1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 100 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 76 athletes from 33 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Amsterdam | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 29, 1928 (preliminary / quarter-finals) July 30, 1928 (semi-finals / final) |
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The men's 100-meter run at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on July 29 and 30, 1928 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. 76 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Canadian Percy Williams ahead of the British Jack London . Bronze went to the German Georg Lammers .
Existing records
- World record : 10.4 s - Charles Paddock ( USA ), Redlands , April 23, 1921
- Olympic record : 10.6s - Donald Lippincott ( USA ), 16th heat to the Olympic Games in Stockholm , July 6, 1912 / Harold Abrahams ( Great Britain ), quarter-, semi-finals and final in Paris , 6/7. July 1924
Conducting the competition
On July 29th, the runners competed in sixteen heats. The two best athletes each qualified for the quarter-finals on the same day. From the six quarter-finals, the two best runners each made it to the next round, the semi-finals. The two preliminary rounds and the final were held on July 30th. In the semifinals, the first three qualified for the final.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Prelims
Date: July 29, 1928
Not all times have been passed down.
Forward 1
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1 | John Fitzpatrick |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Richard Corts |
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11.0 s | |
3 | Wilhelm Hennings |
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11.2 s | |
4th | Willy Dujardin |
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11.4 s | |
5 | Angelos Lambrou |
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11.4 s |
Forward 2
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1 | Sidney Atkinson |
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11.2 s | |
2 | André Mourlon |
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11.3 s | |
3 | Jesús Moraila |
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k. A. | |
4th | Franco Reyser |
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DNS | Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichmann |
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Forward 3
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1 | Frank Wykoff |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Paul Brochart |
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k. A. | |
3 | Mario Gomez Daza |
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k. A. | |
4th | Jaap Boot |
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5 | Konstantinos Petridis |
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6th | Fernando Muñagorri |
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Forward 4
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1 | Ferenc Gerő |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Aubrey Burton-Durham |
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k. A. | |
3 | Willy Weibel |
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11.4 s | |
4th | Diego Ordóñez |
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11.4 s | |
5 | John Heap |
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k. A. | |
6th | Eduardo Albe |
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Forward 5
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1 | Jack London |
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10.8 s | |
2 | George Hester |
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k. A. | |
3 | Ladislau Peter |
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4th | Francisco Costas |
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5 | Mehmet Ali Aybar |
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Forward 6
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1 | Juan Bautista Pina |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Ralph Adams |
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k. A. | |
3 | Edgardo Toetti |
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4th | Iwao Aizawa |
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5 | Semih Turkdoğan |
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Forward 7
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1 | Wilfred Legg |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Cyril Gill |
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11.0 s | |
3 | Rodolfo Wagner |
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k. A. | |
DNS | Sándor Hajdú |
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Giuseppe Castelli |
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Forward 8
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1 | Hubert Houben |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Johannes Viljoen |
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11.0 s | |
3 | Karel Kněnický |
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11.3 s | |
4th | Dolf Benz |
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11.4 s |
Forward 9
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1 | Georg Lammers |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Valéry Théard |
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k. A. | |
3 | János Paizs |
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k. A. | |
4th | Leo Jørgensen |
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5 | Jean Moulin |
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6th | Renos Frangoudis |
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Forward 10
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1 | Walter Rangeley |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Marinus van den Berge |
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11.1 s | |
3 | Johann Bartl |
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k. A. | |
4th | Şinasi Şahingiray |
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Forward 11
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1 | István Raggambi |
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11.0 s | |
2 | James Carlton |
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11.1 s | |
3 | Alberto Barucco |
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k. A. | |
4th | Oscar Alvarado |
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5 | Juan Serrahima |
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6th | R. Burns |
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Forward 12
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1 | Percy Williams |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Jaroslav Vykoupil |
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k. A. | |
3 | André Dufau |
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4th | José de Lima |
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5 | Haris Šveminas |
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Forward 13
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1 | José Barrientos |
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11.0 s | |
2 | André Cerbonney |
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k. A. | |
3 | Fred Zinner |
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k. A. | |
DNS | Arthur Porritt |
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Forward 14
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1 | Claude Bracey |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Gilbert Auvergne |
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11.1 s | |
3 | Hermann Geissler |
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11.2 s | |
4th | Risto Mattila |
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11.3 s | |
5 | Emmanuel Goldsmith |
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11.5 s | |
6th | George Schmit |
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12.2 s |
Forward 15
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1 | Henry Russell |
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11.0 s | |
2 | Denis Cussen |
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k. A. | |
3 | Willy Tschopp |
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k. A. | |
4th | Adolphe Groscol |
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Forward 16
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1 | Robert McAllister |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Anselmo Gonzaga |
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k. A. | |
3 | Enrique de Chávarri |
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k. A. | |
4th | Fritz Eyschen |
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DNS | H. Enis |
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Quarter finals
Date: July 29, 1928
Not all times have been passed down.
Run 1
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1 | Wilfred Legg |
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10.8 s | |
2 | John Fitzpatrick |
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3 | Ferenc Gerő |
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4th | Marinus van den Berge |
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5 | Denis Cussen |
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6th | Jaroslav Vykoupil |
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Run 2
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1 | Robert McAllister |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Richard Corts |
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11.0 s | |
3 | Cyril Gill |
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k. A. | |
4th | István Raggambi |
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5 | Aubrey Burton-Durham |
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6th | André Cerbonney |
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Run 3
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1 | Henry Russell |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Hubert Houben |
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k. A. | |
3 | Gilbert Auvergne |
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k. A. | |
4th | George Hester |
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5 | Sidney Atkinson |
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Run 4
Percy Williams set the Olympic record in this run .
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Percy Williams |
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10.6 s | ORe |
2 | Jack London |
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10.8 s | |
3 | Valéry Théard |
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k. A. | |
4th | André Mourlon |
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5 | José Barrientos |
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Run 5
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1 | Frank Wykoff |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Juan Bautista Pina |
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k. A. | |
3 | Johannes Viljoen |
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k. A. | |
4th | Anselmo Gonzaga |
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5 | James Carlton |
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Run 6
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Claude Bracey |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Georg Lammers |
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k. A. | |
3 | Walter Rangeley |
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k. A. | |
4th | Ralph Adams |
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5 | Paul Brochart |
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Semifinals
Date: July 30, 1928
Run 1
The three winners crossed the finish line at the same time and together they set the existing Olympic record .
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Robert McAllister |
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10.6 s | ORe |
2 | Percy Williams |
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10.6 s | ORe |
3 | Wilfred Legg |
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10.6 s | ORe |
4th | Hubert Houben |
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10.7 s | |
5 | Claude Bracey |
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10.8 s | |
6th | Juan Bautista Pina |
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11.0 s |
Run 2
The Olympic record was also set in the second quarter-finals , this time by Jack London.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Jack London |
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10.6 s | ORe |
2 | Georg Lammers |
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10.7 s | |
3 | Frank Wykoff |
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10.7 s | |
4th | Henry Russell |
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10.8 s | |
5 | Richard Corts |
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10.8 s | |
6th | John Fitzpatrick |
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11.2 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Percy Williams |
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10.8 s | |
2 | Jack London |
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10.9 s | |
3 | Georg Lammers |
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10.9 s | |
4th | Frank Wykoff |
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11.0 s | |
5 | Wilfred Legg |
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11.0 s | |
6th | Robert McAllister |
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11.0 s |
Date: July 30, 1928
There was no definite favorite for the race, and no one particularly emerged in the preliminary and intermediate runs. After two false starts, caused by Wilfred Legg and Frank Wykoff, Percy Williams was in front from the start and ran for the gold medal. With his trainer Bob Granger in his hotel room in Amsterdam, with a mattress leaning against the wall, he had worked on his not yet perfect start and, in Granger's eyes, created the finishing touches as the basis for his first gold medal.
The bronze medal for Georg Lammers came as a surprise. At the German Athletics Championships in the Olympic year, Lammers only finished third, so no one had expected him here.
With his victory over the 200 meters two days later, Percy Williams became the first double Olympic sprint winner who did not come from the USA. It was also the first Canadian Olympic victory over 100 meters .
For the first time the US team remained in this discipline without winning a medal.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 186–188
Web links
- SportsReference 100 m , accessed September 10, 2017
- Official report pp. 397-402, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 10, 2017
Video
- Percy Williams Wins 100m & 200m Gold At 19 - Amsterdam 1928 Olympics , published May 9, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 188
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)