Summer Olympics 2020 / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	?? Athletes from ?? Countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 1st to 2nd, 2020
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The men's 100-meter run at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held in the Olympic Stadium from August 1st to 2nd .

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Usain Bolt ( Jamaica )	9.81 s	Rio de Janeiro 2016
World Champion	Christian Coleman ( United States )	9.76 s	Doha 2019
European champion	Zharnel Hughes ( Great Britain )	9.95 s	Berlin 2018
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Tyquendo Tracey ( Jamaica )	10.03 s	Toronto 2018
South America champion	Rodrigo do Nascimento ( Brazil )	10.28 s	Lima 2019
Asian champion	Yoshihide Kiryū ( Japan )	10.10 s	Doha 2019
African champions			Algiers 2020
Oceania Champion	Edward Osei-Nketia ( New Zealand )	10.34 s	Townsville 2019

Existing records

World record	Usain Bolt ( Jamaica )	9.58 s	Final of Berlin , Germany	August 16, 2009
Olympic record		9.63 s	London finals , Great Britain	5th August 2012

Time schedule

All times refer to the local time in Tokyo ( GMT + 9 ).

Preliminary round	August 1st
Prelims	August 1st
Semifinals	August 2nd
final	August 2nd

Web links

• Athletics on the Tokyo 2020 website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 668 , accessed on September 29, 2018