1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 100 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 65 athletes from 48 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadio Olimpico | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 31, 1960 (preliminary / quarter-finals) September 1, 1960 (semi-final / final) |
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The men's 100-meter run at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on August 31 and September 1, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 65 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Armin Hary from Germany. He won ahead of the American Dave Sime and the British Peter Radford .
Other German starters were Walter Mahlendorf and Manfred Germar . Both failed in their preliminary stages - Germar was not able to perform well due to injury and illness. Heinz Müller took part for Switzerland. He qualified for the quarter-finals, in which he was eliminated as the last of his run. The Austrian Elmar Kunauer was eliminated in the preliminary run.
Existing records
World record | 10.0 s |
Armin Hary ( BR Germany )
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Zurich , Switzerland | June 21, 1960 |
Harry Jerome ( Canada )
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Saskatoon , Canada | July 15, 1960 | ||
Olympic record | 10.3 s |
Eddie Tolan ( USA )
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Los Angeles final , USA | August 1, 1932 |
Bobby Morrow ( USA )
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Quarter-finals from Melbourne , Australia | November 23, 1956 | ||
Ira Murchison ( USA )
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Quarter-finals from Melbourne , Australia | November 23, 1956 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in nine heats on August 31. The three best runners qualified for the quarter-finals on the same day on which the three best runners reached the semi-finals. The two semi-finals and the final were held on September 1st. In the semifinals, the first three qualified for the final.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
August 31, 9:00 a.m .: preliminary runs
August 31, 4:00 p.m .: quarter-finals
September 1, 3:40 p.m .: semi-finals
September 1st, 5.30 p.m .: Final
Prelims
Date: August 31, 1960, from 9:00 a.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Enrique Figuerola |
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10.4 s | 10.57 s | |
2 | Carl Fredrik Bunæs |
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10.7 s | 10.80 s | |
3 | Yuri Konovalov |
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10.7 s | 10.83 s | |
4th | Suthi Manyakass |
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10.8 s | 10.87 s | |
5 | Mikhail Bachvarov |
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11.0 s | 10.95 s | |
6th | Amos Grodzinowsky |
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11.1 s | 11.19 s | |
7th | Raj Joshi Tilak |
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11.3 s | 11.43 s |
Forward 2
Gustav Ntiforo was the first athlete to compete for Ghana . Until 1956 the name Gold Coast was used.
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Seraphino Antao |
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10.5 s | 10.64 s | |
2 | Armin Hary |
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10.6 s | 10.74 s | |
3 | Heinz Müller |
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10.8 s | 10.94 s | |
4th | Gustav Ntiforo |
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11.0 s | 11.15 s | |
5 | Isaac Gomez |
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11.0 s | 11.19 s | |
6th | Dennis Tipping |
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11.2 s | 11.30 s | |
7th | Abdul Khaliq |
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11.2 s | 11.34 s |
Forward 3
Dennis Johnson was the first track and field athlete to compete for the West Indian Federation .
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Horacio Esteves |
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10.4 s | 10.62 s | |
2 | Dennis Johnson |
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10.4 s | 10.66 s | |
3 | Dave Sime |
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10.5 s | 10.75 s | |
4th | Lynn Eves |
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10.8 s | 11.01 s | |
5 | Aggrey Awori |
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10.9 s | 11.09 s | |
6th | Patrick Lowry |
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10.9 s | 11.11 s | |
7th | Roba Negousse |
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11.3 s | 11.47 s |
Forward 4
Bouchaib El-Maachi was the first Moroccan athlete to take part in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Harry Jerome |
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10.5 s | 10.72 s | |
2 | Jocelyn Delecour |
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10.5 s | 10.75 s | |
3 | Erasmus Amukun |
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10.6 s | 10.80 s | |
4th | Affonso da Silva |
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10.8 s | 10.98 s | |
5 | Bouchaib El-Maachi |
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10.9 s | 11.11 s | |
6th | Shahrudin Mohamed Ali |
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11.0 s | 11.11 s |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Tom Robinson |
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10.5 s | 10.68 s | |
2 | Lloyd Murad |
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10.7 s | 10.28 s | |
3 | Sitiveni Moceidreke |
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10.8 s | 10.92 s | |
4th | George Short |
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10.9 s | 11.04 s | |
5 | Emmanuel Putu |
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11.2 s | 11.34 s | |
6th | Kim Jong-cheol |
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11.5 s | 11.63 s |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Ray Norton |
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10.7 s | 10.88 s | |
2 | Gusman Kosanov |
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10.7 s | 10.90 s | |
3 | Santiago Plaza |
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10.8 s | 10.95 s | |
4th | Walter Mahlendorf |
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10.8 s | 10.98 s | |
5 | Romain Poté |
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11.0 s | 11.19 s | |
6th | Aydın Onur |
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11.3 s | 11.45 s | |
7th | Abdul Hadi Shekaib |
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11.6 s | 11.79 s |
Forward 7
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | David Jones |
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10.5 s | 10.69 s | |
2 | Abdoulaye Seye |
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10.6 s | 10.75 s | |
3 | Rafael Romero |
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10.7 s | 10.89 s | |
4th | Elmar Kunauer |
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11.0 s | 11.13 s | |
5 | Huang Suh-chuang |
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11.2 s | 11.37 s | |
6th | Khudir Zalata |
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11.0 s | 11.11 s | |
DNF | Iftikhar Shah |
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Forward 8
With Hamdan El-Tayeb, a track and field athlete from Sudan took part in the Olympic Games for the first time. The electronically timed times are unknown.
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Marian Foik |
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10.5 s | k. A. | |
2 | Edward Jefferys |
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10.6 s | ||
3 | Claude Piquemal |
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10.7 s | ||
4th | Jalal Gozal |
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10.9 s | k. A. | |
5 | Manfred Germar |
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11.0 s | ||
6th | Hamdan El-Tayeb |
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11.1 s | ||
7th | José Albarran |
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11.2 s |
Forward 9
Moustafa Abdel Kader was the first United Arab Republic athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Peter Radford |
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10.4 s | 10.51 s | |
2 | Frank Budd |
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10.4 s | 10.55 s | |
3 | Edwin Osolin |
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10.7 s | 10.86 s | |
4th | Hilmar Þorbjörnsson |
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10.9 s | 11.05 s | |
5 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos |
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11.0 s | 11.12 s | |
6th | Moustafa Abdel Kader |
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11.2 s | 11.34 s | |
7th | James Roberts |
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11.2 s | 11.37 s |
Quarter finals
Date: August 31, 1960, from 4 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Horacio Esteves |
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10.5 s | 10.71 s | |
2 | Tom Robinson |
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10.6 s | 10.76 s | |
3 | Ray Norton |
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10.6 s | 10.78 s | |
4th | Jocelyn Delecour |
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10.7 s | 10.87 s | |
5 | Edward Jefferys |
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10.7 s | 10.89 s | |
6th | Edwin Osolin |
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10.7 s | 10.90 s | |
7th | Heinz Müller |
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10.8 s | 10.95 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Armin Hary |
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10.2 s | 10.32 s | OR |
2 | Dave Sime |
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10.3 s | 10.37 s | |
3 | Marian Foik |
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10.4 s | 10.48 s | |
4th | Dennis Johnson |
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10.4 s | 10.51 s | |
5 | Carl Fredrik Bunæs |
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10.5 s | 10.69 s | |
6th | Yuri Konovalov |
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10.5 s | 10.69 s | |
7th | Sitiveni Moceidreke |
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10.7 s | 10.85 s |
Run 3
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Frank Budd |
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10.4 s | 10.52 s | |
2 | Enrique Figuerola |
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10.4 s | 10.53 s | |
3 | David Jones |
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10.5 s | 10.68 s | |
4th | Erasmus Amukun |
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10.6 s | 10.75 s | |
5 | Claude Piquemal |
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10.6 s | 10.76 s | |
6th | Gusman Kosanov |
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10.7 s | 10.87 s | |
7th | Santiago Plaza |
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10.8 s | 10.93 s |
Run 4
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Harry Jerome |
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10.4 s | 10.58 s | |
2 | Peter Radford |
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10.4 s | 10.60 s | |
3 | Seraphino Antao |
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10.4 s | 10.61 s | |
4th | Abdoulaye Seye |
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10.4 s | 10.64 s | |
5 | Lloyd Murad |
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10.8 s | 10.97 s | |
6th | Rafael Romero |
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11.1 s | 11.23 s |
Semifinals
Date: September 1, 1960, from 3:40 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Peter Radford |
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10.4 s | 10.57 s | |
2 | Enrique Figuerola |
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10.4 s | 10.58 s | |
3 | Frank Budd |
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10.5 s | 10.65 s | |
4th | Marian Foik |
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10.5 s | 10.66 s | |
5 | Tom Robinson |
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10.5 s | 10.69 s | |
DNF | Harry Jerome |
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Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Armin Hary |
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10.3 s | 10.41 s | |
2 | Dave Sime |
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10.4 s | 10.46 s | |
3 | Ray Norton |
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10.5 s | 10.47 s | |
4th | David Jones |
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10.4 s | 10.48 s | |
5 | Horacio Esteves |
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10.6 s | 10.57 s | |
6th | Seraphino Antao |
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10.6 s | 10.72 s |
final
Date: September 1, 1960, 5:30 p.m.
The outcome of this race was open. A duel between the US sprinter Ray Norton, winner of the US trials, and Dave Sime with the European champion from 1958 , Armin Hary from Germany, as the challenger, who had set a new world record in June, was expected . In July, Canadian Harry Jerome set Harys record but Jerome was out due to injury.
The final race began with two false starts, first by Sime, then by Hary. The third attempt to start was successful, and thanks to his excellent acceleration in the first few meters, Hary was clearly ahead halfway through the route. But on the second 50 meters Sime came closer and closer, but couldn't quite reach Hary. Armin Hary, lane 6, won the gold medal in front of Dave Sime, lane 1, and the Briton Peter Radford on lane 5. Behind was Cuban Enrique Figuerola, lane 4. The favorite Norton came on lane 3 as last behind Frank Budd, Lane 2 to the finish.
It was the fastest final at the Olympic Games to date. All runners achieved times of up to 10.5 seconds. There was a difference of only 18 hundredths of a second between the first and the last.
Armin Hary won the first Olympic victory of a German over 100 meters and the first Olympic victory of a German athlete since 1936 .
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 | Armin Hary |
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10.2 s | 10.32 s | ORe |
2 | Dave Sime |
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10.2 s | 10.35 s | ORe |
3 | Peter Radford |
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10.3 s | 10.42 s | |
4th | Enrique Figuerola |
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10.3 s | 10.44 s | |
5 | Frank Budd |
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10.3 s | 10.46 s | |
6th | Ray Norton |
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10.4 s | 10.50 s |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 177–180
Web links
- SportsReference 100 m , accessed October 10, 2017
- Official report pp. 65–68, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
- Armin Hary - The World's Fastest 100m Starter - Rome 1960 Olympics , published April 2, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed October 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records, 100 m men , accessed on October 10, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 66f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 67 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 68 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 10, 2017
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 178f