Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
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

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]

Official Video Highlights

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.

Along with Enrique Figuerola asking for a pause, the proceedings to start this 10 second race took 20 minutes. 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. 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 East and West Germany.

Results

Final

100 m final, left-right: Armin Hary, Peter Radford, Enrique Figuerola, Ray Norton, Frank Budd, Dave Sime

Armin Hary and Dave Sime tied the Olympic record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Armin Hary	United Team of Germany	10.2 seconds	=OR
	Dave Sime	United States	10.2 seconds	=OR
	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.3 seconds
4	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.3 seconds
5	Frank Budd	United States	10.3 seconds
6	Ray Norton	United States	10.4 seconds

Wind speed = -0.0 m/s

Preliminaries

Heats

The top three runners in each of the 9 heats advanced.

Advance on placement

Heat one

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
2	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	10.7 seconds
3	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
4	Suthi Manyakass	Thailand	10.8 seconds
5	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	11.0 seconds
6	Amos Grodzinowsky	Israel	11.1 seconds
7	Raj Joshi Tilak	India	11.3 seconds

Heat two

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	10.5 seconds
2	Armin Hary	United Team of Germany	10.6 seconds
3	Heinz Müller	Switzerland	10.8 seconds
4	Gustav Ntiforo	Ghana	11.0 seconds
5	Isaac Gómez	Philippines	11.0 seconds
6	Dennis Tipping	Australia	11.2 seconds
7	Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	11.2 seconds

Heat three

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.4 seconds
2	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	10.4 seconds
3	Dave Sime	United States	10.5 seconds
4	Lynn Eves	Canada	10.8 seconds
5	Aggrey Awori	Uganda	10.9 seconds
6	Patrick Lowry	Ireland	10.9 seconds
7	Roba Negousse	Ethiopia	11.3 seconds

Heat four

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.5 seconds
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.5 seconds
3	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	10.6 seconds
4	Affonso da Silva	Brazil	10.8 seconds
5	Bouchaib El-Maachi	Morocco	10.9 seconds
6	Shahrudin Mohamed Ali	Malaya	10.9 seconds
-	James Omagbemi	Nigeria	DNS

Heat five

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.5 seconds
2	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	10.7 seconds
3	Sitiveni Moceidreke	Fiji	10.8 seconds
4	George Short	Canada	10.9 seconds
5	Emmanuel Putu	Liberia	11.2 seconds
6	Kim Jong-cheol	South Korea	11.5 seconds

Heat six

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ray Norton	United States	10.7 seconds
2	Gusman Kosanov	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
3	Santiago Plaza	Mexico	10.8 seconds
4	Walter Mahlendorf	United Team of Germany	10.8 seconds
5	Romain Poté	Belgium	11.0 seconds
6	Aydin Onur	Turkey	11.3 seconds
7	Abdul Hadi Shekaib	Afghanistan	11.6 seconds

Heat seven

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	David Jones	Great Britain	10.5 seconds
2	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.6 seconds
3	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	10.7 seconds
4	Elmar Kunauer	Austria	11.0 seconds
5	Huang Suh-chuang	Republic of China	11.2 seconds
6	Khudhir Zalata	Iraq	11.3 seconds
-	Iftikhar Shah	Pakistan	DNF

Heat eight

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marian Foik	Poland	10.5 seconds
2	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	10.6 seconds
3	Claude Piquemal	France	10.7 seconds
4	Jalal Gozal	Indonesia	10.9 seconds
5	Manfred Germar	United Team of Germany	11.0 seconds
6	Hamdan El-Tayeb	Sudan	11.1 seconds
7	José Albarrán	Spain	11.2 seconds

Heat nine

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
2	Frank Budd	United States	10.4 seconds
3	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
4	Hilmar Thorbjörnsson	Iceland	10.9 seconds
5	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.0 seconds
6	Moustafa Abdel Kader	Egypt	11.2 seconds
7	James Roberts	Liberia	11.2 seconds

Quarterfinal

The top three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.

Heat one

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.5 seconds
2	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.6 seconds
3	Ray Norton	United States	10.6 seconds
4	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.7 seconds
5	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	10.7 seconds
6	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
7	Heinz Müller	Switzerland	10.8 seconds

Heat two

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Armin Hary	United Team of Germany	10.2 seconds OR
2	Dave Sime	United States	10.3 seconds
3	Marian Foik	Poland	10.4 seconds
4	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	10.4 seconds
5	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	10.5 seconds
6	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	10.5 seconds
7	Sitiveni Moceidreke	Fiji	10.7 seconds

Heat three

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Frank Budd	United States	10.4 seconds
2	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
3	David Jones	Great Britain	10.5 seconds
4	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	10.6 seconds
5	Claude Piquemal	France	10.6 seconds
6	Gusman Kosanov	Soviet Union	10.7 seconds
7	Santiago Plaza	Mexico	10.8 seconds

Heat four

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.4 seconds
2	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
3	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	10.4 seconds
4	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.4 seconds
5	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	10.8 seconds
6	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	11.1 seconds

Semifinals

The top three runners in each of the two semifinals advanced to the final.

Heat one

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
2	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
3	Frank Budd	United States	10.5 seconds
4	Marian Foik	Poland	10.5 seconds
5	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.5 seconds
-	Harry Jerome	Canada	DNF

Heat two

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Armin Hary	United Team of Germany	10.3 seconds
2	Dave Sime	United States	10.4 seconds
3	Ray Norton	United States	10.4 seconds
4	David Jones	Great Britain	10.4 seconds
5	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.5 seconds
6	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	10.6 seconds

References

"Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. 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
"Library of Congress Catalogs: Films and Other Materials for Projection". 1978.
"The Rocket Sprint Start, 2011 Edition, now Available!". 2011-11-30.
Lamont, Tom (2010-01-10). "Frozen in time: Armin Hary wins 100m Olympic Gold, Rome, 1960". The Guardian.

External links

Olympic Report 1960 Volume 2

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[SR-1] "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2017.

[2] ttps://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

[3] "Library of Congress Catalogs: Films and Other Materials for Projection". 1978.

[4] "The Rocket Sprint Start, 2011 Edition, now Available!". 2011-11-30.

[5] Lamont, Tom (2010-01-10). "Frozen in time: Armin Hary wins 100m Olympic Gold, Rome, 1960". The Guardian.

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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
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100 metres at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics
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See also: Men's 100 metres 1906 Intercalated Games Men's 60 metres 1900 1904