Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue |
Stadio Olimpico Rome, Italy | ||||||||||||
Dates |
31 August (heats, quarterfinals) 1 September 1960 (semifinals, final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 65 from 48 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 10.2 seconds | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | |
800 m | men | women |
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 | |
These are the official results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. The competition was held at the Olympic Stadium on 31 August and 1 September. Sixty-five competitors from 48 nations entered, but 61 competitors from 46 nations participated.[1]
Summary
Since winning the 1958 European Championship, Armin Hary was a known commodity. His incredible reaction time supposedly had been clocked using high speed cameras at .03 of a second,[2] while normal humans react from .15 upward. Some of his competitors thought he was using some sort of trickery.
The starter at the final called three false starts, one being allowed in this era, one of them against Hary. Along with Enrique Figuerola asking for a pause, the proceedings to start this 10 second race took 20 minutes. Having a false start against you would normally make an athlete more careful and slower to react. Hary's incredible reaction to the gun and sprint form through the acceleration phase has been studied for generations[3][4], needless to say it put him in the lead, on the outside of the track in lane 6, putting nearly a 2 metre gap on Peter Radford to his inside. Also with a false start against him, Dave Sime was the slowest out of the blocks with a deficit to make up across the track from Hary in lane 1. But make up the deficit he did, gaining with every step, passing the field by 70 metres and gaining until he was virtually running stride for stride against Hary at the line. Hary held Sime off, leaning at the tape to take the gold. With the fastest closing speed over the last 20 metres, Radford made up a big gap, to take the slight edge over Figueola and Frank Budd all finishing together.
Later, as a professor of sports science, Radford said he thinks he figured out the "tell" Hary used to anticipate the gun.
"He'd wait until we were all on our fingertips in the set position. Then he'd take up his place, pause momentarily – and run. He might get caught with a false start, but he might also get away with it."[5]
Hary ran representing EUA, a combined team of German athletes from both sides of the cold war. Beethoven's 9th Symphony was played at the award ceremony. Hary's win interrupted USA's winning streak of 5 in a row dating back to 1932.
Results
Final
Armin Hary and Dave Sime tied the Olympic record.
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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Armin Hary | 10.2 seconds | =OR | ||
Dave Sime | 10.2 seconds | =OR | ||
Peter Radford | 10.3 seconds | |||
4 | Enrique Figuerola | 10.3 seconds | ||
5 | Frank Budd | 10.3 seconds | ||
6 | Ray Norton | 10.4 seconds |
- Wind speed = -0.0 m/s
Preliminaries
Heats
The top three runners in each of the 9 heats advanced.
Heat one
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Enrique Figuerola | 10.4 seconds | |
2 | Carl Fredrik Bunæs | 10.7 seconds | |
3 | Yuriy Konovalov | 10.7 seconds | |
4 | Suthi Manyakass | 10.8 seconds | |
5 | Mikhail Bachvarov | 11.0 seconds | |
6 | Amos Grodzinowsky | 11.1 seconds | |
7 | Raj Joshi Tilak | 11.3 seconds |
Heat two
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Seraphino Antao | 10.5 seconds | |
2 | Armin Hary | 10.6 seconds | |
3 | Heinz Müller | 10.8 seconds | |
4 | Gustav Ntiforo | 11.0 seconds | |
5 | Isaac Gómez | 11.0 seconds | |
6 | Dennis Tipping | 11.2 seconds | |
7 | Abdul Khaliq | 11.2 seconds |
Heat three
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Horacio Esteves | 10.4 seconds | |
2 | Dennis Johnson | 10.4 seconds | |
3 | Dave Sime | 10.5 seconds | |
4 | Lynn Eves | 10.8 seconds | |
5 | Aggrey Awori | 10.9 seconds | |
6 | Patrick Lowry | 10.9 seconds | |
7 | Roba Negousse | 11.3 seconds |
Heat four
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Harry Jerome | 10.5 seconds | |
2 | Jocelyn Delecour | 10.5 seconds | |
3 | Erasmus Amukun | 10.6 seconds | |
4 | Affonso da Silva | 10.8 seconds | |
5 | Bouchaib El-Maachi | 10.9 seconds | |
6 | Shahrudin Mohamed Ali | 10.9 seconds | |
- | James Omagbemi | DNS |
Heat five
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Tom Robinson | 10.5 seconds | |
2 | Lloyd Murad | 10.7 seconds | |
3 | Sitiveni Moceidreke | 10.8 seconds | |
4 | George Short | 10.9 seconds | |
5 | Emmanuel Putu | 11.2 seconds | |
6 | Kim Jong-cheol | 11.5 seconds |
Heat six
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Ray Norton | 10.7 seconds | |
2 | Gusman Kosanov | 10.7 seconds | |
3 | Santiago Plaza | 10.8 seconds | |
4 | Walter Mahlendorf | 10.8 seconds | |
5 | Romain Poté | 11.0 seconds | |
6 | Aydin Onur | 11.3 seconds | |
7 | Abdul Hadi Shekaib | 11.6 seconds |
Heat seven
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | David Jones | 10.5 seconds | |
2 | Abdoulaye Seye | 10.6 seconds | |
3 | Rafael Romero | 10.7 seconds | |
4 | Elmar Kunauer | 11.0 seconds | |
5 | Huang Suh-chuang | 11.2 seconds | |
6 | Khudhir Zalata | 11.3 seconds | |
- | Iftikhar Shah | DNF |
Heat eight
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Marian Foik | 10.5 seconds | |
2 | Edward Jefferys | 10.6 seconds | |
3 | Claude Piquemal | 10.7 seconds | |
4 | Jalal Gozal | 10.9 seconds | |
5 | Manfred Germar | 11.0 seconds | |
6 | Hamdan El-Tayeb | 11.1 seconds | |
7 | José Albarrán | 11.2 seconds |
Heat nine
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Peter Radford | 10.4 seconds | |
2 | Frank Budd | 10.4 seconds | |
3 | Edvin Ozolin | 10.7 seconds | |
4 | Hilmar Thorbjörnsson | 10.9 seconds | |
5 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | 11.0 seconds | |
6 | Moustafa Abdel Kader | 11.2 seconds | |
7 | James Roberts | 11.2 seconds |
Quarterfinal
The top three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.
Heat one
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Horacio Esteves | 10.5 seconds | |
2 | Tom Robinson | 10.6 seconds | |
3 | Ray Norton | 10.6 seconds | |
4 | Jocelyn Delecour | 10.7 seconds | |
5 | Edward Jefferys | 10.7 seconds | |
6 | Edvin Ozolin | 10.7 seconds | |
7 | Heinz Müller | 10.8 seconds |
Heat two
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Armin Hary | 10.2 seconds OR | |
2 | Dave Sime | 10.3 seconds | |
3 | Marian Foik | 10.4 seconds | |
4 | Dennis Johnson | 10.4 seconds | |
5 | Carl Fredrik Bunæs | 10.5 seconds | |
6 | Yuriy Konovalov | 10.5 seconds | |
7 | Sitiveni Moceidreke | 10.7 seconds |
Heat three
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Frank Budd | 10.4 seconds | |
2 | Enrique Figuerola | 10.4 seconds | |
3 | David Jones | 10.5 seconds | |
4 | Erasmus Amukun | 10.6 seconds | |
5 | Claude Piquemal | 10.6 seconds | |
6 | Gusman Kosanov | 10.7 seconds | |
7 | Santiago Plaza | 10.8 seconds |
Heat four
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Harry Jerome | 10.4 seconds | |
2 | Peter Radford | 10.4 seconds | |
3 | Seraphino Antao | 10.4 seconds | |
4 | Abdoulaye Seye | 10.4 seconds | |
5 | Lloyd Murad | 10.8 seconds | |
6 | Rafael Romero | 11.1 seconds |
Semifinals
The top three runners in each of the two semifinals advanced to the final.
Heat one
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Peter Radford | 10.4 seconds | |
2 | Enrique Figuerola | 10.4 seconds | |
3 | Frank Budd | 10.5 seconds | |
4 | Marian Foik | 10.5 seconds | |
5 | Tom Robinson | 10.5 seconds | |
- | Harry Jerome | DNF |
Heat two
Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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1 | Armin Hary | 10.3 seconds | |
2 | Dave Sime | 10.4 seconds | |
3 | Ray Norton | 10.4 seconds | |
4 | David Jones | 10.4 seconds | |
5 | Horacio Esteves | 10.5 seconds | |
6 | Seraphino Antao | 10.6 seconds |
References
- ↑ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=faX4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=armin+hary+reaction+time+test&source=bl&ots=fnQ0q0aYJE&sig=KMxwiZK5v9rl7xCE3pRGaYjVilo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih85DRlqzYAhVG-lQKHYtIB_0Q6AEIZDAJ#v=onepage&q=armin%20hary%20reaction%20time%20test&f=false XVII Olympiad: Rome 1960, Innsbruck 1964 By Ellen Phillips
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=MqVmAAAAMAAJ&q=armin+hary+study&dq=armin+hary+study&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqhcTSmqzYAhUE52MKHSW5DqIQ6AEIQTAE
- ↑ http://speedendurance.com/2011/11/30/the-rocket-sprint-start-2011-edition/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jan/10/frozen-in-time-olympics-100m