1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	116 athletes from 76 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1996 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 27, 1996 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Donovan Bailey ( CAN )   Frank Fredericks ( NAM )   Ato Boldon ( TTO )

The men's 100-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26 and 27, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 116 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Canadian Donovan Bailey . He won in a new world record time ahead of Frank Fredericks from Namibia and Ato Boldon from Trinidad and Tobago.

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.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Linford Christie ( Great Britain )	9.96 s	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Donovan Bailey ( Canada )	9.97 s	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Linford Christie ( Great Britain )	10.14 s	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Glenroy Gilbert ( Canada )	10.21 s	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Obadele Thompson ( Barbados )	10.56 s	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Robson da Silva ( Brazil )	10.29 s	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Lin Wei ( People's Republic of China )	10.34 s	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Seun Ogunkoya ( Nigeria )	10.45 s	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Jone Delai ( Fiji )	10.63 s	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	9.85 s	Leroy Burrell ( USA )	Lausanne , Switzerland	July 6, 1994
Olympic record	9.92 s	Carl Lewis ( USA )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 24, 1988

Preliminary round

Date: July 26, 1996

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.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.15 s
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.18 s
3	Andrei Fedoriv	Russia	10.39 s
4th	Renward Wells	Bahamas	10.48 s
5	Chintaki de Zoysa	Sri Lanka	10.55 s
6th	Luís Cunha	Portugal	10.65 s
7th	Patrick Mocci-Raoumbé	Gabon	10.87 s
8th	Noureddine Ould Ménira	Mauritania	10.95 s
9	Bonifacio Edu	Equatorial Guinea	11.87 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.03 s
2	Jon Drummond	United States	10.08 s
3	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.41 s
4th	Leon Gordon	Jamaica	10.48 s
5	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.49 s
6th	Barnabé Jolicoeur	Mauritius	10.57 s
7th	Bimal Tarafdar	Bangladesh	10.98 s
8th	Abdul Ghafoor	Afghanistan	12.20 s
DNS	Andrew Tynes	Bahamas

Forward 3

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.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.06 s
2	Anninos Markoullidis	Cyprus	10.26 s
3	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.27 s
4th	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	10.34 s
5	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.38 s
6th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.38 s
7th	Jamal Abdullah Al-Saffar	Saudi Arabia	10.44 s
8th	Amarildo Almeida	Guinea-Bissau	10.85 s
9	Mohamed Bakar	Comoros	11.02 s

Forward 4

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.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.16 s
2	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.21 s
3	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	10.29 s
4th	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.33 s
5	Édson Ribeiro	Brazil	10.39 s
6th	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	10.39 s
7th	Patrik Strenius	Sweden	10.48 s
8th	Toluta'u Koula	Tonga	10.71 s
9	Vladislav Chernobai	Kyrgyzstan	10.88 s

Forward 5

Vitaly Medvedev was one of the first Kazakhstan athletes to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.34 s
2	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.34 s
3	Wenzhong Chen	People's Republic of China	10.37 s
4th	Manuel Borrega	Spain	10.52 s
5	Hiroyasu Tsuchie	Japan	10.58 s
6th	Rubén Benítez	El Salvador	10.74 s
7th	Vitaly Medvedev	Kazakhstan	10.90 s
8th	Mitchell Peters	American Virgin Islands	11.12 s
9	Boureima Kimba	Niger	11.24 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.24 s
2	Ian Mackie	Great Britain	10.27 s
3	Marc Blume	Germany	10.33 s
4th	Alexandros Terzian	Greece	10.48 s
5	Koukou Franck Amégnigan	Togo	10.51 s
6th	Rod Mapstone	Australia	10.56 s
7th	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	10.58 s
8th	Pa Modou Gai	Gambia	10.72 s
9	Jorge Castellón	Bolivia	10.74 s

Forward 7

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.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.33 s
2	Kostantyn Rurak	Ukraine	10.37 s
3	Pascal Théophile	France	10.41 s
4th	Carlos Gats	Argentina	10.57 s
5	Joel Mascoll	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	10.64 s
6th	Anvar Ko'chmurodov	Uzbekistan	10.71 s
7th	Arif Axundov	Azerbaijan	11.11 s
8th	Khaled Othman	Libya	11.65 s
9	Joean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	22.69 s

Forward 8

Odair Baia and his teammate Sortelina Pires were the first athletes from São Tomé and Príncipe to compete in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Marsh	United States	10.14 s
2	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.29 s
3	Kirk Cummins	Barbados	10.47 s
4th	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	10.49 s
5	Paul Henderson	Australia	10.52 s
6th	Adalberto Méndez	Dominican Republic	10.60 s
7th	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	10.62 s
8th	Mario Bonello	Malta	10.89 s
9	Odair Baia	Sao Tome and Principe	11.05 s

Forward 9

The Brazilian André da Silva reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there in fourth of his run

Robert Dennis from Liberia was eliminated in sixth place in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	André da Silva	Brazil	10.25 s
2	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.26 s
3	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	10.32 s
4th	Venancio José	Spain	10.34 s
5	Ahmed Douhou	Hong Kong	10.53 s
6th	Robert Dennis	Liberia	10.65 s
7th	Donald Onchiri	Kenya	10.66 s
8th	Jin Sun-kuk	South Korea	10.73 s
9	Peter Pulu	Papua New Guinea	10.76 s

Forward 10

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.26 s
2	Needy Guims	France	10.39 s
3	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.41 s
4th	Jone Delai	Fiji	10.42 s
5	Vitaly Sawin	Kazakhstan	10.52 s
6th	Watson Nyambek	Malaysia	10.55 s
7th	Neil Ryan	Ireland	10.78 s
8th	Javier Verne	Peru	10.91 s
9	Lâm Hải Vân	Vietnam	11.14 s

Forward 11

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.24 s
2	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.28 s
3	Peter Karlsson	Sweden	10.35 s
4th	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	10.39 s
5	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	10.42 s
6th	Charalambos papadias	Greece	10.46 s
7th	Hsin-Ping Huang	Chinese Taipei	10.70 s
8th	Eric Agueh	Benin	10.98 s
DNS	Alfayaya Embalo	Cape Verde

Forward 12

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.32 s
2	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	10.34 s
3	Alexandros Genovelis	Greece	10.39 s
4th	Frutos Feo	Spain	10.56 s
5	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	10.58 s
6th	Hamed Habib Sadeq	Kuwait	10.81 s
7th	DeVon Bean	Bermuda	10.89 s
8th	Robert Loua	Guinea	11.21 s
9	Mark Sherwin	Cook Islands	11.41 s

Quarter finals

Date: July 26, 1996

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

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	9.95 s
2	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.19 s
3	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.24 s
4th	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.26 s
5	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	10.28 s
6th	Marc Blume	Germany	10.33 s
7th	Andrei Fedoriv	Russia	10.34 s
8th	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	10.35 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.03 s
2	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.05 s
3	Jon Drummond	United States	10.17 s
4th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.18 s
5	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	10.37 s
6th	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	10.38 s
7th	Needy Guims	France	10.43 s
8th	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.43 s

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	9.93 s
2	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.08 s
3	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.14 s
4th	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.18 s
5	Peter Karlsson	Sweden	10.24 s
6th	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.27 s
7th	Wenzhong Chen	People's Republic of China	10.29 s
8th	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	10.38 s

Run 4

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

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.09 s
2	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.11 s
3	Anninos Markoullides	Cyprus	10.23 s
4th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.31 s
5	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.34 s
6th	Pascal Théophile	France	10.38 s
7th	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	10.38 s
8th	Kirk Cummins	Barbados	10.45 s

Run 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Marsh	United States	10.04 s
2	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.13 s
3	Ian Mackie	Great Britain	10.25 s
4th	André da Silva	Brazil	10.26 s
5	Alexandros Genovelis	Greece	10.31 s
6th	Venancio José	Spain	10.46 s
7th	Kostantyn Rurak	Ukraine	10.47s
8th	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	10.47 s

Semifinals

Date: July 27, 1996

The first four runners from the two semi-finals qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	9.94 s
2	Donovan Bailey	Canada	10.00 s
3	Michael Marsh	United States	10.08 s
4th	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.11 s
5	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.16 s
6th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.16 s
7th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	10.22 s
8th	Anninos Markoullides	Cyprus	10.36 s

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	9.93 s
2	Dennis Mitchell	United States	10.00 s
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.04 s
4th	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.04 s
5	Bruny Surin	Canada	10.13 s
6th	Jon Drummond	United States	10.16 s
7th	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.26 s
DNS	Ian Mackie	Great Britain	10.26 s

final

Olympic champion Donovan Bailey from Canada

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donovan Bailey	Canada	9.84 s	WR
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	9.89 s
3	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	9.90 s
4th	Dennis Mitchell	United States	9.99 s
5	Michael Marsh	United States	10.00 s
6th	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	10.14 s
7th	Michael Green	Jamaica	10.16 s
DSQ	Linford Christie	Great Britain

Date: July 27, 1996

Wind: +0.7 m / s

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

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed February 24, 2018
• Official report, part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , athletics results: p. 68f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 24, 2018

Video

• Men's 100m Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , posted June 20, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 24, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on February 24, 2018
2. ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Athletics results: p. 68, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 24, 2018 
3. ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Athletics results: p. 68f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 24, 2018 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Athletics results: p. 69, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 24, 2018