Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium Helsinki, Finland
Dates	20 July 1952 (heats, quarterfinals) 21 July 1952 (semifinals, final)
Competitors	72 from 34 nations
Winning time	10.4 seconds
Medalists
Lindy Remigino   United States   Herb McKenley   Jamaica   McDonald Bailey   Great Britain

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20 and 21 July. The final was won by American Lindy Remigino.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.79
	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.80
	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.83
4	Dean Smith	United States	10.84
5	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.88
6	John Treloar	Australia	10.91

Preliminaries

Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the twelve heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

  Advance on placement

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Treloar	Australia	10.92
2	Alan Lillington	Great Britain	11.06
3	Gabriel Lareya	Gold Coast	11.18
4	Miroslav Horčic	Czechoslovakia	11.23
5	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	11.40
6	Youssef Ali Omar	Egypt	11.53
7	José Julio Barillas	Guatemala	11.56

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Étienne Bally	France	10.97
2	Angel Kolev	Bulgaria	11.01
3	Paul Dolan	Ireland	11.12
4	Raúl Mazorra	Cuba	11.19
5	Robert Hutchinson	Canada	11.26
6	Masaji Tajima	Japan	11.29
7	Adulya Vanastit	Thailand	11.61

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.65
2	Carlo Vittori	Italy	10.98
3	Mikhail Kazantsev	Soviet Union	11.16
4	Hörður Haraldsson	Iceland	11.31
5	Javier Souza	Mexico	11.32
6	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	11.33

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Jack	Great Britain	11.05
2	Romeo Galán	Argentina	11.11
3	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	11.13
4	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt	11.40
5	Guillermo Gutiérrez	Venezuela	11.42
6	Boonterm Pakpuang	Thailand	11.85

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.88
2	György Csányi	Hungary	11.09
3	Emil Kiszka	Poland	11.13
4	Pauli Tavisalo	Finland	11.30
5	Tomás Paquete	Portugal	11.45
6	Walter Sutton	Canada	11.45

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Tabak	Israel	11.12
2	Tomio Hosoda	Japan	11.14
3	Willy Schneider	Switzerland	11.22
4	Angel Gavrilov	Bulgaria	11.29
5	Juan Leiva	Venezuela	11.31

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.93
2	Theo Saat	Netherlands	11.02
3	Muhammad Sharif Butt	Pakistan	11.17
4	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	11.36
5	George Acquaah	Gold Coast	11.47
6	Mariano Acosta	Argentina	11.58
7	Wolfgango Montanari	Italy	12.25

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	10.93
2	Byron LaBeach	Jamaica	11.09
3	Franco Leccese	Italy	11.18
4	Issi Baran	Finland	11.32
5	Fritz Griesser	Switzerland	11.54

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Werner Zandt	Germany	11.03
2	Muhammad Aslam	Pakistan	11.18
3	Don McFarlane	Canada	11.25
4	Zdeněk Pospíšil	Czechoslovakia	11.25
5	Edward Ajado	Nigeria	11.25
6	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	11.51
-	Enrique Beckles	Argentina		DQ

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Art Bragg	United States	10.73
2	Hans Wehrli	Switzerland	11.00
3	Titus Erinle	Nigeria	11.12
4	László Zarándi	Hungary	11.26
5	Pétur Sigurðsson	Iceland	11.55
6	Aroon Sankosik	Thailand	11.76

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.73
2	Lavy Pinto	India	11.00
3	René Bonino	France	11.00
4	František Brož	Czechoslovakia	11.32
5	Abdul Aziz	Pakistan	11.48
6	Rui Maia	Portugal	11.79

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dean Smith	United States	10.90
2	Alain Porthault	France	11.04
3	Erich Fuchs	Hungary	11.19
4	Karim Olowu	Netherlands	11.27

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.73
2	John Treloar	Australia	10.84
3	Alain Porthault	France	10.99
4	Muhammad Aslam	Pakistan	11.02
5	Byron LaBeach	Jamaica	11.05
-	Angel Kolev	Bulgaria		DQ

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.68
2	Theo Saat	Netherlands	10.93
3	Lavy Pinto	India	10.98
4	Étienne Bally	France	10.98
5	Hans Wehrli	Switzerland	11.05
6	Alan Lillington	Great Britain	11.26

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dean Smith	United States	10.69
2	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	10.90
3	William Jack	Great Britain	10.94
4	Werner Zandt	Germany	10.98
5	Romeo Galán	Argentina	11.08
6	David Tabak	Israel	11.10

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.72
2	Art Bragg	United States	10.75
3	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.92
4	Tomio Hosoda	Japan	11.03
5	György Csányi	Hungary	11.07
6	Carlo Vittori	Italy	11.79

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	10.74
2	Dean Smith	United States	10.78
3	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	10.86
4	Lavy Pinto	India	10.94
5	Alain Porthault	France	11.04
6	Art Bragg	United States	11.43

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	10.74
2	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.74
3	John Treloar	Australia	10.76
4	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	10.92
5	William Jack	Great Britain	11.01
6	Theo Saat	Netherlands	11.12

Key: DQ = Disqualified

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Men's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-28.