World Athletics Championships 1999/100 m men

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	73 athletes from 54 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 22 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Maurice Greene ( USA )   Bruny Surin ( CAN )   Dwain Chambers ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's 100-meter run at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 22, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The US defending champion Maurice Greene won his first of three titles at these world championships . He won ahead of the Canadian World Cup -second of 1995 Bruny Surin , who with his sprint relays have two golds (1995/ 1997 ) and one bronze ( 1993 won) at world championships. Bronze went to the British Vice European Champion from 1998 Dwain Chambers .

Records

Existing records

World record	9.79 s	Maurice Greene	Athens , Greece	June 16, 1999
World championship record	9.86 s	Carl Lewis	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 25, 1991
		Maurice Greene	1997 World Cup in Athens , Greece	August 3, 1997

Record improvement

9.80 s improved in light tailwind of 0.2 m / s, the American world champion Maurice Greene to mitgehaltenen by himself WM -record in the final on August 22 by two hundredths of a second.

In addition, the following seven national records have been set or evened out:

• Kareem Streete-Thompson ( Cayman Islands )
  • 10.24 s (7th forerun, August 21)
  • 10.14 s (3rd quarter-finals, August 21)
  • 10.14 s (1st semifinals, August 22, record equalized)
• Pascal Dangbo ( Benin ) - 10.64 s (9th preliminary, 21st August)
• Amarildo Almeida ( Guinea-Bissau ) - 10.80 s (9th preliminary, August 21st)
• Alexandr Porchomowski ( Israel ) - 10.80 s (3rd quarter-finals, August 21)
• Bruny Surin ( Canada ) - 9.84s (final, August 22)

doping

In this competition there were two doped athletes, both sprinters from Nigeria .

• Innocent Asonze , eliminated in the run-up - In June 1999 he missed a doping test. As a result, his results from these world championships were revoked. Also disqualified was the 4 × 100 m of his country, in which Asonze had run. The bronze medal initially won there had to be given back.
• Davidson Ezinwa , eliminated in the semifinals - His sample of a doping test after the semifinals was positive, the protein hormone HCG was found. Thereupon he was excluded from further participation in these world championships - his use as a member of the subsequently disqualified 4 x 100 meter relay was intended.

The following athletes suffered:

• Chris Donaldson , New Zealand - He would have qualified for the quarter-finals as third in his preliminary run based on his placement.
• Reanchai Seerhawong , Thailand - he would have qualified for the quarterfinals with his 10.45 seconds over his time.
• Mathew Quinn , New Zealand - he would have qualified for the semi-finals by finishing third in his quarter-finals.

Preliminary round

August 5, 1999, 5:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in ten 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 21, 1999, 11:30 a.m.

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maurice Greene	United States	10.30
2	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.38
3	Vitaliy Medvedev	Kazakhstan	10.39
4th	Bradley McCuaig	Canada	10.42
5	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	10.51
6th	Pascual Charo Esono	Equatorial Guinea	11.32
7th	Philam Garcia	Guam	12.82

Forward 2

Fifth of its forward travel Erik Wijmeersch difference (left)  from

August 21, 1999, 11:36 a.m.

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.27
2	Roland Németh	Hungary	10.28
3	Hristóforos Hoídis	Greece	10.30
4th	Martin Lachkovics	Austria	10.47
5	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.56
6th	Joel Mascoll	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	10.63
7th	Alpha Kamara	Sierra Leone	10.80
8th	Matarr Njie	Gambia	11.09

Forward 3

August 21, 1999, 11:42 am

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.22
2	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	10.23
3	Freddy Mayola	Cuba	10.25
4th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.35
5	Édson Ribeiro	Brazil	10.47
6th	Toluta'u Koula	Tonga	11.11
7th	Dinh Minh Nguyen	Vietnam	11.20
DNS	Moumi Sebergue	Chad

Forward 4

August 21, 1999, 11:48 a.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tim Montgomery	United States	10.37
2	Georgios Theodoridis	Greece	10.32
3	André da Silva	Brazil	10.41
4th	Claude Toukene	Cameroon	10.44
5	Gabriel Simón	Argentina	10.49
6th	Watson Nyambek	Malaysia	10.54
7th	Roman Cress	Marshall Islands	10.70
DSQ	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	IAAF Rule 142.4 - reporting error

Forward 5

August 21, 1999, 11:54 a.m.

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.18
2	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.37
3	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	10.47 actually qualified for the quarter-finals
4th	Tetsuya Nakamura	Japan	10.57
5	Timothy Brooks	Anguilla	11.08
6th	Detrickson Anson	Micronesia	11.68
DOP	Innocent Asonze	Nigeria	admitted to the quarter-finals

Forward 6

Kim Collins missed the quarter-finals by one place - four years later he became  world champion

August 21, 1999, 12:00 p.m.

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.34
2	Kôji Itô	Japan	10.38
3	Alexandr Porchomovsky	Israel	10.42
4th	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.50
5	Urban Acman	Slovenia	10.56
6th	Pedro Pablo Nolet	Spain	10.70
7th	Mohammad Abdul Baqi	Jordan	11.42
DNS	Joebert Delicano	Philippines

Forward 7

August 21, 1999, 12:00 p.m.

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brian Lewis	United States	10.23
2	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.24 NO
2	Tommy Kafri	Israel	10.38
4th	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.42
5	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	10.56
6th	Mohamed Ould Brahim	Mauritania	11.17
7th	Imad Ahmed	Iraq	11.26
DOP	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	admitted to the quarter-finals

Forward 8

Carlos Gats - his fifth place in the eighth heat was not enough to advance

August 21, 1999, 12:12 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tim Harden	United States	10.18
2	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.20
3	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.22
4th	Marcin Nowak	Poland	10.23
5	Carlos Gats	Argentina	10.55
6th	Chintake De Soysa	Sri Lanka	10.70
7th	Robertson Temaki	Nauru	12.14

Forward 9

August 21, 1999, 12:18 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Matthew Shirvington	Australia	10.24
2	Nathanaël wit	Netherlands Antilles	10.28
3	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.29
4th	Patrick Jarrett	Jamaica	10.34
5	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	10.64 NO
6th	Amarildo Almeida	Guinea-Bissau	10.80 NO
7th	Misili Manu	Samoa	10.91
DNS	Abjulla Kafi	Bangladesh

Forward 10

August 21, 1999, 12:24 p.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.26
2	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	10.28
3	Mathew Quinn	South Africa	10.28
4th	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.30
5	Vicente de Lima	Brazil	10.38
6th	Stéphane Buckland	Mauritius	10.43
7th	Reanchai Seerhawong	Thailand	10.45 actually qualified for the quarter-finals
DNS	Levard Missick	Turks and Caicos Islands

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

August 21, 1999, 7:36 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.18
2	Brian Lewis	United States	10.23
3	Mathew Quinn	South Africa	10.24 actually qualified for the semi-finals
4th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.26
5	Vitaliy Medvedev	Kazakhstan	10.26
6th	Georgios Theodoridis	Greece	10.30
7th	Bradley McCuaig	Canada	10.61
DOP	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	admitted to the semifinals

Quarter-finals 2

August 21, 1999, 7:36 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.04
2	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.10
3	Matthew Shirvington	Australia	10.16
4th	Mathew Quinn	South Africa	10.16
5	Hristóforos Hoídis	Greece	10.21
6th	Nathanaël wit	Netherlands Antilles	10.29
7th	Vicente de Lima	Brazil	10.36
8th	Tommy Kafri	Israel	10.36

Seventh place in the third quarter-finals was not enough for Stéphane Buckland to make it to the semi-finals

Quarter-finals 3

August 21, 1999, 7:42 pm

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.08
2	Tim Harden	United States	10.12
3	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.14 NO
4th	Alexandr Porchomovsky	Israel	10.20 NO
5	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.23
6th	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	10.29
7th	Stéphane Buckland	Mauritius	10.39
DOP	Innocent Asonze	Nigeria

Ibrahim Meité finished seventh in his quarter-final race and was eliminated

Quarter-finals 4

August 21, 1999, 7:48 p.m.

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.09
2	Tim Montgomery	United States	10.12
3	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.12
4th	Freddy Mayola	Cuba	10.15
5	Patrick Jarrett	Jamaica	10.22
6th	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.25
7th	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	10.34
8th	André da Silva	Brazil	10.37

Quarter-finals 5

August 21, 1999, 7:54 p.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maurice Greene	United States	09.91
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	09.95
3	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.22
4th	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.22
5	Carlos Calado	Portugal	10.24
6th	Marcin Nowak	Poland	10.29
7th	Kôji Itô	Japan	10.40
8th	Claude Toukene	Cameroon	10.48

Semifinals

• 

  Darren Campbell missed the final by one place

• 

  Matthew Shirvington (Photo: 2013) was disqualified under the false start rule

The multiple medalist Frank Fredericks did not make it to the semi-finals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 22, 1999, 7:30 p.m.

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maurice Greene	United States	09.96
2	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.09
3	Tim Montgomery	United States	10.14
4th	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.14 NRe
5	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.15
DSQ	Matthew Shirvington	Australia	IAAF Rule 162.8 - false start
DNS	Frank Fredericks	Namibia
	Freddy Mayola	Cuba

Semi-final run 2

August 22, 1999, 7:37 pm

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruny Surin	Canada	09.96
2	Tim Harden	United States	10.05
3	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.07
4th	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.10
5	Brian Lewis	United States	10.13
6th	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.16
7th	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.47
DOP	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria

final

Maurice Greene defended his title - two more victories over 200 meters and 4 × 100 m were added in the next few days

August 22, 1999, 9:15 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Maurice Greene	United States	09.80 CR
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	09.84 NO
3	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	09.97
4th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.00
5	Tim Harden	United States	10.02
6th	Tim Montgomery	United States	10.04
7th	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.07
8th	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.24

• 

  Bruny Surin (here in 2019) , winner of numerous relay medals, became vice world champion like in 1995

• 

  Dwain Chambers, Vice European Champion in 1998 , won bronze

• 

  Obadele Thompson finished fourth

Video

• Maurice Greene & Bruny Surin (9.80 / 9.84) - 1999 World Championships (100m Final) - Seville, Spain , video published on July 30, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on July 9, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 9, 2020
• Men 100m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 100 m, Seville 1999, p. 91 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 9, 2020
2. ↑ Innocent Asonze on peoplepill.com (English), accessed on July 9, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF suspend Davidson Ezinwa (NGR) and disqualify Mohamed Ibrahim Aden (SOM) on worldathletics.org August 24, 1999, accessed on July 9, 2020
4. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 56ff (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on July 9, 2020
5. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 86f (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on July 9, 2020