World Athletics Championships 1995/100 m men

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	89 athletes from 62 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (preliminary / quarter finals) August 6th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Donovan Bailey ( CAN )   Bruny Surin ( CAN )   Ato Boldon ( TRI )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's 100-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5 and 6, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The Canadian sprinters celebrated a double victory in this competition. Donovan Bailey became world champion . He won ahead of Bruny Surin . The two Canadians won another gold medal on the final day as members of their 4 x 100 meter relay . Bronze went to Ato Boldon from Trinidad and Tobago .

Existing records

World record	9.85 s	Leroy Burrell	Lausanne , Switzerland	July 6, 1994
World championship record	9.86 s	Carl Lewis	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 25, 1991

The existing World Cup record was not set and not improved.

The wind conditions were not favorable in numerous races, and the sprinters often had to deal with headwinds. In the final, however, there was a tailwind support of 1.0 m / s. The Canadian world champion Donovan Bailey was the only runner to break the ten-second mark.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 5, 1995, 11:45 a.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.20
2	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.25
3	Édson Ribeiro	Brazil	10.37
4th	Yiannakis Zisimides	Cyprus	10.53
5	Vitaliy Medvedev	Kazakhstan	10.54
6th	Nigel Jones	Grenada	10.88
7th	Alberto Méndez	Dominican Republic	10.92
8th	Toluta'u Koula	Tonga	10.98

Forward 2

August 5, 1995, 11:51 a.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.18
2	Andrei Grigoryev	Russia	10.24
3	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.27
4th	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.38
5	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	10.51
6th	Franck Amégnigan	Togo	10.81
7th	Abdulaziz Mattar	Bahrain	10.93
8th	Ahmed Shageef	Maldives	11.46

Forward 3

August 5, 1995, 11:57 a.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.13
2	Maurice Greene	United States	10.26
3	Paul Henderson	Australia	10.35
4th	Oleg Kramarenko	Ukraine	10.46
5	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	10.67
6th	Azmi Ibrahim	Malaysia	10.76
7th	Tesfaye Jenbere	Ethiopia	11.20

Forward 4

August 5, 1995, 12:03 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.20
2	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	10.24
3	Jason John	Great Britain	10.25
4th	Lars Hedner	Sweden	10.43
5	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	10.43
6th	Aléxandros Terzián	Greece	10.47
7th	Matarr Njie	Gambia	11.05
8th	Odair Pericles da Costa	Sao Tome and Principe	11.19

Forward 5

August 5, 1995 at 12:09 p.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.24
2	Peter Karlsson	Sweden	10.35
3	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	10.36
4th	Jaime Barragán	Mexico	10.53
5	Jorge Aguilera	Cuba	10.58
6th	Frutos Feo	Spain	10.59
7th	Fredrick Canon	Nauru	11.51
8th	Tururangi Tarapu	Cook Islands	11.85

Forward 6

August 5, 1995, 12:15 p.m.

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.24
2	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.27
3	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	10.40
4th	Satoru Inoue	Japan	10.56
5	Aleksey Chikhachov	Ukraine	10.56
6th	Peter Pulu	Papua New Guinea	10.68
7th	Lin Wei	People's Republic of China	10.68
8th	Ahmed Al-Moamari	Oman	10.94

Forward 7

August 5, 1995, 12:21 p.m.

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.24
2	Aléxios Alexópoulos	Greece	10.35
3	Vitaly Sawin	Kazakhstan	10.49
4th	Claus Hirsbro	Denmark	10.52
5	Dmitriy Vanyaikin	Ukraine	10.62
6th	Garfield Gill	Barbados	10.90
7th	Albert Juan	Guam	11.56
8th	Darren Tuitt	Montserrat	11.67

Forward 8

August 5, 1995, 12:27 p.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.26
2	Marc Blume	Germany	10.39
3	Alexandr Porchomovsky	Russia	10.44
4th	Matias Ghansah	Sweden	10.49
5	Resat Oguz	Turkey	10.65
6th	Fabian Muyaba	Zimbabwe	10.67
7th	Patrick Mocci Raoumbé	Gabon	10.73

Forward 9

August 5, 1995, 12:33 p.m.

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Damien Marsh	Australia	10.28
2	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.30
3	Renward Wells	Bahamas	10.33
4th	Leonardo Prevost	Cuba	10.60
5	Patrick Delice	Trinidad and Tobago	10.69
6th	Kfir Golan	Israel	10.71
7th	Bimal Tarafdar	Bangladesh	10.90

Forward 10

August 5, 1995, 12:39 p.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Chen Wenzhong	People's Republic of China	10.37
2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.37
3	Shane Naylor	Australia	10.45
4th	Fernando Ramirez	Norway	10.53
5	Huang Hsin-ping	Chinese Taipei	10.66
6th	Vladislav Chernobay	Kyrgyzstan	11.00
DNS	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria

Forward 11

August 5, 1995, 12:45 p.m.

Wind: –2.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Joel Isasi	Cuba	10.44
2	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.61
3	Yoshitaka Ito	Japan	10.62
4th	Sidnei Telles De Souza	Brazil	10.63
5	Kurvin Wallace	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.82
6th	Francisco Obama Afang	Equatorial Guinea	11.82
DNF	Dennis Mitchell	United States

Forward 12

August 5, 1995, 12:51 p.m.

Wind: -1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Marsh	United States	10.27
2	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.42
3	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	10.43
4th	Chintake De Soysa	Sri Lanka	10.60
5	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	10.73
6th	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	10.81
7th	Thanh Giang Cu	Vietnam	11.18
DNS	Hassan Illiassou	Niger

Quarter finals

From the five quarter-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the fastest runner - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Quarter-finals 1

Ibrahim Meité did not reach the semi-finals with his 10.50 seconds

August 5, 1995, 3:30 p.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.18
2	Damien Marsh	Australia	10.25
3	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.29
4th	Aléxios Alexópoulos	Greece	10.29
5	Chen Wenzhong	People's Republic of China	10.32
6th	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	10.41
7th	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	10.50
8th	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	10.55

Quarter-finals 2

August 5, 1995, 3:36 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.15
2	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.24
3	Andrei Grigoryev	Russia	10.27
4th	Paul Henderson	Australia	10.34
5	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.36
6th	Lars Hedner	Sweden	10.41
7th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.42
8th	Vitaly Sawin	Kazakhstan	10.47

Quarter-finals 3

August 5, 1995, 3:42 pm

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.23
2	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.26
3	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	10.28
4th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.29
5	Jason John	Great Britain	10.39
6th	Alexandr Porchomovsky	Russia	10.52
7th	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.54
8th	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.69

Quarter-finals 4

August 5, 1995, 3:48 p.m.

Wind: +2.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Marsh	United States	10.03
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.09
3	Joel Isasi	Cuba	10.22
4th	Édson Ribeiro	Brazil	10.29
5	Peter Karlsson	Sweden	10.39
6th	Oleg Kramarenko	Ukraine	10.40
7th	Marc Blume	Germany	10.40
8th	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	10.41

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  Obadele Thompson was eliminated with his 10.40 s in the quarterfinals

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  Maurice Greene (on the photo as Olympic champion from Sydney three years later) could not qualify for the semifinals with 10.35 seconds

Quarter-finals 5

August 5, 1995, 3:54 p.m.

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.04
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.14
3	Renward Wells	Bahamas	10.18
4th	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.23
5	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.30
6th	Maurice Greene	United States	10.35
7th	Yoshitaka Ito	Japan	10.48
8th	Shane Naylor	Australia	10.49

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

Renward Wells (here as a politician in 2019) was eliminated in sixth place in his semi-final race

August 6, 1995, 4:05 pm

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.03
2	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.10
3	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.10
4th	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.12
5	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.20
6th	Renward Wells	Bahamas	10.27
7th	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.30
8th	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	10.45

Semi-final run 2

August 6, 1995, 4:11 pm

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.04
2	Michael Marsh	United States	10.08
3	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.16
4th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.17
5	Damien Marsh	Australia	10.20
6th	Joel Isasi	Cuba	10.22
7th	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.28
8th	Andrei Grigoryev	Russia	10.30

World champion Donovan Bailey - he won another gold medal with his sprint relay on the final day

final

August 6, 1995, 6:55 pm

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Donovan Bailey	Canada	09.97
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.03
3	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.03
4th	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.07
5	Michael Marsh	United States	10.10
6th	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.12
7th	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.20
8th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.29

• 

  Vice World Champion Bruny Surin - for him there was also gold on the final day with the Canadian sprint relay

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  Bronze medalist Ato Boldon (on the photo as Olympic runner-up in 2000 with Maurice Greene)

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  Frank Fredericks, two years earlier world champion over 200 meters , finished fourth - five days later he won silver over 200 meters

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  Defending champion Linford Christie reached sixth place this time

Video

• Men's 100m World Champs Gothenburg 1995 on youtube.com, accessed May 23, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Men 100m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 100 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 89f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 23, 2020