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

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.[1]

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lindy Remigino	United States	10.79	Photo-determined finish
	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
1	John Treloar	Australia	10.92
2	Alan Lillington	Great Britain	11.06
3	Gabriel Lareya	Ghana	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
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	Adul Wanasatith	Thailand	11.61

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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
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
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
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
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	Ghana	11.47
6	Mariano Acosta	Argentina	11.58
7	Wolfango Montanari	Italy	12.25

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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
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	Arun Sankosik	Thailand	11.76

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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
1	Dean Smith	United States	10.90
2	Alain Porthault	France	11.04
3	Erich Fuchs	Germany	11.19
4	Karim Olowu	Nigeria	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
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
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
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
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
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

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Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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See also: Men's 100 metres 1906 Intercalated Games Men's 60 metres 1900 1904