European Athletics Championships 2018/100 m men

discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	48 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 6, 2018 (preliminary) August 7, 2018 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Zharnel Hughes ( GBR )
silver	Reece Prescod ( GBR )
bronze	Jak Ali Harvey ( TUR )

100 meter final shortly after the start

The men's 100-meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 6th and 7th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

With the new European champion Zharnel Hughes and the second Reece Prescod there was a British double victory. The Turk Jak Ali Harvey won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

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

Record improvements

The EM record was increased twice:

• Semifinals - Jimmy Vicaut : 9.97 p
• Finale - Zharnel Hughes : 9.95 p

Conducting the competition

The nine fastest sprinters on the year's best list - marked with ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the preliminary runs. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

The Belarusian Denis Dimitrov was eliminated as fourth in his run

The German Kevin Kranz did not reach the final after his fifth place in the third heat

The Pole Remigiusz Olszewski retired after sixth place in his preliminary run

Third place in his preliminary run was not enough for Frenchman Marvin René to take part in the semi-finals

From the five preliminary runs, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the five fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 6, 2018, 4:30 p.m. CEST
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	10.24
2	8th	Ján Volko	Slovakia	10.32
3	6th	Dominik Kopeć	Poland	10.37
4th	4th	Denis Dimitrov	Bulgaria	10.45
5	7th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.55
6th	1	Markus Fuchs	Austria	10.57
7th	5	Erik Hagberg	Sweden	10.69
8th	3	Ioan Andrei Melnicescu	Romania	10.88

Run 2

August 6, 2018, 4:36 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Yazaldes Nascimento	Portugal	10.33
2	6th	Julian Reus	Germany	10.37
3	8th	Ioannis Nifadopoulos	Greece	10.44
4th	1	Aitor Same Ekobo	Spain	10.52
5	7th	Jan Veleba	Czech Republic	10.52
6th	2	Przemysław Słowikowski	Poland	10.54
7th	3	Florian Clivaz	Switzerland	10.57
8th	4th	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	10.62

Run 3

August 6, 2018, 4:42 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	10.32
2	3	Christopher Garia	Netherlands	10.35
3	4th	José Lopes	Portugal	10.38
4th	8th	Zdeněk Stromšík	Czech Republic	10.39
5	6th	Kevin Kranz	Germany	10.41
6th	7th	Remigiusz Olszewski	Poland	10.44
7th	2	Šimon Bujna	Slovakia	10.53
8th	5	Petar Peew	Bulgaria	10.75

Run 4

August 6, 2018, 4:48 p.m. CEST
Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Jonathan Quarcoo	Norway	10.37
2	4th	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.41
3	6th	Marvin René	France	10.47
4th	8th	Dennis Leal	Sweden	10.51
5	5	Joris van Gool	Netherlands	10.52
6th	1	Patrick Chinedu Ike	Spain	10.54
7th	3	Dominik Záleský	Czech Republic	10.55
8th	2	Ionuț Andrei Neagoe	Romania	10.56

Run 5

August 6, 2018, 4:54 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Silvan Wicki	Switzerland	10.28
2	8th	Carlos Nascimento	Portugal	10.33
3	6th	Hensley Paulina	Netherlands	10.34
4th	7th	Federico Cattaneo	Italy	10.39
5	2	Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu	Turkey	10.40
6th	5	Oleksandr Sokolov	Ukraine	10.43
7th	3	Dániel Szabó	Hungary	10.64

Semifinals

The Pole Dominik Kopeć did not make it into the final as fifth in his semi-final run

Even third place in his semi-final race was not enough for the Portuguese Yazaldes Nascimento to reach the final

The German Julian Reus was eliminated in fifth place in his semi-final run

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The nine fastest of the year - marked with ‡, who were automatically qualified for the semi-finals, now intervened in the action.

Run 1

August 7, 2018, 7:25 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Jimmy Vicaut ‡	France	9.97 CR
2	6th	Reece Prescod ‡	Great Britain	10.10
3	6th	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	10.18 SB
4th	5	Emre Zafer Barnes ‡	Turkey	10.21
5	1	Dominik Kopeć	Poland	10.29
6th	3	Carlos Nascimento	Portugal	10.31
7th	2	Federico Cattaneo	Italy	10.39
8th	7th	Silvan Wicki	Switzerland	10.49

Run 2

August 7, 2018, 7:31 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Zharnel Hughes ‡	Great Britain	10.01
2	3	Jak Ali Harvey ‡	Turkey	10.09
3	2	Yazaldes Nascimento	Portugal	10.22 SB
4th	4th	Marcell Jacobs ‡	Italy	10.28
5	6th	Ján Volko	Slovakia	10.31
6th	8th	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	10.32
7th	7th	Zdeněk Stromšík	Czech Republic	10.37
8th	1	Hensley Paulina	Netherlands	10.38

Run 3

August 7, 2018, 7:37 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Filippo Tortu ‡	Italy	10.12
2	5	Chijindu Ujah ‡	Great Britain	10.14
3	3	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	10.22
4th	1	Christopher Garia	Netherlands	10.31
5	7th	Julian Reus	Germany	10.37
6th	2	José Lopes	Portugal	10.40
7th	8th	Jonathan Quarcoo	Norway	10.40
8th	6th	Amaury Golitin ‡	France	10.55

final

August 7, 2018, 9:50 p.m. CEST
Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

The favorites for this race were the French Jimmy Vicaut and the British Reece Prescod. Vicaut had become the best European at the last international championships at world level as Olympic 7th in 2016 and World Cup sixth in 2017 and had improved the existing European championship record by two tenths of a second in the semi-finals. But he was injured after this race and could not compete in the final. Prescod was the second best European behind Vicaut at the 2015 World Championships.

It was very close in the final. The quickest out of the blocks were the Briton Zharnel Hughes and the Turk Emre Zafer Barnes. The Turk soon fell behind, but Barnes was still just ahead even halfway through. Prescod was in second place ahead of the Italian Filippo Tortu, the Turkish Jak Ali Harvey and Chijindu Ujah, another Briton. Zharnel Hughes brought his minimal lead to the finish and became the new European champion. He improved Vicaut's EM record from the semi-finals by two tenths of a second to 9.95 s. Vice European champion was Reece Prescod, who was only a tenth of a second behind his compatriot. Jak Ali Harvey won the bronze medal ahead of Chijindu Ujah and Filippo Tortu. The 2016 Dutch European Champion Churandy Martina came in sixth here. Emre Zafer Barnes came in seventh.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	5	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	9.95 CR
	7th	Reece Prescod	Great Britain	9.96 NU23R
	3	Jak Ali Harvey	Turkey	10.01
4th	8th	Chijindu Ujah	Great Britain	10.06 SB
5	6th	Filippo Tortu	Italy	10.08
6th	2	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	10.16 SB
7th	1	Emre Zafer Barnes	Turkey	10.29
DNS	4th	Jimmy Vicaut	France	injured

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  European Champion Zharnel Hughes, Great Britain

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  Vice European Champion Reece Prescod, Great Britain - defeated by a hundredth of a second

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  Bronze medalist
  Jak Ali Harvey, Turkey

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  The British Chijindu Ujah finished fourth

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  Fifth place for the Italian Filippo Tortu

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  The Dutchman Churandy Martina came in sixth place

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  French co-favorite Jimmy Vicaut was unable to compete in the final due to an injury

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on December 29, 2018
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 29, 2018
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 29, 2018

Videos

• 9.95 seconds in the 100m final: Zharnel Hughes runs away from everyone, European Championships 2018, ZDF on youtube.com, published on August 7, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2018
• 100 m men: Hughes seizes the opportunity on daserste.de, accessed on December 29, 2018