1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	81 athletes from 66 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	July 31, 1992 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) August 1, 1992 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Linford Christie ( GBR )   Frank Fredericks ( NAM )   Dennis Mitchell ( USA )

The men's 100-meter race at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on July 31 and August 1, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 81 athletes took part.

The British Linford Christie became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Frank Fredericks from Namibia and the US American Dennis Mitchell .

While the Swiss Stefan Burkart made it to the quarter-finals and was eliminated there, the Austrian Andreas Berger was disqualified after two false starts in his preliminary round.
Athletes from Germany and Liechtenstein were not there.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Carl Lewis ( USA )	9.92 s	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991		9.86 s	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Linford Christie ( Great Britain )	10.00 s	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Robson da Silva ( Brazil )	10.32 s	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	John Mair ( Jamaica )	10.56 s	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Robson da Silva ( Brazil )	10.18 s	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Talal Mansour ( Qatar )	10.29 s	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Victor Omagbemi ( Nigeria )	10.34 s	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Joseph Onika ( Solomon Islands )	10.75 s	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	9.86 s	Carl Lewis ( USA )	Tokyo , Japan	August 25, 1991
Olympic record	9.92 s		Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 24, 1988

Preliminary round

Date: July 31, 1992

In the preliminary round, the athletes competed in a total of ten preliminary runs. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Leroy Burrell	United States	10.21 s
2	Satoru Inoue	Nigeria	10.48 s
3	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.55 s
4th	Abdoulie Janneh	Gambia	10.71 s
5	Hassan Illiassou	Niger	10.73 s
6th	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	Bahrain	10.80 s
7th	Jaime Zelaya	Honduras	11.02 s
8th	Claude Roumain	Haiti	11.07 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.21 s
2	Vitaly Sawin	EUN	10.29 s
3	Samuel Nchinda	Cameroon	10.41 s
4th	Gustavo Envela	Equatorial Guinea	10.65 s
5	Florencio Aguilar	Panama	10.73 s
6th	Dominique Canti	San Marino	10.80 s
DNF	Charles Tayot	Gabon
DSQ	Andreas Berger	Austria

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.48 s
2	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	10.55 s
3	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.63 s
4th	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.77 s
5	Hussain Arif	Pakistan	10.83 s
6th	Fabian Muyaba	Zimbabwe	10.84 s
7th	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	10.94 s
8th	Henry Daley Colphon	Costa Rica	11.11 s

Forward 4

Frank Fredericks was the first Namibian athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.29 s
2	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	10.57 s
3	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	10.64 s
4th	Boeviyoulou Lawson	Togo	10.69 s
5	Sriyath Dissanayake	Sri Lanka	10.87 s
6th	Gabriel Simeon	Grenada	11.10 s
7th	Adam Hassan Sakak	Sudan	11.12 s
8th	Robinson Stewart	Swaziland	11.20 s

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.61 s
2	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.63 s
3	John Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.64 s
4th	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	10.71 s
5	Henrico Atkins	Barbados	10.83 s
6th	Golam Ambia	Bangladesh	11.06 s
7th	Gabrieli Qoro	Fiji	11.14 s
8th	Mark Sherwin	Cook Islands	11.53 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.31 s
2	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.55 s
3	Eric Akogyiram	Ghana	10.60 s
4th	Juan Trapero	Spain	10.64 s
5	Joel Otim	Uganda	10.84 s
6th	Soryba Diakité	Guinea	11.10 s
7th	Noureddine Ould Ménira	Mauritania	11.22 s
8th	Ahmed Shageef	Maldives	11.36 s

Forward 7

The Brazilian André da Silva was eliminated as fifth in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.36 s
2	Talal Mansour	Qatar	10.43 s
3	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.67 s
4th	Visut Watanasin	Thailand	10.72 s
5	André da Silva	Brazil	10.78 s
6th	Valentin Ngbogo	Central African Republic	10.79 s
7th	Bernard Manana	Papua New Guinea	11.35 s
8th	Sithixay Sicpraseuth	Laos	12.02 s

Forward 8

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.47 s
2	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	10.57 s
3	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	10.58 s
4th	Kennedy Ondiek	Kenya	10.60 s
5	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.78 s
6th	David Nkoua	Republic of the Congo	10.96 s
7th	Emery Paul Gill	Belize	11.51 s
8th	Ahmed Al-Maomari Bashir	Oman	11.58 s

Forward 9

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Max Morinière	France	10.36 s
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.37 s
3	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.45 s
4th	Tatsuo Sugimoto	Japan	10.56 s
5	Wai-Ming Ku	Hong Kong	10.74 s
6th	Toluta'u Koula	Tonga	10.85 s
7th	Afonso Ferraz	Angola	11.32 s
8th	Fletcher Wamilee	Vanuatu	11.41 s

Forward 10

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.24 s
2	Mark Witherspoon	United States	10.27 s
3	Pavel Galkin	EUN	10.43 s
4th	Giannis Zisimidis	Cyprus	10.51 s
5	Shinji Aoto	Japan	10.54 s
6th	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	10.57 s
7th	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.87 s
8th	Bothloko Shebe	Lesotho	10.94 s
DNF	Patrice Traoré	Burkina Faso

Quarter finals

Date: July 31, 1992

The first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

Talal Mansour - here on a recording in 2011 - from Qatar reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in fifth place in his run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mark Witherspoon	United States	10.19 s
2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.29 s
3	Talal Mansour	Qatar	10.32 s
4th	Max Morinière	France	10.34 s
5	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	10.35 s
6th	Pavel Galkin	EUN	10.37 s
7th	Eric Akogyiram	Ghana	10.68 s
8th	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	10.77 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.13 s
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.24 s
3	Vitaly Sawin	EUN	10.33 s
4th	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.38 s
5	John Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.41 s
6th	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.57 s
7th	Samuel Nchinda	Cameroon	10.58 s
8th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.69 s

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.22 s
2	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.22 s
3	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.31 s
4th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.36 s
5	Satoru Inoue	Japan	10.50 s
6th	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	10.57 s
7th	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.64 s
8th	Giannis Zisimidis	Cyprus	10.65 s

Run 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.07 s
2	Leroy Burrell	United States	10.08 s
3	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.21 s
4th	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.30 s
5	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	10.40 s
6th	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	10.47 s
7th	Shinji Aoto	Japan	10.53 s
8th	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	10.54 s

Semifinals

Date: August 1, 1992

As in the quarter-finals, the first four runners made it to the next round, the final (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Leroy Burrell	United States	9.97 s
2	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.00 s
3	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.10 s
4th	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.23 s
5	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.30 s
6th	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.32 s
7th	Vitaly Sawin	EUN	10.33 s
8th	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.70 s

Run 2

Olympic Champion Linford Christie from Great Britain in 2009

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.17 s
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.21 s
3	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.28 s
4th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.33 s
5	Talal Mansour	Qatar	10.34 s
6th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.34 s
7th	Max Morinière	France	10.42 s
DNF	Mark Witherspoon	United States

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	9.96 s
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.02 s
3	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.04 s
4th	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.09 s
5	Leroy Burrell	United States	10.10 s
6th	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.12 s
7th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.22 s
8th	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.26 s

Date: August 1, 1992

Wind: +0.5 m / s

Two US-Americans and two Nigerians each qualified for the final from Jamaica, Canada, Namibia and Great Britain.

Carl Lewis , the American Olympic champion in 1984 and 1988 , was not there. Because of a virus infection, Lewis only competed in the long jump at the US Olympic eliminations. The real favorite was Lewis' compatriot Leroy Burrell, who had topped the world rankings in 1990 and 1991. Other medal candidates were the Briton Linford Christie, Burrell's compatriot Dennis Mitchell and Frank Fredericks from Namibia.

Ben Johnson, the Canadian doping offender who had lost his Olympic victory in 1988 to Carl Lewis for proven doping, was back again. But he only made it to the semi-finals, in which he was eliminated as the last of his run.

The finale began with a false start caused by Burrell. The second attempt at take-off was canceled by Dennis Mitchell, who felt disturbed in his take-off preparations. The third time it worked. Burrell, probably unsettled by his false start, couldn't get into gear and had nothing to do with the outcome of the race. Christie, by far the oldest finalist at 32, won the race ahead of Frank Fredericks from Namibia and Dennis Mitchell. The Canadian Bruny Surin was fourth, Leroy Burrell fifth ahead of the Nigerian Olapade Adeniken. Jamaican Raymond Stewart crossed the finish line in seventh place, followed by second Nigerian Davidson Ezinwa.

Frank Fredericks won the first Olympic medal for Namibia.

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed February 5, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 38f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018

Video

• Men's 100m final at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics , published November 26, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed February 5, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on February 5, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 38, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 38f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018
4. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 39, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 5, 2018