1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	82 athletes from 58 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 3, 1984 (preliminary round and quarter-finals) August 4, 1984 (semi-finals and final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Sam Graddy ( USA )   Ben Johnson ( CAN )

The men's 100-meter run at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 3 and 4, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 82 athletes took part.

The American Carl Lewis became Olympic champion . He won ahead of fellow countryman Sam Graddy and Canadian Ben Johnson .

The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Jürgen Evers , Christian Haas and Ralf Lübke . Lübke was eliminated in the preliminary round, Evers in the quarter-finals, Haas in the semi-finals.
The Liechtenstein Markus Büchel failed in the preliminary round.
Runners from Switzerland and Austria did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Allan Wells ( Great Britain )	10.25 s	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Carl Lewis ( USA )	10.07 s	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Frank Emmelmann ( GDR )	10.21 s	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Leandro Peñalver ( Cuba )	10.06 s	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Juan Núñez ( Dominican Republic )	10.16 s	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Nelson dos Santos ( Brazil )	10.3 s	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Suchart Jairsuraparp ( Thailand )	10.47 s	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Ernest Obeng ( Ghana )	10.2 s	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	9.93 s	Calvin Smith ( USA )	Colorado Springs , USA	3rd July 1983
Olympic record	9.95 s	Jim Hines ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 14, 1968

Preliminary round

Date: August 3, 1984

The 82 participants were drawn in eleven runs. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. Furthermore, the seven fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Nine countries sent athletes to the Olympic Games for the first time: Mohammad Abdullah competed in run 2 for the United Arab Emirates , in run 3 for Oman Abdullah Al-Akbary, for Mauritius Daniel André also in run 3, for Equatorial Guinea Gustavo Envela in run 8, for Gambia Omar Fye in run 8 and Bakary Jarju in run 11, for Bangladesh Saidur Rahman Dawn in run 8, for the Solomon Islands Johnson Kere in run 9, for Qatar Faraj Saad Marzouk in run 10 and for the British Virgin Islands Guy Hill in run 11 .

At the age of 16, Gustavo Envela was also the youngest participant. The oldest starter was Bakary Jarju at the age of 35 .

The Jamaican Raymond Stewart achieved the fastest lead time with 10.24 s in run 6. The slowest directly qualified athlete was Ivorian Kouadio Otokpa in run 10 with 10.72 s. The fastest athlete who failed to qualify was Jamaican Gus Young, who retired in the fourth run with 10.64 s.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.4 m / s, temperature: 23 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	10.32 s
2	Tony Sharpe	Canada	10.38 s
3	Mike McFarlane	Great Britain	10.47 s
4th	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.48 s
5	Peter Van Miltenburg	Australia	10.55 s
6th	Vicente Daniel	Mozambique	10.81 s
7th	Henry Ngolwe	Zambia	10.94 s
8th	Paul Réneau	Belize	10.96 s

Forward 2

Wind: +1.8 m / s, temperature: 24 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.32 s
2	Mohamed Purnomo	Indonesia	10.40 s
3	José Javier Arqués	Spain	10.42 s
4th	Marc Gasparoni	France	10.47 s
5	Emilio Samayoa	Guatemala	10.84 s
6th	Bernabé Messomo	Cameroon	10.98 s
7th	Charles Mbazira	Uganda	11.03 s
8th	Mohammad Abdullah	United Arab Emirates	11.11 s

Forward 3

Wind: +1.8 m / s, temperature: 24 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Desai Williams	Canada	10.35 s
2	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.39 s
3	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	10.45 s
4th	Christian Nenepath	Indonesia	10.66 s
	Henri Ndinga	People's Republic of the Congo
6th	Abdullah Al-Akbary	Oman	10.86 s
7th	Inoke Bainimoli	Fiji	11.15 s
8th	Daniel André	Mauritius	11.19 s

Forward 4

Wind: −0.8 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sumet Promna	Thailand	10.52 s
2	Paul Narracott	Australia	10.55 s
3	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	10.58 s
4th	Audrick Lightbourne	Bahamas	10.64 s
5	Gus Young	Jamaica	10.64 s
6th	William Trott	Bermuda	10.76 s
7th	Kgosiemang Khumoyarano	Botswana	11.49 s

Forward 5

Wind: +1.4 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sam Graddy	United States	10.29 s
2	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	10.41 s
3	Jürgen Evers	BR Germany	10.54 s
4th	Hiroki Fuwa	Japan	10.56 s
5	Philip Attipoe	Ghana	10.60 s
6th	Jean-Yves Mallat	Lebanon	10.83 s
7th	Markus Büchel	Liechtenstein	10.98 s
8th	Clifford Mamba	Swaziland	10.98 s

Forward 6

Wind: +1.9 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.24 s
2	Antoine Richard	France	10.35 s
3	Antonio Ullo	Italy	10.36 s
4th	Paulo Roberto Correia	Brazil	10.45 s
5	Anthony Jones	Barbados	10.69 s
6th	Oliver Daniels	Liberia	10.76 s
7th	Muhammad Mansha	Pakistan	10.87 s

Forward 7

Wind: +0.8 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.35 s
2	Yu Zhuanghui	People's Republic of China	10.53 s
3	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	10.59 s
4th	Earl Haley	Guyana	10.74 s
5	Julien Thode	Netherlands Antilles	10.92 s
6th	Ronald Russell	American Virgin Islands	11.02 s
7th	Denis Rose	Seychelles	11.04 s

Forward 8

The Italian Stefano Tilli reached the semi-finals and was eliminated in sixth

Wind: −0.8 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	10.46 s
2	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.48 s
3	Fred Martin	Australia	10.64 s
4th	Luís Barroso	Portugal	10.76 s
5	Gustavo Envela	Equatorial Guinea	10.79 s
6th	Omar Fye	Gambia	10.87 s
7th	Anthony Henry	Antigua and Barbuda	10.99 s
8th	Saidur Rahman Dawn	Bangladesh	11.25 s

Forward 9

Wind: −1.7 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ron Brown	United States	10.58 s
2	Luis Morales	Puerto Rico	10.60 s
3	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.70 s
4th	Ralf Lübke	BR Germany	10.70 s
5	Collins Mensah	Ghana	10.92 s
6th	Ivan Benjamin	Sierra Leone	11.13 s
7th	Johnson Kere	Solomon Islands	11.57 s

Forward 10

Pierfrancesco Pavoni from Italy was eliminated from fourth in his preliminary run

Wind: −1.4 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Norman Edwards	Jamaica	10.57 s
2	Dudley Parker	Bahamas	10.65 s
3	Kouadio Otokpa	Ivory Coast	10.72 s
4th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	10.72 s
5	Faraj Saad Marzouk	Qatar	10.78 s
6th	Odiya Silweya	Malawi	11.22 s
7th	Glen Abrahams	Costa Rica	11.57 s

Forward 11

Wind: +1.4 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Christian Haas	BR Germany	10.41 s
2	Alfonso Pitters	Panama	10.50 s
3	Katsuhiko Nakaya	Brazil	10.55 s
4th	Bakary Jarju	Gambia	10.68 s
5	Sim Deok-seop	South Korea	10.72 s
6th	Guy Hill	British Virgin Islands	11.11 s
7th	Aldo Salandra	El Salvador	11.31 s

Quarter finals

Date: August 3, 1984

In each of the five races, the first three athletes qualified for the semi-finals. The fastest-placed fourth ( Lucky Loser ) also made it through . The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky loser in light green.

With 10.04 s, Carl Lewis ran the fastest quarter-final time in run 5. Marc Gasperoni was able to qualify directly in the third run with 10.56 seconds. It was a qualifier's slowest time. In contrast, the 10.52s that José Javier Arqués and Peter Van Miltenburg achieved in the fifth run were not enough for advancement.

Run 1

Wind: −0.7 m / s, temperature: 28 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.41 s
2	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	10.47 s
3	Christian Haas	BR Germany	10.51 s
4th	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.56 s
5	Antonio Ullo	Italy	10.57 s
6th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	10.60 s
7th	Paul Narracott	Australia	10.60 s
8th	Alfonso Pitters	Panama	10.63 s

Run 2

Wind: −0.1 m / s, temperature: 26 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sam Graddy	United States	10.15 s
2	Tony Sharpe	Canada	10.33 s
3	Norman Edwards	Jamaica	10.44 s
4th	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.53 s
5	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	10.54 s
6th	Yu Zhuanghui	People's Republic of China	10.59 s
7th	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	10.59 s
DNS	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium

Run 3

Wind: −1.4 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.39 s
2	Ron Brown	United States	10.40 s
3	Marc Gasparoni	France	10.56 s
4th	Sumet Promna	Thailand	10.61 s
5	Katsuhiko Nakaya	Brazil	10.69 s
6th	Hiroki Fuwa	Japan	10.75 s
7th	Philip Attipoe	Ghana	10.78 s
8th	Kouadio Otokpa	Ivory Coast	10.80 s

Run 4

Wind: +0.8 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.30 s
2	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.33 s
3	Mohamed Purnomo	Indonesia	10.43 s
4th	José Javier Arqués	Spain	10.52 s
	Peter Van Miltenburg	Australia
6th	Antoine Richard	France	10.53 s
7th	Paulo Roberto Correia	Brazil	10.54 s
8th	Audrick Lightbourne	Bahamas	10.59 s

Run 5

Wind: +0.8 m / s, temperature: 27 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	10.04 s
2	Desai Williams	Canada	10.27 s
3	Luis Morales	Puerto Rico	10.35 s
4th	Mike McFarlane	Great Britain	10.36 s
5	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.42 s
6th	Dudley Parker	Bahamas	10.58 s
7th	Fred Martin	Australia	10.61 s
8th	Jürgen Evers	BR Germany	10.69 s

Semifinals

Date: August 4, 1984

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Again Carl Lewis ran the fastest time, this time 10.14 s in the second run. In the same run, the British Olympic champion from 1980 Allan Wells was eliminated.

Run 1

Wind: +0.7 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.26 s
2	Sam Graddy	United States	10.27 s
3	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	10.32 s
4th	Ron Brown	United States	10.34 s
5	Desai Williams	Canada	10.34 s
6th	Christian Haas	BR Germany	10.41 s
7th	Marc Gasperoni	France	10.49 s
8th	Mohamed Purnomo	Indonesia	10.51 s

Run 2

Wind: −1.5 m / s, temperature: 25 ° C

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	10.14 s
2	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.42 s
3	Mike McFarlane	Great Britain	10.45 s
4th	Tony Sharpe	Canada	10.52 s
5	Luis Morales	Puerto Rico	10.54 s
6th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.55 s
7th	Norman Edwards	Jamaica	10.63 s
8th	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.71 s

Olympic Champion Carl Lewis, USA

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	9.99 s
2	Sam Graddy	United States	10.19 s
3	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.22 s
4th	Ron Brown	United States	10.26 s
5	Mike McFarlane	Great Britain	10.27 s
6th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.29 s
7th	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	10.33 s
8th	Tony Sharpe	Canada	10.35 s

Date: August 4, 1984

Wind: +0.2 m / s, temperature: 23 ° C

The lack of athletes from the boycott states had little impact in this discipline. All top favorites were there, changes could have been made. U. given in the stands behind the medal places.

Three Americans, two British, two Canadians and a Jamaican had qualified for the final. With Carl Lewis , the USA were the favorites. Lewis had set out to win four gold medals - 100 m , 200 m , long jump and 4 × 100 m relay - in Los Angeles, imitating his role model Jesse Owens , who had achieved this at the 1936 Berlin Olympics .

The fastest start in the final, however, got Sam Graddy , who was in the lead up to the 50-meter mark. Only after increasing the speed was Lewis able to overtake his teammate, who was still able to fend off the attack by Canadian Ben Johnson. Lewis won by two tenths of a second, the largest lead in an Olympic final since 1908. The silver medal went to Graddy. Johnson won bronze in front of the third US runner Ron Brown , who prevented a triple success for the hosts.

Carl Lewis ran for the USA's 13th Olympic victory in this discipline. At the same time, it was the ninth double victory of US athletes in this discipline.

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 14f

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m in English, accessed on January 6, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 270f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018

Video

• Men's 100m Final at LA Olympics 1984 , posted June 10, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 6, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records 100 m men , accessed on January 6, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 270, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018
3. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 270f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018
4. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 271, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018
5. ↑ SportsReference 100 m , English, accessed on January 6, 2018