European Athletics Championships 2014/100 m men

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary) August 13th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist James Dasaolu ( GBR )   Christophe Lemaitre ( FRA )   Harry Aikines-Aryeetey ( GBR )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The 100-meter race of the men at the 2014 European Athletics Championships was on 12 and 13 August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium of Zurich held.

In this competition, the British sprinters recorded two medals, gold and bronze. European champion was James Dasaolu . He won (before the two-time European Champion 2010 / 2012 ) Christophe Lemaitre of France, two days later, also 200 meters was Vice European champion. Bronze went to Harry Aikines-Aryeetey .

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. The ten-second mark was not undercut in any of the nine races.

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

August 12, 2014, 6:28 pm

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaitre	France	10.16
2	Mikhail Idrisov	Russia	10.32
3	Julian Reus	Germany	10.32
4th	Eetu Rantala	Finland	10.36
5	Vitaliy Korzh	Ukraine	10.38
6th	Rytis Sakalauskas	Lithuania	10.40
7th	Efthímios Steryioúlis	Greece	10.46

Forward 2

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  Odain Rose (middle, in yellow a year earlier) was eliminated as fifth in his run

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  Jorén Tromp had no chance with a time of more than eleven seconds

August 12, 2014, 6:35 p.m.

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.18
2	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.23
3	Cătălin Cîmpeanu	Romania	10.34
4th	Fabio Cerutti	Italy	10.40
5	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia	10.41
6th	Odain Rose	Sweden	10.53
7th	Jorén Tromp	Netherlands	11.28
8th	Thomas Bollati	Monaco	11.94

As seventh of the third heat, Diogo Antunes did not reach the semifinals

Forward 3

August 12, 2014, 6:42 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.22
2	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	10.31
3	Sven Knipphals	Germany	10.37
4th	Denis Dimitrov	Bulgaria	10.41
5	Tom Kling-Baptiste	Sweden	10.50
6th	Eduard Viles	Spain	10.57
7th	Diogo Antunes	Portugal	10.61

Forward 4

Ramil Guliyev, particularly successful over 200 meters in the following years , was disqualified after a false start

August 12, 2014, 6:49 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jimmy Vicaut	France	10.06
2	Pascal Mancini	Switzerland	10.43
3	Giovanni Codrington	Netherlands	10.43
4th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.44
5	Robert Kubaczyk	Poland	10.45
6th	Patrik Andersson	Sweden	10.61
DSQ	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Forward 5

Reto Schenkel did not reach the next round as sixth of his heat

August 12, 2014, 6:56 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	Great Britain	10.19
2	Yazaldes Nascimento	Portugal	10.27
3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.30
4th	Delmas Obou	Italy	10.32
5	Jan Veleba	Czech Republic	10.41
6th	Amaru Reto Schenkel	Switzerland	10.44
7th	Kevin Moore	Malta	10.49 NO
8th	Petar Kremensky	Bulgaria	10.87

Semifinals

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

August 13, 2014, 7:46 pm

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	Great Britain	10.21
2	Cătălin Cîmpeanu	Romania	10.29
3	Yazaldes Nascimento	Portugal	10.30
4th	Julian Reus	Germany	10.35
5	Fabio Cerutti	Italy	10.36
6th	Jan Veleba	Czech Republic	10.38
7th	Denis Dimitrov	Bulgaria	10.98
DNS	Jimmy Vicaut	France

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  Julian Reus missed the finals by five hundredths of a second

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  Fabio Cerutti - fifth in the first semi-final and eliminated

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  His seventh place in the first heat was not enough for Denis Dimitrov to take part in the final

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  Jimmy Vicaut did not participate in his semifinal race

Run 2

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  Churandy Martina, 2012 200 meter European champion and fourth here on the longer sprint course , failed in the semifinals as fourth in his race

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  Sven Knipphals was fifth in his semi-final run, which was not enough for the final

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  For Ángel David Rodríguez, the competition was over after finishing eighth in the second semifinals

August 13, 2014, 7:54 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.04
2	Christophe Lemaitre	France	10.10
3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.23
4th	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	10.34
5	Sven Knipphals	Germany	10.37
6th	Ronalds Arājs	Latvia	10.52
7th	Eetu Rantala	Finland	10.54
8th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.76

Run 3

August 13, 2014, 8:02 p.m.

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.23
2	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.25
3	Pascal Mancini	Switzerland	10.38
4th	Vitaliy Korzh	Ukraine	10.39
5	Giovanni Codrington	Netherlands	10.39
6th	Delmas Obou	Italy	10.41
7th	Mikhail Idrisov	Russia	10.41
8th	Rytis Sakalauskas	Lithuania	10.44

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  Despite a third place in the third semifinals, Pascal Mancini did not reach the finals

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  Giovanni Codrington - fifth in the third semifinals and eliminated

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  Delmas Obou finished sixth in his semi-final run, which was not enough to make it into the final

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  Mikhail Idrisov - seventh in the last semi-final, not qualified for the final

final

European champion James Dasaolu

August 14, 2014, 9:50 pm

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.06
2	Christophe Lemaitre	France	10.13
3	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey	Great Britain	10.22
4th	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.24
5	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.25
6th	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.35
7th	Cătălin Cîmpeanu	Romania	10.44
8th	Yazaldes Nascimento	Portugal	10.46

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  For the two-time European champion Christophe Lemaitre of the last few years there was silver this time as well as two days later over 200 meters

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  Bronze medalist
  Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

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  Dwain Chambers, who had been banned from doping a few years ago, was two hundredths of a second away from bronze

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  Lucas Jakubczyk finished fifth in this close race

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  Jaysuma Saidy Ndure came in sixth place

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  Yazaldes Nascimento finished eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 31, 2020
• Men 100m European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on January 31, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 31, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 31, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 31, 2020

Video

• Men's 100m final Zurich 2014 (European Athletics Championships) on youtube.com, accessed on January 31, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed January 7, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 7 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 7, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on January 31, 2020
4. ↑ Chambers took doping cocktail with 300 drugs on welt.de March 3, 2009, accessed on January 31, 2020