Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	75 athletes from 61 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 4th, 2012 (preliminary round / preliminary round) August 5th, 2012 (semifinals / final)
Winning time	9.63 s
Medalist  Usain Bolt ( JAM )  Yohan Blake ( JAM )  Justin Gatlin ( USA )
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The men's 100-meter run at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 4th and 5th, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. 75 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Jamaican Usain Bolt . He won ahead of his compatriot Yohan Blake and the American Justin Gatlin .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Usain Bolt ( Jamaica )	9.69 s	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Yohan Blake ( Jamaica )	9.92 s	Daegu 2011
European champion	Christophe Lemaitre ( France )	10.09 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Keston Bledman ( Trinidad and Tobago )	10.05 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Nilson André ( Brazil )	10.35 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Su Bingtian ( People's Republic of China )	10.21 s	Kobe 2011
African champions	Simon Magakwe ( South Africa )	10.29 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Isaac Tatoa ( New Zealand )	10.65 s	Cairns 2012

Existing records

Olympic Champion:
Usain Bolt (JAM)

World record	Usain Bolt ( Jamaica )	9.58 s	Berlin , Germany	August 16, 2009
Olympic record		9.69 s	Beijing Final , People's Republic of China	August 16, 2008

doping

The American Tyson Gay crossed the finish line in fourth in 9.80 seconds. However, as a result of a positive doping test, all competition results since July 15, 2012 have been withdrawn from him. The main victims were the Norwegian Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, who would have reached the semi-finals in third place after Gay's disqualification in the first run, which Gay had initially finished as the winner. In addition, the Briton Adam Gemili could have participated in the final through his placement in the semifinals.

Qualification basics

Each NOK could nominate up to three athletes who ran the IAAF qualifying time of 10.18  seconds (A standard) in a competition held during the qualifying time. Should no athlete from a NOC achieve the A standard, the NOC concerned could nominate an athlete who had achieved the B standard of 10.24  seconds. Regardless of the running times, the NOKs whose athletes did not achieve the A or B standard could nominate an athlete. These athletes competed against each other in the 100-meter run in a preliminary round.

Preliminary round

The athletes competed in a total of four runs. The first two athletes per run qualified for the preliminary round. 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.

With 10.42 seconds, Gérard Kobéané from Burkina Faso ran the fastest time of all qualifying runs in race four. The slowest time that was enough to qualify for the heats was the 10.79 s of Azneem Ahmed ( Maldives ) in run three, which also set a new national record.

With 37-year-old Rachid Chouhal from Malta in run four, the oldest participant in the men's 100 meter competition started.

Note:
All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Run 1

Preparation for the start of the first run
v. r. to the left: da Costa, Rojas, da Silva, Siphonexay, Khan, Kimbembe, Lui

August 4, 2012, 10:00 a.m.
Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Arturo Rojas	Bolivia	10.62
2	Davilert Arsene Kimbembe	Republic of the Congo	10.68
3	Holder da Silva	Guinea-Bissau	10.69
4th	Joseph Andy Lui	Tonga	11.17
5	Mohan Khan	Bangladesh	11.25
6th	Kilakone Siphonexay	Laos	11.30
7th	Christopher da Costa	Sao Tome and Principe	11.56

Run 2

Start of the second run:
Lane 2 Bingangoye, Lane 3 Garstang, Lane 4 Lumain, Lane 5 Themes, Lane 6 Teltull, Lane 7 Noa, Lane 8 Ali

August 4, 2012, 10:08 a.m.
Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jurgen topics	Suriname	10.55
2	Fernando Lumain	Indonesia	10.80
3	Wilfried Bingangoye	Gabon	10.89
4th	Liagat Ali	Pakistan	10.90
5	Rodman Teltull	Palau	11.06
6th	Tavevele Noa	Tuvalu	11.55
7th	Timi Garstang	Marshall Islands	12.81

Run 3

August 4, 2012, 10:16 a.m.
Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Béranger bosses	Central African Republic	10.55
2	Yeo Gary	Singapore	10.57
3	Azneem Ahmed	Maldives	10.79	NO
4th	J'maal Alexander	British Virgin Islands	10.92
5	John Howard	Micronesia	11.05
6th	Chris Meke Walasi	Solomon Islands	11.42
7th	Elama Fa'atonu	American Samoa	11.48

Run 4

Start preparation for the fourth run
v. r. From left: Chouhal, Kobénané, Tuara, Tharu, Williams, Takooa, Coiffic, Azizi

August 4, 2012, 10:24 a.m.
Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Gérard Kobéané	Burkina Faso	10.42
2	Fabrice Coiffic	Mauritius	10.62
3	Courtney Carl Williams	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	10.80
4th	Rachid Chouhal	Malta	10.83
5	Tilak Ram Tharu	Nepal	10.85
6th	Massoud Azizi	Afghanistan	11.19
7th	Nooa Takooa	Kiribati	11.53
8th	Patrick Tuara	Cook Islands	11.72

Prelims

Seven preliminary runs were carried out. The first three athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the three 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.

Most of the favorites held back in the heats to save energy. The slowest time for qualifying for the semi-finals was 10.23 s.

With 9.88 s, Ryan Bailey from the USA ran the fastest time of all heats (lead three). In this preliminary run, two national records were also set. Ben Youssef Meïté ran a new record for the Ivory Coast with 10.06 s and Suwaibou Sanneh ran a new Gambian record with 10.21 s. Both athletes were able to qualify for the semi-finals with their performance.

Kim Collins , 2003 surprise world champion and flag bearer at the opening ceremony for St. Kitts and Nevis , has been banned from his association for leaving the Olympic village.

Forward 1

August 4, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	10.14
2	Gerald Phiri	Zambia	10.16
3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	10.28	actually qualified for the semi-finals
4th	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain	10.34
5	Jurgen topics	Suriname	10.53
6th	Isidro Montoya	Colombia	10.54
7th	Yeo Gary	Singapore	10.69
DOP	Tyson Gay	United States		in the semifinals, later disqualified

Forward 2

August 4, 2012, 12:38 p.m.
Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	9.97
2	Derrick Atkins	Bahamas	10.22
3	Sorrillo roundabout	Trinidad and Tobago	10.23
4th	Dariusz Kuć	Poland	10.24
5	Nilson André	Brazil	10.26
6th	Masashi Eriguchi	Japan	10.30
7th	Barakat al-Harthi	Oman	10.41
8th	Fernando Lumain	Indonesia	10.90

Forward 3

August 4, 2012, 12:46 p.m.
Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ryan Bailey	United States	9.88
2	Ben Youssef Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.06	NO
3	Justyn Warner	Canada	10.09
4th	Kemar Hyman	Cayman Islands	10.16
5	Suwaibou Sanneh	Gambia	10.21	NO
6th	Rytis Sakalauskas	Lithuania	10.29
7th	Béranger bosses	Central African Republic	10.55
8th	Arturo Rojas	Bolivia	10.65

Forward 4

August 4, 2012, 12:54 p.m.
Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	10.09
2	Daniel Bailey	Antigua and Barbuda	10.12
3	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.13
4th	Amru Seoud	Egypt	10.22
5	Jason Rogers	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.30
6th	Ogho-Oghene Egwero	Nigeria	10.38
7th	Holder da Silva	Guinea-Bissau	10.71
DNF	Idrissa Adam	Cameroon

Forward 5

August 4, 2012, 1:02 p.m.
Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	10.04
2	Adam Gemili	Great Britain	10.11
3	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	10.20
4th	Reza Ghasemi	Iran	10.31
5	Obinna Metu	Nigeria	10.35
6th	Ramon Gittens	Barbados	10.35
7th	Paul Williams	Grenada	10.65
8th	Devilert Arsene Kimbembe	Republic of the Congo	10.94

Forward 6

August 4, 2012, 1:10 p.m.
Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	10.00
2	Ryota Yamagata	Japan	10.07
3	Su Bingtian	People's Republic of China	10.19
4th	Antoine Adams	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.22
5	Peter Emelieze	Nigeria	10.22
6th	Jeremy Bascom	Guyana	10.31
7th	Marek Niit	Estonia	10.40
8th	Azneem Ahmed	Maldives	10.84

Forward 7

Dwain Chambers (GBR)

August 4, 2012, 1:18 p.m.
Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.02
2	Jimmy Vicaut	France	10.11
3	Keston Bledman	Trinidad and Tobago	10.13
4th	Warren Fraser	Bahamas	10.27
5	Miguel Lopez	Puerto Rico	10.31
6th	Gérard Kobéané	Burkina Faso	10.48
7th	Fabrice Coiffic	Mauritius	10.59

Semifinals

In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes qualified for the final. 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.

With 9.82 s, Justin Gatlin set the fastest time ever run in an Olympic semifinal in race one.

Seven of the eight runners qualified for the final achieved a time under 10 seconds. The 10.02 s by Richard Thompson was the slowest time, which was enough to qualify for the final.

In race one, two national records were broken. Churandy Martina ran a new Dutch record with 9.91 s and qualified for the final. Suwaibou Sanneh improved the Gambian record for the second time in this competition (10.18 s), but was eliminated. Kemar Hyman did not run in race three.

Run 1

Start of the first semi-final (from
top to bottom ): Martina, Sanneh, Powell, Vicaut, Meité, Gatlin, Bledman, Dasaolu

Start of the second semifinals (from
top to bottom ): Adams, Su, Bolt, Chambers, Daniel Bailey, Ryan Bailey, Thompson, Phiri

Start of the third semi-final (from
top to bottom ): Hyman, Sorrillo, Gay, Yamagata, Blake, Gemili, Atkins, Warner

August 5, 2012, 7.45 p.m.
Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	9.82
2	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	9.91	NO
3	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	9.94
4th	Keston Bledman	Trinidad and Tobago	10.04
5	Ben Youssef Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.13
6th	Jimmy Vicaut	France	10.16
7th	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	10.18
8th	Suwaibou Sanneh	Gambia	10.18	NO

Run 2

August 5, 2012, 7:53 p.m.
Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9.87
2	Ryan Bailey	United States	9.96
3	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	10.02
4th	Dwain Chambers	Great Britain	10.05
5	Gerald Phiri	Zambia	10.11
6th	Daniel Bailey	Antigua and Barbuda	10.16
7th	Antoine Adams	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.27
8th	Su Bingtian	People's Republic of China	10.28

Run 3

August 5, 2012, 8:01 p.m.
Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	9.85
3	Adam Gemili	Great Britain	10.06	actually qualified for the final
4th	Derrick Atkins	Bahamas	10.08
5	Justyn Warner	Canada	10.09
6th	Ryota Yamagata	Japan	10.10
7th	Sorrillo roundabout	Trinidad and Tobago	10.31
DNS	Kemar Hyman	Cayman Islands
DOP	Tyson Gay	United States		in the final, later disqualified

final

Start of the finals (from
top to bottom ): Thompson, Powell, Gay, Blake, Gatlin, Bolt, Ryan Bailey, Martina

August 5, 2012, 9:50 p.m.
Wind: +1.5 m / s

All three Americans and all three Jamaicans had qualified for the final. There was also one participant from the Netherlands and one from Trinidad and Tobago.

Usain Bolt, the winner of the Beijing Games and 2009 world champion , was a big favorite for the gold medal. His compatriot Yohan Blake, 2011 world champion , who beat Bolt in the Jamaican Olympic qualifications, was seen as his most dangerous competitor . US sprinters Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin were seen as the only athletes who could possibly challenge the Jamaicans for victory. Gay, double world champion in 2007 over 100 and 200 meters , had suffered from a hip injury for a long time. Gatlin, 2004 Olympic champion , was suspended for four years in 2006 for doping and did not return to competition until 2011.

An incident occurred shortly before the starting shot. A spectator threw a plastic beer bottle towards the starter. The Dutch judoka Edith Bosch , who happened to be standing next to him, held the perpetrator until the police could take him into custody. None of the starters had noticed anything about the incident.

The final was the fastest in Olympic history up to then. With the new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds, the winner Bolt achieved the second fastest time ever over 100 meters. For the first time, all medal winners stayed under 9.80 seconds, the top four under 9.90 seconds. Only Asafa Powell, who sustained an adductor injury at about fifty meters, needed more than 10 seconds for the distance.

After the Americans Carl Lewis ( 1984 / 1988 ) Usain Bolt was only the second athlete who was able to repeat his Olympic victory in the 100 meters. A third should be added in 2016 . For Jamaica it was the first double victory in this discipline.

Tyson Gay finished fourth in the final in 9.80 seconds. However, after he was convicted of doping in June 2013, all competition results since July 15, 2012 were revoked after the judgment in 2014.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	9.63	OR
2	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	9.75
3	Justin Gatlin	United States	9.79
4th	Ryan Bailey	United States	9.88
5	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	9.94
6th	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	9.98
7th	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	11.99
DOP	Tyson Gay	United States

• 

  Silver medal:
  Yohan Blake (JAM)
• 

  Bronze medal:
  Justin Gatlin (USA)
• 

  The Dutchman Churandy Martina finished fifth
• 

  Asafa Powell from Jamaica was Olympic seventh

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed September 9, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 9, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation , accessed on September 9, 2018

Video recordings

• Preliminary Round on youtube.com, published August 4, 2012, accessed September 9, 2018
• Prelims on youtube.com, published August 3, 2012, accessed September 9, 2018
• Semi-finals on youtube.com, published on August 5, 2012, accessed on September 9, 2018
• Finale on youtube.com, published on August 5, 2012, accessed on September 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on September 9, 2018
2. ↑ US relay has to return Olympic medals , Süddeutsche Zeitung May 13, 2015, accessed on September 9, 2018
3. ^ Report on Focus Online from August 4, 2012 , accessed on September 9, 2018
4. ↑ Doping affair in the team of US sprinter Justin Gatlin , Der Tagesspiegel December 19, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2018.
5. ↑ Report and video clip from SB Nation from August 5, 2012 , accessed on September 9, 2018.
6. ↑ US relay has to return Olympic medals , Süddeutsche Zeitung May 13, 2015, accessed on September 9, 2018