1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	72 athletes from 34 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 20, 1952 (preliminary / quarter finals) July 21, 1952 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Lindy Remigino ( USA )   Herb McKenley ( JAM )   McDonald Bailey ( GBR )

The men's 100-meter run at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 20 and 21, 1952 in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki . 72 athletes took part.

The American Lindy Remigino was Olympic champion ahead of the Jamaican Herb McKenley . Bronze went to McDonald Bailey from Britain .

Existing records

World record	10.2 s	Jesse Owens ( USA )	Chicago , USA	June 20, 1936
		Harold Davis ( USA )	Compton , USA	June 6, 1941
		Lloyd LaBeach ( Panama )	Fresno , USA	May 15, 1948
		Barney Ewell ( USA )	Evanston , USA	July 9, 1948
		Emmanuel McDonald Bailey ( Great Britain )	Belgrade , Yugoslavia	August 25, 1951
Olympic record	10.3 s	Eddie Tolan ( USA )	Los Angeles Olympic Final , USA	August 1, 1932

Conducting the competition

The runners started twelve heats on July 20th. The two best athletes in each case qualified for the quarter-finals on the same day from which the three best sprinters reached the preliminary decision, which, like the final, took place on July 21st. In the semi-finals, the top three qualified for the final.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 20, 3 p.m .: preliminary runs

July 20, 6:50 p.m .: quarter-finals

July 21, 3:15 p.m .: semi-finals

July 21, 5:20 p.m .: Final

Prelims

Date: July 20, 1952 , from 3 p.m.

Forward 1

Josè Julio Barillas was the first athlete from Guatemala to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	John Treloar	Australia	10.7 s	10.92 s
2	Alan Lillington	Great Britain	10.8 s	11.06 s
3	Gabriel Laryea	Gold coast	11.1 s	11.18 s
4th	Miroslav Horčic	Czechoslovakia	11.1 s	11.23 s
5	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	11.1 s	11.40 s
6th	Youssef Ali Omar	Egypt	11.3 s	11.53 s
7th	José Julio Barillas	Guatemala	11.1 s	11.40 s

Forward 2

With Adul Wanasatith, the first athlete from Thailand took part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Étienne Bally	France	10.7 s	10.97 s
2	Angel Kolew	Bulgaria	10.9 s	11.01 s
3	Paul Dolan	Ireland	11.0 s	11.12 s
4th	Raúl Mazorra	Cuba	11.0 s	11.19 s
5	Bob Hutchinson	Canada	11.0 s	11.26 s
6th	Masaji Tahima	Japan	11.1 s	11.29 s
7th	Adul Wanasatith	Thailand	11.1 s	11.40 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.4 s	10.65 s
2	Carlo Vittori	Italy	10.9 s	10.98 s
3	Mikhail Kazantzew	Soviet Union	11.0 s	11.16 s
4th	Hörður Haraldsson	Iceland	11.0 s	11.32 s
5	Javier Souza	Mexico	11.1 s	11.31 s
6th	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	11.2 s	11.33 s

Forward 4

Guillermo Gutiérrez was the first athlete from Venezuela to compete in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	William Jack	Great Britain	10.8 s	11.05 s
2	Romeo Galán	Argentina	11.0 s	11.11 s
3	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	11.0 s	11.13 s
4th	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt	11.2 s	11.40 s
5	Guillermo Gutiérrez	Venezuela	11.2 s	11.42 s
6th	Boonterm Pakpuang	Thailand	11.7 s	11.85 s

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.7 s	10.88 s
2	György Csanyi	Hungary	10.9 s	11.09 s
3	Emil Kiszka	Poland	10.9 s	11.13 s
4th	Pauli Tavisalo	Finland	11.0 s	11.30 s
5	Tomás Paquete	Portugal	11.2 s	11.45 s
6th	Walter Sutton	Canada	11.2 s	11.45 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	David Tobacco	Israel	10.9 s	10.88 s
2	Tomio Hosoda	Japan	11.0 s	11.14 s
3	Willy Schneider	Switzerland	11.1 s	11.22 s
4th	Angel Gavrilov	Bulgaria	11.1 s	11.29 s
5	Juan Leiva	Venezuela	11.2 s	11.31 s

Forward 7

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.7 s	10.93 s
2	Theo Saat	Netherlands	10.9 s	11.02 s
3	Muhammad Sharif Butt	Pakistan	11.0 s	11.17 s
4th	Voitto Hellsten	Finland	11.1 s	11.36 s
5	George Acquaah	Gold coast	11.2 s	11.47 s
6th	Mariano Acosta	Argentina	11.4 s	11.58 s
7th	Wolfgango Montanari	Italy	11.8 s	12.25 s

Forward 8

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Rafael Fortun	Cuba	10.5 s	10.93 s
2	Byron LaBeach	Jamaica	10.9 s	11.09 s
3	Franco Leccese	Italy	10.9 s	11.18 s
4th	Issi Baran	Finland	11.0 s	11.32 s
5	Fritz Griesser	Switzerland	11.1 s	11.54 s

Forward 9

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Werner Zandt	BR Germany	10.7 s	11.03 s
2	Muhammad Aslam	Pakistan	10.9 s	11.18 s
3	Don McFarlane	Canada	11.0 s	11.25 s
4th	Zdeněk Pospíšil	Czechoslovakia	11.0 s	11.25 s
5	Edward Ajado	Nigeria	11.0 s	11.25 s
6th	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	11.4 s	11.51 s
DSQ	Enrique Beckles	Argentina			False start

Forward 10

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Art Bragg	United States	10.5 s	10.73 s
2	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	10.8 s	11.00 s
3	Titus Erinle	Nigeria	10.9 s	11.12 s
4th	László Zarándi	Hungary	10.9 s	11.26 s
5	Pétur Sigurðsson	Iceland	11.3 s	11.55 s
6th	Arun Sankosik	Thailand	11.5 s	11.76 s

Forward 11

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.4 s	10.73 s
2	Lavy Pinto	India	10.9 s	11.00 s
3	René Bonino	France	10.9 s	11.00 s
4th	František Brož	Czechoslovakia	11.0 s	11.32 s
5	Abdul Aziz	Pakistan	11.2 s	11.48 s
6th	Rui Maia	Portugal	11.5 s	11.79 s

Forward 12

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Dean Smith	United States	10.6 s	10.90 s
2	Alain Porthault	France	10.7 s	11.04 s
3	Erich Fuchs	BR Germany	10.8 s	11.19 s
4th	Karim Olowu	Nigeria	11.0 s	11.27 s

Quarter finals

Date: July 20, 1952 , from 6:50 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.5 s	10.73 s
2	John Treloar	Australia	10.7 s	10.84 s
3	Alain Porthault	France	10.7 s	10.99 s
4th	Muhammad Aslam	Pakistan	10.9 s	11.02 s
5	Byron LaBeach	Jamaica	11.0 s	11.05 s
DSQ	Angel Kolew	Bulgaria			False start

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.4 s	10.68 s
2	Theo Saat	Netherlands	10.6 s	10.93 s
3	Lavy Pinto	India	10.7 s	10.98 s
4th	Étienne Bally	France	10.8 s	10.98 s
5	Hans Wehrli-Frei	Switzerland	10.8 s	11.05 s
6th	Alan Lillington	Great Britain	10.9 s	11.26 s

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Dean Smith	United States	10.4 s	10.69 s
2	Rafael Fortun	Cuba	10.7 s	10.90 s
3	William Jack	Great Britain	10.8 s	10.94 s
4th	Werner Zandt	BR Germany	10.8 s	10.98 s
5	Romeo Galán	Argentina	10.9 s	11.08 s
6th	David Tobacco	Israel	10.9 s	11.10 s

Run 4

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.5 s	10.72 s
2	Art Bragg	United States	10.5 s	10.75 s
3	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.7 s	10.92 s
4th	Tomio Hosoda	Japan	10.8 s	11.03 s
5	György Csanyi	Hungary	10.9 s	11.07 s
6th	Carlo Vittori	Italy	10.9 s	11.19 s

Semifinals

Theo Saat (NED) failed in the semi-finals.

Date: July 21, 1952 , from 3:15 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.5 s	10.74 s
2	Dean Smith	United States	10.6 s	10.78 s
3	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.6 s	10.86 s
4th	Lavy Pinto	India	10.7 s	10.94 s
5	Alain Porthault	France	10.8 s	11.04 s
6th	Art Bragg	United States	10.9 s	11.43 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.4 s	10.74 s
2	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.5 s	10.74 s
3	John Treloar	Australia	10.6 s	10.76 s
4th	Rafael Fortun	Cuba	10.7 s	10.92 s
5	William Jack	Great Britain	10.7 s	11.01 s
6th	Theo Saat	Netherlands	10.8 s	11.12 s

Silver medal for the Jamaican Herb McKenley - photo from 1948

final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.4 s	10.79 s
2	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.4 s	10.80 s
3	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.4 s	10.83 s
4th	Dean Smith	United States	10.4 s	10.84 s
5	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.5 s	10.88 s
6th	John Treloar	Australia	10.5 s	10.91 s

Date: July 21, 1952 , 5:20 p.m.

In the 100 meter sprint , the Americans were favored. Before the Games, Art Bragg, Andy Stanfield and Jim Golliday were traded as medal candidates. But Stanfield did not start over the 100 meters and concentrated on the 200 meters , where he also won. Golliday had to pass due to injury. Bragg suffered an injury in the semifinals and missed the final. The US team was represented by the outsiders Lindy Remigino and Dean Smith, who competed against the favorites Herb McKenley from Jamaica and the British McDonald Bailey. The final field was completed by the Soviet Russian Vladimir Sucharew and the Australian John Treloar.

After the start, Remigino took the lead immediately, but between him and McKenley it was very exciting until the finish and the run-in was very close. Many viewers thought the Jamaican had won. But the finish photo and the electronic timekeeping provided information about the outcome of the closest race in the history of this discipline at the Olympic Games. The first four runners crossed the finish line in 10.4 seconds, the sprinters in fifth and sixth in 10.5 seconds. The finish photo - seen in the official report on page 249 - shows Remigino in front of McKenley and Bailey, behind Smith in front of Sucharew and Treloar. There was a time span of 12 hundredths of a second between the winner and the sixth place.

Lindy Remigino won the ninth gold medal for the USA in the twelfth Olympic final.

Herb McKenley became the first Jamaican medalist in the 100 meters.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 64–66

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed September 24, 2017
• Official report pp. 268–271, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 24, 2017
• Lindy Remigino - 100m - 1952 Helsinki Olympics , published November 27, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed September 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 66
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Official report, page 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)