 seconds
4 Franciscus Luitjes Netherlands 10.6 seconds
5 Wilton Jackson Trinidad and Tobago 10.6 seconds
6 Lynn Davies Great Britain 10.7 seconds
7 Gerardo di Tolla Peru 10.9 seconds
8 Lee Ar Tu Taiwan 11.2 seconds

First round, heat 4

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Marian Dudziak Poland 10.6 seconds
2 Stanley Fabian Allotey Ghana 10.6 seconds
3 John Owiti Kenya 10.6 seconds
4 Carlos Lorenzo Mañueco Mexico 10.7 seconds
5 George Reginald Collie Bahamas 10.9 seconds
6 Kamata Masaru Japan 10.9 seconds
7 Chinh Ho Than Vietnam 11.9 seconds
— Nikolay Politiko Soviet Union

First round, heat 5

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Harry Jerome Canada 10.5 seconds
2 Claude Piquemal France 10.5 seconds
3 Lloyd Murad Venezuela 10.8 seconds
4 James Odongo Oduka Uganda 10.9 seconds
5 Gusman Kosanov Soviet Union 10.9 seconds
6 Abdoulaye Ndiaye Senegal 11.0 seconds
7 Levy Psawkin Israel 11.1 seconds

First round, heat 6

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Heinz Schumann Germany 10.5 seconds
2 Dennis O. Johnson Jamaica 10.6 seconds
3 William Joseph Earle Australia 10.7 seconds
4 Serafino Antao Kenya 10.7 seconds
5 Huba Rozsnyai Hungary 10.8 seconds
6 Alf Meakin Great Britain 10.8 seconds
7 David Njitock Cameroon 11.1 seconds
— Akbar Babakhanlou Iran Did not start

First round, heat 7

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Wiesław Maniak Poland 10.5 seconds
2 Arquímedes Herrera Venezuela 10.5 seconds
3 Mani Jegathesan Malaysia 10.6 seconds
4 Jose Fernandes da Rocha Portugal 11.0 seconds
5 Bassirou Doumya Senegal 11.0 seconds
6 Francisco J. Gutiérrez Hernández Colombia 11.0 seconds
7 Iftikhar Shah Pakistan 11.4 seconds

First round, heat 8

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Bob Hayes United States 10.4 seconds
2 Tom Robinson Bahamas 10.5 seconds
3 Bob Lay Australia 10.5 seconds
4 Ito Jiani Italy 10.6 seconds
5 Rogelio Onofre Philippines 10.7 seconds
6 Khudher Zalada Iraq 11.1 seconds
— David Ejoke Nigeria Did not start

First round, heat 9

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Fritz Obersiebrasse Germany 10.4 seconds
2 Ivan Moreno Chile 10.5 seconds
3 Pablo McNeil Jamaica 10.5 seconds
4 László Mihályfi Hungary 10.6 seconds
5 Gary Holdsworth Australia 10.6 seconds
6 Max Barandun Switzerland 10.7 seconds
7 Jeffery Itzen Smith Northern Rhodesia 10.8 seconds
8 Wesley Johnson Liberia Did not finish

First round, heat 10

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Enrique Figuerola Cuba 10.5 seconds
2 Lynsworth Headley Jamaica 10.5 seconds
3 Roger Bambuck France 10.6 seconds
4 Manfred Knickenberg Germany 10.7 seconds
5 Leon Yombe Congo 10.8 seconds
6 Alberto Torres Mota Dominican Republic 10.9 seconds
7 Suthi Manyakass Thailand 10.9 seconds
8 Rogelio Rivas Spain 11.1 seconds

Second round

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

Second round, heat 1

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Harry Jerome Canada 10.3 seconds
2 Trenton Jackson United States 10.4 seconds
3 Fritz Obersiebrasse Germany 10.4 seconds
4 Gaoussou Koné Ivory Coast 10.4 seconds
5 Dennis O. Johnson Jamaica 10.5 seconds
6 Marian Dudziak Poland 10.5 seconds
7 Bernard Laidebeur France 10.5 seconds
8 William Joseph Earle Australia 10.9 seconds

Wind, +1.90 m/s

Second round, heat 2

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Enrique Figuerola Cuba 10.3 seconds
2 Wiesław Maniak Poland 10.3 seconds
3 Bob Lay Australia 10.4 seconds
4 Claude Piquemal France 10.4 seconds
5 Edvin Ozolin Soviet Union 10.4 seconds
6 B. El Maachi Bouchaib Morocco 10.5 seconds
7 John Owiti Kenya 10.6 seconds

Second round, heat 3

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Tom Robinson Bahamas 10.3 seconds
2 Mel Pender United States 10.4 seconds
3 Iijima Hideo Japan 10.5 seconds
4 Pablo McNeil Jamaica 10.5 seconds
5 Mani Jegathesan Malaysia 10.6seconds
6 Ivan Moreno Chile 10.6 seconds
7 Stanley Fabian Allotey Ghana 10.7 seconds
8 Lloyd Murad Venezuela 10.7 seconds

Second round, heat 4

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Bob Hayes United States 10.3 seconds
2 Arquimedes Herrera Venezuela 10.4 seconds
3 Lynsworth Headley Jamaica 10.4 seconds
4 Heinz Schumann Germany 10.5 seconds
5 Peter Radford Great Britain 10.5 seconds
6 Roger Bambuck France 10.5 seconds
7 Michael Ahey Ghana 10.6 seconds

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Excessive wind from behind the runners made this semifinal ineligible for world record breaking.

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Bob Hayes United States 9.9 seconds
2 Wiesław Maniak Poland 10.1 seconds
3 Tom Robinson Bahamas 10.2 seconds
4 Heinz Schumann Germany 10.3 seconds
5 Robert William Lay Australia 10.3 seconds
6 Pablo McNeil Jamaica 10.3 seconds
7 Arquimedes Herrera Venezuela 10.4 seconds
8 Trenton Jackson United States 10.6 seconds

Wind, +5.28 m/s

Semifinal 2

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Harry Jerome Canada 10.3 seconds
2 Gaoussou Koné Ivory Coast 10.4 seconds
3 Enrique Figuerola Cuba 10.4 seconds
4 Mel Pender United States 10.4 seconds
5 Claude Piquemal France 10.5 seconds
6 Lynsworth Headley Jamaica 10.5 seconds
7 Iijima Hideo Japan 10.6 seconds
8 Fritz Obersiebrasse Germany 10.6 seconds

References

  1. ↑ revisionist history: men's 100 WR. trackandfieldnews.com. 1 November 2013
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