2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	82 athletes from 62 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21, 2004 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) August 22, 2004 (semi-finals / final)
Winning time	9.85 s
Medalist  Justin Gatlin ( USA )  Francis Obikwelu ( POR )  Maurice Greene ( USA )
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The men's 100-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 21 and 22, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 82 athletes took part.

The American Justin Gatlin became Olympic champion . He won before the Portuguese Francis Obikwelu and the American Maurice Greene .

The German sprinter Alexander Kosenkow was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Maurice Greene ( USA )	9.87 s	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Kim Collins ( St. Kitts and Nevis )	10.07 s	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Francis Obikwelu ( Portugal )	10.06 s	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Michael Frater ( Jamaica )	10.21 s	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Kim Collins ( St. Kitts and Nevis )	10.13 s	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Édson Ribeiro ( Brazil )	10.30 s	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Chen Haijian ( People's Republic of China )	10.25 s	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Olusoji Fasuba ( Nigeria )	10.21 s	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Peter Pulu ( Papua New Guinea )	10.66 s	Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	9.78 s	Tim Montgomery ( USA )	Paris , France	September 14, 2002
Olympic record	9.84 s	Donovan Bailey ( Canada )	Atlanta Final , USA	July 27, 1996

Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

Preliminary round

A total of ten preliminary runs were completed. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the ten fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified sprinters are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

The Briton Darren Campbell did not reach the next round as fourth of his prelim

Yazaldes Nascimento from São Tomé and Príncipe - starting for Portugal in this photo - was eliminated as eighth of his heat

August 21, 2004, 10:35 a.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.12
2	Uchenna Emedolu	Nigeria	10.22
3	Shingo Suetsugu	Japan	10.27
4th	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	10.35
5	Chen Haijian	People's Republic of China	10.45
6th	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	10.54
7th	Poh Seng Song	Singapore	10.75
8th	Yazaldes Nascimento	Sao Tome and Principe	11.00
9	Mario Bonello	Malta	11.06

Forward 2

August 21, 2004, 10:42 am

Wind: −0.4 m / s
Kakianoko Nariki was the first athlete to take part in the Olympic Games for Kiribati.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.13
2	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	10.19
3	Roland Németh	Hungary	10.28
4th	Salem Al-Yami	Saudi Arabia	10.36
5	Darren Gilford	Malta	10.67
6th	Khalil Al-Hanahneh	Jordan	10.76
7th	Kakianoko Nariki	Kiribati	11.62
DSQ	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago		disqualified according to IAAF rule 162.7, false start

Forward 3

August 21, 2004, 10:52 am

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	10.07
2	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.15
3	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.21
4th	Vicente de Lima	Brazil	10.23
5	Andrei Yepishin	Russia	10.29
6th	Georgios Theodoridis	Greece	10.32
7th	Hadhari Djaffar	Comoros	10.62
8th	Sultan Saeed	Maldives	11.72
DNF	Juan Sainfleur	Dominican Republic

Forward 4

August 21, 2004, 10:59 am

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	10.02
2	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.08
3	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.15	NO
4th	Idrissa Sanou	Burkina Faso	10.33
5	Diego Ferreira	Paraguay	10.50	NO
6th	Pierre de Windt	Aruba	11.02
7th	Chaleunsouk Oudomphanh	Laos	11.30
8th	Massoud Azizi	Afghanistan	11.66
DNS	Christoforos Hoidis	Greece

Forward 5

Nabie Foday Fofanah from Guinea was eliminated as seventh in his preliminary run

August 21, 2004, 11:06 am

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	10.09
2	Ronald Pognon	France	10.18
3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Gambia	10.26	NO
4th	Jarbas mascarenhas	Brazil	10.34
5	Hiroyasu Tsuchie	Japan	10.37
6th	Adrian Durant	American Virgin Islands	10.52
7th	Nabie Foday Fofanah	Guinea	10.62
8th	Harmon Harmon	Cook Islands	11.22

Forward 6

August 21, 2004, 11:13 a.m.

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.33
2	Łukasz Chyła	Poland	10.35
3	Eric Pacôme N'Dri	Ivory Coast	10.39
4th	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	10.41
5	Issa-Aimé Nthépé	France	10.67
6th	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	10.68
7th	John Howard	Micronesia	10.85	NO
8th	Mohammad Shamsuddin	Bangladesh	11.13

Forward 7

August 21, 2004, 11:20 a.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	10.06
2	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.15
3	Joshua Ross	Australia	10.24
4th	André da Silva	Brazil	10.28
5	Pierre Browne	Canada	10.32
6th	Lamin Tucker	Sierra Leone	10.72
7th	Kelsey Nakanelua	American Samoa	11.25
8th	Sopheak Phouk	Cambodia	11.56
DNS	Djikoloum Mobele	Chad

Forward 8

August 21, 2004, 11:27 a.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Maurice Greene	United States	10.18
2	Dwight Thomas	Jamaica	10.21
3	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles	10.23
4th	Alexander Kosenkow	Germany	10.28
5	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	10.50
6th	Chang Wai Hung	Hong Kong	10.70
7th	Francis Manioru	Solomon Islands	11.05
8th	Teimur Gasimov	Azerbaijan	11.17
9	Filipo Muller	Tonga	11.18

Forward 9

Daniel Bailey from Antigua and Barbuda was eliminated in sixth place in his preliminary run

August 21, 2004, 11:34 am

Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.39
2	Nicolas Macrozonaris	Canada	10.40
3	Gennadij Chernovol	Kazakhstan	10.43
4th	Souhalia Alamou	Benin	10.48
5	Christoffel van Wyk	Namibia	10.49
6th	Daniel Bailey	Antigua and Barbuda	10.51
7th	Gian Nicola Berardi	San Marino	10.76
8th	Carlos Abaunza	Nicaragua	11.17

Forward 10

August 21, 2004, 11:41 am

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.11
2	Michael Frater	Jamaica	10.20
3	Niconnor Alexander	Trinidad and Tobago	10.22
4th	Simone Collio	Italy	10.27
5	Eddy De Lépine	France	10.27
6th	Xavier James	Bermuda	10.40
7th	Sébastien Gattuso	Monaco	10.58	NO
8th	Wilfried Bingangoye	Gabon	10.76

Quarter finals

In each of the five quarter-finals, the first three athletes qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the fastest, the so-called lucky loser , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky loser in light green.

Run 1

August 21, 2004, 7:40 p.m.

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	9.93	NO
2	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.12
3	Dwight Thomas	Jamaica	10.12
4th	Ronald Pognon	France	10.15
5	Shingo Suetsugu	Japan	10.19
6th	Pierre Browne	Canada	10.21
7th	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles	10.24
8th	André da Silva	Brazil	10.34

Run 2

August 21, 2004, 7:47 pm

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	9.89
2	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.12
3	Vicente de Lima	Brazil	10.26
4th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	10.26
5	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	10.26
6th	Nicolas Macrozonaris	Canada	10.28
7th	Gennadij Chernovol	Kazakhstan	10.42
8th	Idrissa Sanou	Burkina Faso	10.43

Run 3

August 21, 2004, 7:54 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	9.96
2	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.15
3	Uchenna Emedolu	Nigeria	10.15
4th	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	10.24
5	Georgios Theodoridis	Greece	10.36
6th	Roland Németh	Hungary	10.38
7th	Niconnor Alexander	Trinidad and Tobago	10.48
DNS	Eddy De Lépine	France

Run 4

August 21, 2004, 8:01 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	10.02
2	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.05
3	Michael Frater	Jamaica	10.11
4th	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	10.17
5	Joshua Ross	Australia	10.22
6th	Alexander Kosenkow	Germany	10.24
7th	Andrei Yepishin	Russia	10.29
8th	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Gambia	10.39

Run 5

August 21, 2004, 8:08 pm

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Maurice Greene	United States	9.93
2	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	9.99
3	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.18
4th	Łukasz Chyła	Poland	10.23
5	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	10.24
6th	Simone Collio	Italy	10.29
7th	Jarbas mascarenhas	Brazil	10.30
8th	Eric Pacôme N'Dri	Ivory Coast	10.32

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  The Japanese Shingo Suetsugu was eliminated in fifth place in his quarter-finals

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  Churandy Martina from Antigua and Barbuda reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there as seventh of his run

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  The Brazilian André da Silva was eighth of his quarter-finals and did not reach the semi-finals

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  The Slovenian Matic Osovnikar was eliminated fourth in his quarter-finals

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  The Japanese Nobuharu Asahara reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there in fourth of his run

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  Frank Fredericks of Namibia finished fourth in his quarter-finals and did not reach the next round

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  Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, Gambia finished eighth in his quarter-finals and was eliminated

Semifinals

The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 22, 2004, 8:55 pm

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	10.07
2	Justin Gatlin	United States	10.09
3	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	10.11
4th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.22
5	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	10.28
6th	Michael Frater	Jamaica	10.29
7th	Ronald Pognon	France	10.32
8th	Uchenna Emedolu	Nigeria	10.35

Run 2

August 22, 2004, 9:03 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	9.95
2	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	9.97
3	Maurice Greene	United States	9.97
4th	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.02
5	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	10.12
6th	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	10.22
7th	Dwight Thomas	Jamaica	10.28
8th	Vicente de Lima	Brazil	10.28

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  The Briton Mark Lewis-Francis made it to the semifinals and was eliminated there in fifth of his run

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  Michael Frater from Jamaica was eliminated in sixth place in his semi-final run

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  The Frenchman Ronald Pognon finished seventh in his semi-final race and was eliminated

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  The Jamaican Dwight Thomas was eliminated as the barrel sieve in his semi-finals

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	9.85
2	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	9.86	HE
3	Maurice Greene	United States	9.87
4th	Shawn Crawford	United States	9.89
5	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	9.94
6th	Kim Collins	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.00
7th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	10.10
DNF	Aziz Zakari	Ghana

August 22, 2004, 11:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

All three Americans had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Barbados, Ghana, Jamaica, Portugal and St. Kitts and Nevis.

The Olympic champion from Sydney Maurice Greene from the United States met the reigning world champion Kim Collins from St. Kitts and Nevis and the reigning European champion , the Nigerian-born Francis Obikwelu, who started for Portugal. Jamaican Asafa Powell was one of the favorites.

The final race saw the closest decision in Olympic history to date. The runners all got off their starting blocks well and the field was extremely close. Nobody could break away and finally the US sprinter Justin Gatlin became Olympic champion in 9.85 s. He was a hundredth of a second ahead of Obikwelu, who was a hundredth of a second ahead of Greene. Another two hundredths of a second behind was the third US finalist Shawn Crawford and five hundredths of a second after Crawford the Jamaican Asafa Powell crossed the finish line in fifth. World champion Kim Collins was sixth with exactly 10.00 s.

In the 25th Olympic final, Justin Gatlin won the 16th gold medal for the USA in this discipline.

Francis Obikwelu won Portugal's first Olympic medal over 100 meters .

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  Olympic champion Justin Gatlin from the USA

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  Silver medalist Francis Obikwelu, Portugal

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  Bronze medalist Maurice Greene, USA

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  American Olympic gold medalist Shawn Crawford

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  The Jamaican Asafa Powell finished fifth in the final

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  World champion Kim Collins from St. Kitts and Nevis was sixth in the Olympics

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  Obadele Thompson from Barbados came in seventh in the final

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed April 19, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 19, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 19, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics Men's 100m , posted December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed April 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on April 19, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on April 19, 2018