World Athletics Championships 1991/100 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	72 athletes from 56 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary / quarter finals) August 25th (semifinals / final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Leroy Burrell ( USA )   Dennis Mitchell ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 100-meter race at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 24 and 25, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The US sprinters recorded a triple success in this competition. With Carl Lewis , one of the most successful athletes in sports history became world champion for the third time in a row. With his winning time he set a new world record at the same time. Lewis also won silver in the long jump and, like the other two medal winners in this competition, gold with the USA's sprint relay. Second place went to the previous world record holder Leroy Burrell . Bronze went to Dennis Mitchell .

Records

Existing records

World record	9.90 s	Leroy Burrell	New York City , USA	June 14, 1991
World championship record	9.93 s	Carl Lewis	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987

Record improvement

The US world champion Carl Lewis equalized and improved his own world championship record:

• 9.93 s - equalization of the record in the first semifinals on August 25th
• 9.86 s - Improvement of the record by seven hundredths of a second in the final on August 25th

With his 9.86 s, Lewis set a new world record at the same time.

There were also other records in this very close race.

• 2 continental records:
  • 9.92 s (European record ) - Linford Christie ( Great Britain ) in fourth place
  • 9.95 s (African record ) - Frank Fredericks ( Namibia ) in fifth place
• 1 national record:
  • 9.96s - Raymond Stewart ( Jamaica ) in sixth place

Preliminary round

August 24, 1991, 9:00 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in ten runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.27
2	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.31
3	Menelik Lawson	Togo	10.38
4th	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.42
5	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	10.51
6th	Thabani Gonye	Zimbabwe	10.92
7th	Botlhoko Shebe	Lesotho	10.96
8th	Ahmed Shageef	Maldives	11.18

Forward 2

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.21
2	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.36
3	Jacek Marlicki	Poland	10.49
4th	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	10.51
5	Sun-Kuk Jin	South Korea	10.67
6th	Visut Watanasin	Thailand	10.68
7th	Mark Sherwin	Cook Islands	11.35
DNS	Karim Abdul	Afghanistan

Forward 3

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.27
2	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.38
3	Salaam Gariba	Ghana	10.38
4th	Joel Lamela	Cuba	10.53
5	Kennedy Ondiek	Kenya	10.57
6th	Joel Otim	Uganda	11.06
DNS	Mohamed Abderrehin	Libya

Forward 4

Steffen Bringmann missed the quarter-finals by one place, missing five hundredths of a second

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leroy Burrell	United States	10.17
2	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.20
3	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	10.42
4th	Steffen Bringmann	Germany	10.47
5	Jason Livingston	Great Britain	10.57
6th	Florencio Aguilar	Panama	10.85
7th	Dudley the Dulk	Netherlands Antilles	11.10

Forward 5

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.25
2	Max Morinière	France	10.28
3	Oleg Kramarenko	Soviet Union	10.36
4th	Attila Kovács	Hungary	10.39
5	Juan Jesús Trapero	Spain	10.44
6th	Eduardo Nava	Mexico	10.56
7th	Edmund Estaphane	St. Lucia	10.62
8th	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	11.16

Forward 6

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.17
2	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	10.24
3	Tatsuo Sugimoto	Japan	10.58
4th	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	10.63
5	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	Bahrain	10.68
6th	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.69
7th	Jerry Jeremiah	Vanuatu	10.82
8th	Fred Rocio	Guam	12.27

Forward 7

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.39
2	Satoru Inoue	Japan	10.47
3	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	10.60
4th	Eric Haynes	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.82
5	Franck Olivier Zio	Burkina Faso	10.93
6th	Erwin Heru	Indonesia	11.14
7th	Tryson Duburiya	Nauru	12.04
DNS	Joseph Gikonyo	Kenya

Forward 8

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.28
2	Andreas Berger	Austria	10.40
3	Carlos Moreno	Chile	10.44
4th	Horace Dove-Edwin	Sierra Leone	10.48
5	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	10.59
6th	Fortune Ogouchi	Benin	10.92
7th	Christian Mandengue	Cameroon	10.98
8th	Goolam Ambia	Bangladesh	11.09

Forward 9

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	10.12
2	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.43
3	Tetsuya Yamashita	Japan	10.55
4th	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	10.58
5	Rodney Cox	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.02
6th	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	11.09
DNS	Cengiz Kavakliolu	Turkey

Forward 10

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.20
2	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	10.25
3	Vitaly Sawin	Soviet Union	10.36
4th	Fernando Botasso	Brazil	10.44
5	Junior Cornette	Guyana	10.63
6th	Hsieh Tzong-Tze	Chinese Taipei	10.79
7th	John Hou	Papua New Guinea	11.04
DNS	Adam Hassam Sakkak	Sudan

Quarter finals

August 24, 1991, 5:35 p.m.

From the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Quarter-finals 1

Wind: +4.6 m / s - tail wind too strong for performance to be included in leaderboards

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.02
2	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.05
3	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.23
4th	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.24
5	Max Morinière	France	10.24
6th	Vitaly Sawin	Soviet Union	10.26
7th	Jacek Marlicki	Poland	10.38
8th	Tetsuya Yamashita	Japan	10.56

Quarter-finals 2

Wind: +4.3 m / s - tail wind too strong for performance to be included in leaderboards

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	09.80
2	Linford Christie	Great Britain	09.90
3	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.01
4th	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.18
5	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.19
6th	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	10.32
7th	Carlos Moreno	Chile	10.40
8th	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.46

Quarter-finals 3

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leroy Burrell	United States	10.11
2	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.23
3	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.30
4th	Salaam Gariba	Ghana	10.43
5	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.45
6th	Menelik Lawson	Togo	10.60
7th	Tatsuo Sugimoto	Japan	10.61
DNS	Andreas Berger	Austria

Quarter-finals 4

Wind: +4.1 m / s - tail wind too strong for performance to be included in leaderboards

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	09.89
2	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.00
3	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	10.01
4th	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	10.08
5	Satoru Inoue	Japan	10.21
6th	Oleg Kramarenko	Soviet Union	10.23
7th	Attila Kovács	Hungary	10.23
8th	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	10.46

Semifinals

August 25, 1991, 5:00 p.m.

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	09.93 CRe
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.02
3	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.07
4th	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	10.13
5	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.17
6th	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.25
7th	Salaam Gariba	Ghana	10.37
8th	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.38

Semi-final run 2

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leroy Burrell	United States	09.94
2	Dennis Mitchell	United States	09.99
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	09.99
4th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.03
5	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.18
6th	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	10.18
7th	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.20
8th	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.33

Carl Lewis - world champion again, plus a world record

final

August 25, 1991, 7:05 p.m.

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	09.86 WR
2	Leroy Burrell	United States	09.88
3	Dennis Mitchell	United States	09.91
4th	Linford Christie	Great Britain	09.92 ER
5	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	09.95 AF
6th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	09.96 NO
7th	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	10.12
8th	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.14

• 

  Linford Christie, two-time European champion ( 1986 / 1990 ) and 1988 Olympic silver medalist, finished a hundredth of a second hit, despite European record fourth, remaining without a medal

• 

  Frank Fredericks (here in 2007) came in fifth - over 200 meters there was silver two days later

• 

  Robson Caetano da Silva reached seventh place

• 

  Eighth place for Bruny Surin
  (here in 2019)

Video

• Carl Lewis-100m.WR, Tokyo, 1991 World Championships , video posted December 17, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 16, 2020
• Men 100m Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 16, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook on the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 100 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 88f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 16, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 16, 2020