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The Olympic 100 m finals, particularly the men's, are among the most popular events from any sport at the Olympics – the 2012 Olympic men's 100 metres final was the most watched event at the London Games by British audiences (with 20 million television viewers) [134] while in the United States that event was the third-most viewed Olympic clip.
US Olympic Trials: Indianapolis, United States 200 m: 21.34 (+1.3 m/s) Florence Griffith Joyner United States September 29, 1988 Olympic Games: Seoul, South Korea 400 m: 48.70 Sanya Richards: Nike September 17, 2006 World Cup: Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece 800 m: 1:54.97 Athing Mu United States September 17, 2023 Prefontaine Classic
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
Jim Hines' October 1968 Olympic gold medal run was the fastest recorded fully electronic 100 metre race up to that date, at 9.95 seconds. [2] Track and Field News has compiled an unofficial list of automatically timed records starting with the 1964 Olympics and Bob Hayes' gold medal performance there. Those marks are included in the progression.
The men's 100 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July and 1 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. [1] 84 athletes were expected to compete; 27 nations used universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 56 qualifying through standard time or ranking (23 universality places were used in 2016).
Time Athlete Date Place Ref. Video Jamaica: 9.58 (+0.9 m/s) Usain Bolt: 16 August 2009: Berlin [1] United States: 9.69 (+2.0 m/s) Tyson Gay: 20 September 2009: Shanghai Kenya: 9.77 A (+1.2 m/s) Ferdinand Omanyala: 18 September 2021: Nairobi [2] Italy: 9.80 (+0.1 m/s) Marcell Jacobs: 1 August 2021: Tokyo [3] South Africa: 9.82 (+1.0 m/s) Akani ...
Jim Hines had a time of 9.9 seconds (hand-timed) or 9.95 seconds (auto-timed) in the final. This equalled the world record and set a new Olympic record, which were measured by hand-timing at that point. The 9.95 second time was recognized as the initial world record for electronic timed results when the IAAF changed its records rules in 1977.
The men's 100 meters at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea saw world champion Ben Johnson of Canada defeat defending Olympic champion Carl Lewis of the United States in a world record time of 9.79, breaking his own record of 9.83 that he had set at the 1987 World Championships in Rome.