European Athletics Championships 2012/100 m men

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (preliminary) June 28th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Christophe Lemaitre ( FRA )   Jimmy Vicaut ( FRA )   Jaysuma Saidy Ndure ( NOR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 100-meter run at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 27 and 28, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

In this competition there was a French double victory. European champion was defending champion Christophe Lemaitre . Jimmy Vicaut took second place . Bronze went to the Norwegian Jaysuma Saidy Ndure .

As in 2010 , Irishman Jason Smyth , who had Stargardt's disease , was there again in the 100-meter run . In 2010 he took part in the European Athletics Championships as a disabled athlete for the first time, where he made it through to the semi-finals. Smyth is almost blind from his illness. With a time of 10.47 s he reached the semi-finals again here in Helsinki , where he was eliminated as a barrel sieve with 10.52 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

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. There were no times under ten seconds.

Preliminary round

June 27, 2012

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

Matic Osovnikar was eliminated in sixth place in his preliminary run

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jimmy Vicaut	France	10.18
2	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	10.32
3	Fabio Cerutti	Italy	10.36
4th	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.39
5	Rolf Fongué	Switzerland	10.53
6th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.60
7th	Eetu Rantala	Finland	10.73

Forward 2

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Rytis Sakalauskas	Lithuania	10.23
2	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia	10.28
3	Amaru Reto Schenkel	Switzerland	10.38
4th	Jason Smyth	Ireland	10.47
5	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal	10.49
6th	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan	10.58
DNF	İzzet Safer	Turkey

Forward 3

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaitre	France	10.14
2	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	Great Britain	10.27
3	Julian Reus	Germany	10.31
4th	Jacques Riparelli	Italy	10.42
5	Dmitriy Barskiy	Israel	10.59
6th	Catalin Campeanu	Romania	10.65
7th	Panayiotis Ioannou	Cyprus	10.67

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.26
2	Simone Collio	Italy	10.31
3	Jan Veleba	Czech Republic	10.48
4th	Richard Pulst	Estonia	10.57
5	Mikel De Sa	Andorra	11.26
DNF	Georgi Kirilov Georgiev	Bulgaria

Forward 5

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.24
2	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.26
3	Emmanuel Biron	France	10.28
4th	Stefan Tärnhuvud	Sweden	10.35
5	Rostislav Šulc	Czech Republic	10.56
6th	Rachid Chouhal	Malta	10.86

Semifinals

June 28, 2012

From each of 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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  Emmanuel Biron reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in fourth place in his race

• 

  Arnaldo Abrantes did not reach the final as sixth of his semi-final run

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  Seventh place in the first semifinals was not enough for Rolf Fongué to take part in the final

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.13
2	Rytis Sakalauskas	Lithuania	10.23
3	Simone Collio	Italy	10.30
4th	Emmanuel Biron	France	10.43
5	Stefan Tärnhuvud	Sweden	10.47
6th	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal	10.47
7th	Rolf Fongué	Switzerland	10.50
8th	Jan Veleba	Czech Republic	10.60

Run 2

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  Julian Reus finished fourth in the second semifinals and was eliminated

• 

  Amaru Reto Schenkel did not reach the final as fifth in his semi-finals

• 

  Sixth place was not enough for Fabio Cerutti to make it to the final

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaitre	France	10.14
2	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	Great Britain	10.30
3	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.38
4th	Julian Reus	Germany	10.44
5	Amaru Reto Schenkel	Switzerland	10.48
6th	Fabio Cerutti	Italy	10.50
7th	Jason Smyth	Ireland	10.52
8th	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan	10.71

Run 3

• 

  Lucas Jakubczy missed the final by two hundredths of a second

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  Jacques Riparelli - fifth in the third semifinals and eliminated

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  Mark Lewis-Francis, 2010 Vice European Champion, failed this time in the semi-finals

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jimmy Vicaut	France	10.22
2	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	10.28
3	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia	10.29
4th	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.32
5	Jacques Riparelli	Italy	10.33
6th	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.36
7th	Richard Pulst	Estonia	10.57
8th	Rostislav Šulc	Czech Republic	10.60

final

Christophe Lemaitre was able to
defend his 100 meter title

June 28, 2012, 7:45 p.m.

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaitre	France	10.09
2	Jimmy Vicaut	France	10.12
3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.17
4th	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	Great Britain	10.31
5	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	10.34
DNF	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia
	Rytis Sakalauskas	Lithuania	IAAF Rule 162.5a - Aborted start
DSQ	Simone Collio	Italy	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

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  Vice European Champion Jimmy Vicaut

• 

  Bronze medalist Jaysuma Saidy Ndure

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  Harry Aikines-Aryeetey finished fourth

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  Fifth place for Serhij Smelyk

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  Simone Collio (left) - disqualified after a false start

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 7, 2020
• Men 100m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 7, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 7, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 510 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 7, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 7, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 7, 2020

Video

• 100m Final Helsinki 2012 European Athletics Championships on youtube.com (English), accessed January 7, 2020

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 January 7, 2020
3. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 7 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 7, 2020
4. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 69 (PDF), accessed on January 7, 2020
5. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on January 7, 2020