Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne, Australia
Dates	23 November (heats, quarterfinals) 24 November 1956 (semifinals, final)
Competitors	65 from 32 nations
Winning time	10.5 seconds
Medalists
Bobby Morrow   United States   Thane Baker   United States   Hec Hogan   Australia

Athletics at the 1956 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
20 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 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 and 24 November. The final was won by American Bobby Morrow. The competition took place in strong winds, with the final run into an approximately 5 m/s (11 mph) headwind.

Results

Final

The final was run into a negative 5.5m/s wind.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Time (automatic)
	Bobby Morrow	United States	10.5	10.62
	Thane Baker	United States	10.5	10.77
	Hec Hogan	Australia	10.6	10.77
4	Ira Murchison	United States	10.6	10.79
5	Manfred Germar	United Team of Germany	10.7	10.86
6	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.7	10.88

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	Ira Murchison	United States	10.67
2	Jan Jarzembowski	Poland	10.95
3	Hilmar Þorbjörnsson	Iceland	11.12
4	Mario Colarossi	Italy	11.14
5	René Ahumada	Mexico	11.26
6	Raja bin Ngah Ali	Malaya	11.41

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.98
2	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	11.01
3	Titus Erinle	Nigeria	11.09
4	Jorge de Barros	Brazil	11.15
5	Vanchak Voradilok	Thailand	11.78
6	Roba Negousse	Ethiopia	12.07

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Maurice Rae	New Zealand	10.84
2	Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	10.97
3	Manfred Steinbach	United Team of Germany	10.99
4	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	11.14
5	Evaristo Iglesias	Cuba	11.50

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ben Nduga	Uganda	10.88
2	Ken Box	Great Britain	10.96
3	Kyohei Ushio	Japan	11.09
4	Kesevan Soon	Singapore	11.35
5	Jack Parrington	Canada	11.62

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marian Foik	Poland	10.88
2	Boris Tokarev	Soviet Union	11.09
3	Franco Galbiati	Italy	11.13
4	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	11.30
5	Jalal Gozal	Indonesia	11.45
6	James Roberts	Liberia	11.45

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Manfred Germar	United Team of Germany	10.91
2	Ray Land	Australia	11.05
3	Keith Gardner	Jamaica	11.22
4	Alain David	France	11.24
5	Emmanuel Putu	Liberia	11.44
6	Beyene Legesse	Ethiopia	11.94

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Leonid Bartenev	Soviet Union	10.93
2	Béla Goldoványi	Hungary	11.02
3	Clive Bonas	Venezuela	11.17
4	Gavin Carragher	Australia	11.36
5	Thomas Obi	Nigeria	11.47
6	Bjørn Nilsen	Norway	11.58

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hec Hogan	Australia	10.72
2	René Bonino	France	10.96
3	Géza Varasdi	Hungary	11.00
4	Akira Kiyofuji	Japan	11.00

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Thane Baker	United States	10.93
2	Edmund Turton	Trinidad and Tobago	11.38
3	Sinnayah Karuppiah Jarabalan	Malaya	11.56
4	Tan Eng Yoon	Singapore	11.63

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Stan Levenson	Canada	10.94
2	Heinz Fütterer	United Team of Germany	11.10
3	João Pires Sobrinho	Brazil	11.14
4	Joe Goddard	Trinidad and Tobago	11.19
5	Oliver Hunter	British Guiana	11.22
6	Ghulam Raziq	Pakistan	11.26

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edward Ajado	Nigeria	11.01
2	Roy Sandstrom	Great Britain	11.05
3	Dick Harding	Canada	11.20
4	Muhammad Sharif Butt	Pakistan	11.26
5	Abebe Hailou	Ethiopia	11.54
6	Snay Wongchaoom	Thailand	11.95

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bobby Morrow	United States	10.90
2	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	11.04
3	David Segal	Great Britain	11.19
4	Phaibulya Vacharabhan	Thailand	11.27
5	Lee Kah Fook	Malaya	11.84

Quarterfinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bobby Morrow	United States	10.55	=OR
2	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.75
3	Maurice Rae	New Zealand	10.78
4	Béla Goldoványi	Hungary	10.95
5	Heinz Fütterer	United Team of Germany	10.99
6	Ray Land	Australia	11.15

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ira Murchison	United States	10.55	=OR
2	Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	10.78
3	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.93
4	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	10.96
5	Edmund Turton	Trinidad and Tobago	11.37
6	Ben Nduga	Uganda	12.95

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hec Hogan	Australia	10.78
2	Boris Tokarev	Soviet Union	10.87
3	Stan Levenson	Canada	10.93
4	Jan Jarzembowski	Poland	10.98
5	Edward Ajado	Nigeria	11.02
6	Ken Box	Great Britain	11.45

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Thane Baker	United States	10.62
2	Manfred Germar	Germany	10.80
3	Marian Foik	Poland	10.83
4	Leonid Bartenev	Soviet Union	10.84
5	René Bonino	France	10.96
6	Roy Sandstrom	Great Britain	11.03

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ira Murchison	United States	10.79
2	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.79
3	Manfred Germar	United Team of Germany	10.85
4	Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	10.93
5	Stan Levenson	Canada	10.94
6	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	11.11

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bobby Morrow	United States	10.52	=OR
2	Thane Baker	United States	10.61
3	Hec Hogan	Australia	10.62
4	Maurice Rae	New Zealand	10.68
5	Marian Foik	Poland	10.84
6	Boris Tokarev	Soviet Union	10.91

Key: =OR = Equalled Olympic record; DQ = Disqualified

References

• 1956 Summer Olympics results: Men's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-28.