The German sprinter Marc Blume was eliminated in the quarter-finals, the Swiss Stefan Burkart in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
The sprinters competed in a total of twelve preliminary runs. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the four 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.
Together with his teammate Diane Francis, Kim Collins was the first athlete from the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts and Nevis to compete in the Olympic Games.
Mohamed Bakar, along with his teammates Hassan Abdou and Ahamada Haoulata, was one of the Comoros' first athletes at the Olympic Games.
Sergey Osovic was one of the first Ukrainian athletes to compete in the Summer Olympics.
Together with his teammate Maksim Smetanin, Vladislav Chernobaj was the first athlete from Kyrgyzstan to compete in the Olympic Games.
Obadele Thompson from Barbados made it to the semi-finals, where he was eliminated in sixth of his run
Arif Axundov was one of the first athletes from Azerbaijan , Anvar Koʻchmurodov from Uzbekistan and Kostjantyn Rurak from Ukraine to compete in the Summer Olympics.
The first three athletes from the five quarter-finals per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the fastest, the so-called lucky loser , made it through. The directly qualified sprinters are light blue, the lucky loser is highlighted in light green.
Run 1
The Japanese Nobuharu Asahara reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there in fifth of his run
Kim Collins from St. Kitts and Nevis - here in 2009 - was eliminated in the quarterfinals as fifth of his run
Silver medalist Frank Fredericks from Namibia
The British Olympic champion from 1992 Linford Christie - here in 2009 - was disqualified in the final after two false starts for which he was responsible
Two of the three Americans who competed had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Jamaica, Canada, Namibia, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago and Great Britain.
There were a few favorites for this competition. Among them were first and foremost the Canadian world champion from 1995 Donovan Bailey, the British Olympic champion from 1992 Linford Christie, who was also world champion in 1993 and European champion in 1994 , the vice world champion in 1995 Bruny Surin from Canada, the World Cup third Ato Bolden from Trinidad and Tobago and Frank Fredericks from Namibia, silver medalists from Barcelona . The US sprinters Michael Marsh and Dennis Mitchell were rather outsiders in this race.
The final started with three false starts. Two of them caused Christie, who was then disqualified according to the regulations. The fourth attempt was successful, but the athletes did not get off the blocks well for fear of another false start and the resulting exclusion from the blocks. The slowest reaction time was determined by Bailey, who then quickly left the field behind and became Olympic champion in a new world record time of 9.84 s. As in 1992, Frankie Fredericks came in second ahead of Ato Boldon, who was able to keep the two US athletes Dennis Mitchell and Mike Marsh at bay. Four sprinters undercut the 10-second mark.
After 68 years, Donovan Bailey was again a Canadian Olympic champion in this discipline.
literature
Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 28f