Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
De Grasse, Bolt and Vicaut cross the finish line during the final of the Men's 100 metres
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	13 August 2016 (Preliminary round & heats) 14 August 2016 (semi-final & final)[1]
Competitors	84 from 57 nations
Winning time	9.81
Medalists
Usain Bolt   Jamaica   Justin Gatlin   United States   Andre De Grasse   Canada

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of athletes
Qualification
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4 × 100 m relay		men		women
4 × 400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 100 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 13–14 August at the Olympic Stadium.^[1]

Summary

Usain Bolt of Jamaica entered as the world record holder, 2012 Olympic champion and the 2015 World Champion. Looking to become the first man to win three Olympic 100 m titles, he was unbeaten and ranked fourth for the season with 9.88 seconds, though injury affected his early season. The 2015 World runner-up and American champion Justin Gatlin was also unbeaten that year and held the fastest time at 9.80, though he too had had an injury in the buildup. Trayvon Bromell (the third man on the 2015 podium) was the second fastest man of the season, while France's Jimmy Vicaut had twice run under 9.9 seconds, but had been beaten at the 2016 European Championships. The 2012 Olympic silver medallist and second fastest man ever Yohan Blake entered for Jamaica, but had not shown strong form since that year.^[2][3]

Hassan Saaid of the Maldives and Rodman Teltull of Palau were the fastest to progress from the preliminary round, both managing under 10.6 seconds.^[4] Siueni Filimone qualified but pulled a hamstring at the finish and was unable to compete in the next round. Gatlin was the fastest in the heats at 10.01, followed by Ivorian Ben Youssef Meité, Andre De Grasse of Canada, then Bolt. China's Xie Zhenye was the fifth heat winner under 10.1 seconds, setting a personal best. Vicaut narrowly progressed as a fastest non-qualifier. The most prominent casualties were European champion Churandy Martina, sub-10 Canadian Aaron Brown and sixth-ranked Qatari Femi Ogunode.^[5] Keston Bledman, a sub-10 performer was edged out for the final qualifying position by Cejhae Greene, both athletes recording the same time 10.20 rounded to the hundredth.^[6]

At the start of the final, the inner lanes got the best start, Trayvon Bromell and Justin Gatlin slightly ahead of Akani Simbine. In lane 6, Bolt came up almost even with Jimmy Vicaut. Trailing the field was Yohan Blake behind Ben Youssef Meïté to his inside. By the middle of the race, Gatlin was starting to create a gap while Bolt was starting to come back at him and moving away from DeGrasse and Vicaut in the second group. With 60 meters gone, Bolt had closed the gap to a few meters from Gatlin and by 70 meters was ahead of the field. This lead grew by several meters in the final 20 meters and Bolt crossed the line in a winning time of 9.81 seconds, to complete a Hat-Trick of 100m titles. Bolt's training partner, Blake had started slowly but was in full gear by the half way stage and had made a serious challenge at the field, however Blake's late rush wasn't quite enough, as DeGrasse took 3rd place, for the bronze.^[7] Gatlin finished second, behind Bolt.

Usain Bolt's win broke 2 records; becoming the first person to win the 100 meter race 3 times and also to medal 3 times in the 100 meter race. Previously, only Carl Lewis had won two gold medals in the 100m, a feat which Bolt had matched at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. However, several milliseconds later, Gatlin, also having a place on the podium, joined him in winning three 100m medals; one gold, one silver (for this race), and one bronze, which itself made Gatlin the first man in history to win each medal in the 100 meters.^[8]

Gatlin also became the holder of the record for the longest time between their first medal and last medal in the 100m, in terms of years. His first being his gold won at the 2004 Summer Olympics and his silver medal, 12 years later in this race.

The following evening the medals were presented by Valeriy Borzov, IOC member, Ukraine and Sebastian Coe, President of the IAAF.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	9.58	Berlin, Germany	16 August 2009
Olympic record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	9.63	London, United Kingdom	5 August 2012

Area
	Time (s)	Wind	Athlete	Nation
Africa (records)	9.85	+1.7	Olusoji Fasuba	Nigeria
Asia (records)	9.91	+1.8	Femi Ogunode	Qatar
	9.91	+0.6
Europe (records)	9.86	+0.6	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal
	9.86	+1.3	Jimmy Vicaut	France
	9.86	+1.8
North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	9.58 WR	+0.9	Usain Bolt	Jamaica
Oceania (records)	9.93	+1.8	Patrick Johnson	Australia
South America (records)	10.00^[A]	+1.6	Robson da Silva	Brazil

The following national records were established during the competition:

Country	Athlete	Round	Time	Notes
Ivory Coast	Ben Youssef Meïté (CIV)	Semifinals	9.97 s
Ivory Coast	Ben Youssef Meïté (CIV)	Final	9.96 s

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 13 August 2016	09:30 12:00	Preliminaries Round 1
Sunday, 14 August 2016	21:00 22:25	Semifinals Final

Results

Preliminaries

The preliminary round featured athletes invited to compete who had not achieved the required qualifying standard. Athletes who had achieved the standard received a bye into the first round proper. Qualification rules: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to Round 1.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Riste Pandev	Macedonia	0.145	10.72	Q, SB
2	8	Sudirman Hadi	Indonesia	0.136	10.77	Q
3	4	Mohammed Abukhousa	Palestine	0.176	10.82	q
4	5	Holder da Silva	Guinea-Bissau	0.165	10.97
5	6	Wilfried Bingangoye	Gabon	0.145	11.03
6	2	Mohamed Lamine Dansoko	Guinea	0.145	11.05
7	7	Abdul Wahab Zahiri	Afghanistan	0.170	11.56
8	3	Richson Simeon	Marshall Islands	0.136	11.81	SB
				Wind: −0.2 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	2	Hassan Saaid	Maldives	0.130	10.43	Q
2	6	Siueni Filimone	Tonga	0.155	10.76	Q, SB
3	7	Luke Bezzina	Malta	0.167	11.04
4	5	Masbah Ahmmed	Bangladesh	0.137	11.34
5	4	Isaac Silafau	American Samoa	0.141	11.51
6	8	John Ruuka	Kiribati	0.178	11.65
7	3	Hermenegildo Leite	Angola	0.145	11.65
				Wind: +0.4 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	7	Rodman Teltull	Palau	0.135	10.53	Q
2	6	Jin Wei Timothee Yap	Singapore	0.140	10.84	Q
3	3	Mohamed Fakhri Ismail	Brunei	0.163	10.92	q
4	4	Ishmail Kamara	Sierra Leone	0.146	10.95
5	5	Kitson Kapiriel	Micronesia	0.159	11.42
6	2	Jidou El Moctar	Mauritania	0.157	11.44
7	8	Etimoni Timuani	Tuvalu	0.143	11.81
				Wind: −0.3 m/s

Round 1

Qualification rules: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	3	Kemarley Brown	Bahrain	0.146	10.13	Q
2	5	Chijindu Ujah	Great Britain	0.150	10.13	Q
3	7	Marvin Bracy	United States	0.155	10.16	q
4	2	Seye Ogunlewe	Nigeria	0.139	10.26
5	1	Femi Ogunode	Qatar	0.170	10.28
6	8	Sean Safo-Antwi	Ghana	0.145	10.43
7	9	Reza Ghasemi	Iran	0.150	10.47
8	6	Adrian Griffith	Bahamas	0.143	10.53
9	4	Mohamed Fakhri Ismail	Brunei	0.151	10.95
				Wind: −1.2 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	8	Justin Gatlin	United States	0.160	10.01	Q
2	7	Daniel Bailey	Antigua and Barbuda	0.153	10.20	Q
3	1	Rondel Sorrillo	Trinidad and Tobago	0.112	10.23
4	5	Gerald Phiri	Zambia	0.146	10.27
5	9	Lucas Jakubczyk	Germany	0.166	10.29
6	6	Ogho-Oghene Egwero	Nigeria	0.151	10.37
7	3	Hua Wilfried Koffi	Ivory Coast	0.166	10.37
8	2	Rodman Teltull	Palau	0.133	10.64
9	4	Riste Pandev	Macedonia	0.163	10.71	SB
				Wind: +0.8 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Xie Zhenye	China	0.143	10.08	Q, PB
2	3	Nickel Ashmeade	Jamaica	0.132	10.13	Q
3	6	Hassan Taftian	Iran	0.150	10.17	q
4	2	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.151	10.18	q
5	4	Abdullah Abkar Mohammed	Saudi Arabia	0.154	10.26
6	7	Aziz Ouhadi	Morocco	0.158	10.34
7	9	Kemar Hyman	Cayman Islands	0.160	10.34
8	8	Darrell Wesh	Haiti	0.138	10.39
				Wind: −0.1 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	3	Andre De Grasse	Canada	0.148	10.04	Q
2	9	Aska Cambridge	Japan	0.137	10.13	Q
3	2	Su Bingtian	China	0.146	10.17	q
4	1	Jimmy Vicaut	France	0.164	10.19	q
5	7	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	0.142	10.22
6	5	Emmanuel Matadi	Liberia	0.146	10.31
7	8	Julian Reus	Germany	0.135	10.34
8	6	Jamial Rolle	Bahamas	0.145	10.68
9	4	Sudirman Hadi	Indonesia	0.122	10.70
				Wind: −0.5 m/s

Heat 5

Heat 5 finish

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	9	Ben Youssef Meïté	Ivory Coast	0.145	10.03	Q
2	5	Trayvon Bromell	United States	0.165	10.13	Q
3	4	Christophe Lemaitre	France	0.150	10.16	q
4	7	Cejhae Greene	Antigua and Barbuda	0.156	10.20	q
5	8	Keston Bledman	Trinidad and Tobago	0.150	10.20
6	1	Akeem Haynes	Canada	0.123	10.22
7	6	Gabriel Mvumvure	Zimbabwe	0.131	10.28
8	2	Hassan Saaid	Maldives	0.135	10.47
–	3	Siueni Filimone	Tonga	N/A	DNS
				Wind: +0.2 m/s

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	0.154	10.11	Q
2	8	Jak Ali Harvey	Turkey	0.159	10.14	Q
3	9	Barakat Mubarak Al-Harthi	Oman	0.155	10.22
4	2	Mosito Lehata	Lesotho	0.151	10.25
5	6	James Ellington	Great Britain	0.145	10.29
6	3	Henricho Bruintjies	South Africa	0.107	10.33
7	5	Zhang Peimeng	China	0.121	10.36
8	7	Antoine Adams	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.149	10.39
				Wind: −0.8 m/s

Heat 7

Heat 7 finish

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	0.156	10.07	Q
2	3	Andrew Fisher	Bahrain	0.134	10.12	Q
3	7	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	0.171	10.18	q
4	9	Yoshihide Kiryu	Japan	0.150	10.23
5	2	Shavez Hart	Bahamas	0.139	10.28	SB
6	5	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	0.130	10.29
7	8	Jahvid Best	Saint Lucia	0.147	10.39
8	1	Jurgen Themen	Suriname	0.139	10.47
9	4	Jin Wei Timothee Yap	Singapore	0.149	10.79
				Wind: −0.4 m/s

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	4	Akani Simbine	South Africa	0.124	10.14	Q
2	1	Ryota Yamagata	Japan	0.111	10.20	Q
3	7	Aaron Brown	Canada	0.135	10.24
4	9	Ramon Gittens	Barbados	0.162	10.25
5	2	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	0.127	10.36
	5	Vitor Hugo dos Santos	Brazil	0.157
7	6	Kim Kuk-young	South Korea	0.135	10.37
8	3	Brijesh Lawrence	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.163	10.55
9	8	Mohammed Abukhousa	Palestine	0.153	11.89
				Wind: −1.3 m/s

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	3	Jimmy Vicaut	France	0.131	9.95	Q
2	7	Ben Youssef Meïté	Ivory Coast	0.142	9.97	Q, NR
3	5	Akani Simbine	South Africa	0.144	9.98	q
4	9	Jak Ali Harvey	Turkey	0.148	10.03
5	4	Nickel Ashmeade	Jamaica	0.118	10.05
6	8	Marvin Bracy	United States	0.152	10.08
7	6	Xie Zhenye	China	0.134	10.11
8	2	Hassan Taftian	Iran	0.136	10.23
				Wind: +0.2 m/s

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	0.143	9.86	Q, SB
2	5	Andre De Grasse	Canada	0.130	9.92	Q, PB
3	9	Trayvon Bromell	United States	0.128	10.01	q
4	7	Chijindu Ujah	Great Britain	0.160	10.01	SB
5	8	Ryota Yamagata	Japan	0.109	10.05	PB
6	3	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.138	10.12
7	2	Cejhae Greene	Antigua and Barbuda	0.143	10.13
–	4	Andrew Fisher	Bahrain	N/A	DQ	R162.7
				Wind: +0.2 m/s

Semifinal 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Justin Gatlin	United States	0.151	9.94	Q
2	4	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	0.147	10.01	Q
3	9	Christophe Lemaitre	France	0.122	10.07	SB
4	3	Su Bingtian	China	0.140	10.08	SB
5	5	Kemarley Brown	Bahrain	0.152	10.13
6	2	James Dasaolu	Great Britain	0.145	10.16
7	7	Asuka Cambridge	Japan	0.135	10.17
–	8	Daniel Bailey	Antigua and Barbuda	N/A	DNS
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Time	Notes
	6	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	0.155	9.81	SB
	4	Justin Gatlin	United States	0.152	9.89
	7	Andre De Grasse	Canada	0.141	9.91	PB
4	9	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	0.145	9.93	SB
5	3	Akani Simbine	South Africa	0.128	9.94
6	8	Ben Youssef Meïté	Ivory Coast	0.156	9.96	NR
7	5	Jimmy Vicaut	France	0.140	10.04
8	2	Trayvon Bromell	United States	0.135	10.06
				Wind: +0.2 m/s

References

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2. Landells, Steve (10 August 2016). Preview: men's 100m – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 13 August 2016.
3. senior outdoor 2016 100 Metres men. IAAF. Retrieved on 13 August 2016.
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6. "Usain Bolt wins third straight 100m Olympic final – as it happened". Guardian. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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External links

Rio Replay: Men's 100m Final on YouTube