European Athletics Championships 2010/100 m men

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 27th (preliminary) July 28th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Christophe Lemaître ( FRA )   Mark Lewis-Francis ( GBR )   Martial Mbandjock ( FRA )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The men's 100-meter run at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on July 27 and 28, 2010 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

The French sprinters won two medals in this competition: gold and bronze. Christophe Lemaître became European champion . He won ahead of the British Mark Lewis-Francis . Bronze went to Martial Mbandjock .

In the 100-meter run , the Irishman Jason Smyth, a disabled athlete, took part in the European Athletics Championships for the first time. Smyth has Stargardt's disease and is almost blind. With a time of 10.43 s he reached the semifinals, where he was eliminated in fourth place with 10.46 s.

Existing records

World record	9.58 s	Usain Bolt	WM Berlin , Germany	August 16, 2009
European record	9.86 s	Francis Obikwelu	Athens , Greece	August 22, 2004
Championship record	9.99 s		EM Gothenburg , Sweden	August 8, 2006

Almost all races were accompanied by a clear headwind. So there was no chance of attacking the existing EM record. The previous record thus continued to exist.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

July 27, 2010, 7:15 p.m.

Wind: −1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.21
2	Ronald Pognon	France	10.46
3	Robert Kubaczyk	Poland	10.51
4th	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia	10.52
5	Jesper Simonsen	Denmark	10.62
6th	Tom Kling-Baptiste	Sweden	10.64
7th	Jan Veleba	Czech Republic	10.68

Forward 2

July 27, 2010, 7:23 pm

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martial Mbandjock	France	10.26
2	Emanuele Di Gregorio	Italy	10.31
3	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.36
4th	Alexander Kosenkow	Germany	10.44
5	Dmitriy Glushchenko	Israel	10.44
6th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.45
7th	Panayiotis Ioannou	Cyprus	10.61

Forward 3

July 27, 2010, 7:31 pm

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.27
2	Tobias Unger	Germany	10.35
3	Simone Collio	Italy	10.43
4th	Hannu Hämäläinen	Finland	10.49
5	Paweł stamp	Poland	10.58
6th	Mario Bonello	Malta	11.09
7th	Nedim Čović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.01
DSQ	Dominic Carroll	Ireland

Forward 4

Fifth place in the fourth heat was not enough for Joni Rautanen for the semifinals

July 27, 2010, 7:39 pm

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.31
2	Ryan Moseley	Austria	10.38
3	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.40
4th	Christian Blum	Germany	10.57
5	Joni Rautanen	Finland	10.63
6th	Gregor Kokalovič	Slovenia	10.68
7th	Arman Andreasyan	Armenia	11.01

Forward 5

Mikhail Idrisow was eliminated as sixth of his preliminary run

July 27, 2010, 7:47 pm

Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaître	France	10.19
2	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.23
3	Fabio Cerutti	Italy	10.38
4th	Jason Smyth	Ireland	10.43
5	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.53
6th	Mikhail Idrisov	Russia	10.62
7th	İzzet Safer	Turkey	10.68

Semifinals

From the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

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  Crossing the finish line of the first semi-final race

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  Tobias Unger finished seventh in his semi-finals and was eliminated

July 28, 2010, 7:50 p.m.

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaître	France	10.06
2	Emanuele Di Gregorio	Italy	10.17
3	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.21
4th	Jason Smyth	Ireland	10.46
5	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia	10.47
6th	Hannu Hämäläinen	Finland	10.47
7th	Tobias Unger	Germany	10.52
8th	Paweł stamp	Poland	10.53

Run 2

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  Second semifinal race, shortly after crossing the finish line

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  As fifth of his semi-final run, Alexander Kosenkow did not reach the final

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  Ronald Pognon was sixth in his race in the semifinals - he still had major successes ahead of him

July 28, 2010, 7:58 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.10
2	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.16
3	Simone Collio	Italy	10.23
4th	Ryan Moseley	Austria	10.27
5	Alexander Kosenkow	Germany	10.38
6th	Ronald Pognon	France	10.43
7th	Dmitriy Glushchenko	Israel	10.50
8th	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.65

Run 3

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  James Dasaolu - eliminated third in his semi-finals

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  Fabio Cerutti - fourth place in the third semifinals and eliminatedfina.jpg

July 28, 2010, 8:06 pm

Wind: −1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Martial Mbandjock	France	10.19
2	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.25
3	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.31
4th	Fabio Cerutti	Italy	10.33
5	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.51
6th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.51
7th	Robert Kubaczyk	Poland	10.55
8th	Christian Blum	Germany	10.69

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  Matic Osovnikar - fifth in the third semifinals and therefore not in the final

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  Ángel David Rodríguez - eliminated in sixth place in the third semifinals

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  Christian Blum - eighth in the third semifinals and no longer there

final

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  100 meter final: before the start

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  Crossing the finish line of the 100 meter race

July 28, 2010, 9:45 p.m.

Wind: −1.0 m / s

Christophe Lemaitre, who in 2010 became the first white sprinter to run the 100-meter run under ten seconds, won the race ahead of the British Mark Lewis-Francis. In third place, Martial Mbandjock won a second medal for France in this race. Defending champion Francis Obikwelu from Portugal came in fourth in the photo finish with the simultaneous Lewis-Francis and Mbandjock.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaître	France	10.11
2	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.18
3	Martial Mbandjock	France	10.18
4th	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.18
5	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.18
6th	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.31
7th	Emanuele Di Gregorio	Italy	10.34
DNF	Simone Collio	Italy

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  European champion Christophe Lemaître

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  Vice European Champion Mark Lewis-Francis

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  Bronze medalist Martial Mbandjock

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  The two-time 100-meter European champion and Olympic runner-up in 2004 was fourth this time without medals

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  After previous successes and a two-year doping ban, Dwain Chambers returned and reached fifth place

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  Jaysuma Saidy Ndure came in sixth place

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  Emanuele Di Gregorio ( right , seventh place) and Simone Collio (race not finished)

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 9, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 2010 Barcelona on todor66.com, accessed December 9, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed December 9, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​p. 500 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on December 9, 2019
• 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​Spain from ifosta.de, accessed on December 9, 2019

Video

• Christophe LeMaitre Wins European Mens 100m in European Athletics Championships 2010 on youtube.com (English), accessed on December 9, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Tyson Gay: "Jason Smyth is technically better than me" on t-online.de/sport, August 18, 2011, accessed on January 7, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed December 9, 2019
3. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 7 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 9, 2019
4. ↑ Chambers took doping cocktail with 300 drugs on welt.de March 3, 2009, accessed December 9, 2019