Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres; at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium; Tokyo, Japan
Dates	14 October (heats, quarterfinals); 15 October 1964 (semifinals, finals)
Competitors	76 from 49 nations
Winning time	10.0 seconds
Medalists

The men's 100 metres was the shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo, Japan. It was held at the Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 October 1964. 76 athletes from 49 nations entered, with 3 not starting in the first round. The first two rounds were held on 14 October, with the semifinals and the final on the following day.[1]

Official Video Highlights

In the final, American Bob Hayes tied the world record of 10.0 seconds and won the gold medal. Enrique Figuerola of Cuba and Harry Jerome of Canada tied the old Olympic record time and both won silver.

Results

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Note
	Bob Hayes	United States	10.0 seconds	=WR
	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.2 seconds
	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.2 seconds
4	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.4 seconds
5	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	10.4 seconds
6	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.4 seconds
7	Mel Pender	United States	10.4 seconds
8	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.5 seconds

Wind speed= +1.1 m/s (2.5 mph)

Note that until the Tokyo Olympics world records were measured by officials with stopwatches, measured to the nearest tenth of a second. Although fully automatic timing was used in Tokyo, the times were given the appearance of manual timing. This was done by subtracting 0.05 seconds from the automatic time and rounding to the nearest tenth of a second, making Hayes' time of 10.06 seconds convert to 10.0 seconds, despite the fact that the officials with stopwatches had measured Hayes' time to be 9.9 seconds,[2] and the average difference between manual and automatic times was typically 0.15 to 0.20 seconds. This unique method of determining the official time therefore denied Hayes the record of being the first to officially record 9.9 seconds for the 100 meters. The first official times of 9.9 seconds were recorded at the "Night of Speed" in 1968.

The 100 m final. Left-right: Tom Robinson, Wiesław Maniak, Harry Jerome, Gaoussou Koné, Enrique Figuerola, Heinz Schumann, Bob Hayes

Preliminaries

First round

The top three runners in each of the 10 heats advanced. The Official Report describes the weather for these heats as 'rainy'.

Advance on placement

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Hideo Iijima	Japan	10.3 seconds
2	Bernard Laidebeur	France	10.5 seconds
3	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.5 seconds
4	Kenneth Powell	India	10.7 seconds
5	Zbigniew Syka	Poland	10.7 seconds
6	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.8 seconds
7	Sara Camara	Mali	11.3 seconds

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Trenton Jackson	United States	10.5 seconds
2	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.6 seconds
3	B. El Maachi Bouchaib	Morocco	10.6 seconds
4	Csaba Csutorás	Hungary	10.7 seconds
5	Johan Du Preez	Rhodesia	10.7 seconds
6	Jeong Gi-seon	South Korea	11.0 seconds
7	Arnulfo Valles	Philippines	11.1 seconds

Wind, -2.51 m/s

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.5 seconds
2	Mel Pender	United States	10.5 seconds
3	Michael Ahey	Ghana	10.6 seconds
4	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	10.6 seconds
5	Wilton Jackson	Trinidad and Tobago	10.6 seconds
6	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	10.7 seconds
7	Gerardo di Tolla	Peru	10.9 seconds
8	Lee Ar-tu	Republic of China	11.2 seconds

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marian Dudziak	Poland	10.6 seconds
2	Stanley Fabian Allotey	Ghana	10.6 seconds
3	John Owiti	Kenya	10.6 seconds
4	Carlos Lorenzo	Mexico	10.7 seconds
5	George Collie	Bahamas	10.9 seconds
6	Masaru Kamata	Japan	10.9 seconds
7	Ho Thành Chinh	Vietnam	11.9 seconds
—	Nikolay Politiko	Soviet Union	DNS

First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.5 seconds
2	Claude Piquemal	France	10.5 seconds
3	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	10.8 seconds
4	James Odongo	Uganda	10.9 seconds
5	Gusman Kosanov	Soviet Union	10.9 seconds
6	Abdoulaye N'Diaye	Senegal	11.0 seconds
7	Levy Psawkin	Israel	11.1 seconds

First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	10.5 seconds
2	Dennis O. Johnson	Jamaica	10.6 seconds
3	William Earle	Australia	10.7 seconds
4	Serafino Antao	Kenya	10.7 seconds
5	Huba Rozsnyai	Hungary	10.8 seconds
6	Alf Meakin	Great Britain	10.8 seconds
7	David Njitock	Cameroon	11.1 seconds
—	Akbar Babakhanlou	Iran	11.1 seconds

First round, heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.5 seconds
2	Arquímedes Herrera	Venezuela	10.5 seconds
3	Mani Jegathesan	Malaysia	10.6 seconds
4	José de Rocha	Portugal	11.0 seconds
5	Bassirou Doumbia	Senegal	11.0 seconds
6	Francisco Gutiérrez	Colombia	11.0 seconds
7	Iftikhar Shah	Pakistan	11.4 seconds

First round, heat 8

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Bob Hayes	United States	10.4 seconds
2	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.5 seconds
3	Bob Lay	Australia	10.5 seconds
4	Ito Jiani	Italy	10.6 seconds
5	Rogelio Onofre	Philippines	10.7 seconds
6	Khudher Zalada	Iraq	11.1 seconds
—	David Ejoke	Nigeria	Did not start

First round, heat 9

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Fritz Obersiebrasse	United Team of Germany	10.4 seconds
2	Iván Moreno	Chile	10.5 seconds
3	Pablo McNeil	Jamaica	10.5 seconds
4	László Mihályfi	Hungary	10.6 seconds
5	Gary Holdsworth	Australia	10.6 seconds
6	Max Barandun	Switzerland	10.7 seconds
7	Jeffery Smith	Northern Rhodesia	10.8 seconds
8	Wesley Johnson	Liberia	Did not finish

First round, heat 10

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.5 seconds
2	Lynn Headley	Jamaica	10.5 seconds
3	Roger Bambuck	France	10.6 seconds
4	Manfred Knickenberg	United Team of Germany	10.7 seconds
5	Léon Yombe	Republic of the Congo	10.8 seconds
6	Alberto Torres	Dominican Republic	10.9 seconds
7	Suthi Manyakass	Thailand	10.9 seconds
8	Rogelio Rivas	Spain	11.1 seconds

Second round

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

Second round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.3 seconds
2	Trenton Jackson	United States	10.4 seconds
3	Fritz Obersiebrasse	United Team of Germany	10.4 seconds
4	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.4 seconds
5	Dennis O. Johnson	Jamaica	10.5 seconds
6	Marian Dudziak	Poland	10.5 seconds
7	Bernard Laidebeur	France	10.5 seconds
8	William Joseph Earle	Australia	10.9 seconds

Wind, +1.90 m/s

Second round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.3 seconds
2	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.3 seconds
3	Bob Lay	Australia	10.4 seconds
4	Claude Piquemal	France	10.4 seconds
5	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.4 seconds
6	B. El Maachi Bouchaib	Morocco	10.5 seconds
7	John Owiti	Kenya	10.6 seconds

Second round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.3 seconds
2	Mel Pender	United States	10.4 seconds
3	Iijima Hideo	Japan	10.5 seconds
4	Pablo McNeil	Jamaica	10.5 seconds
5	Mani Jegathesan	Malaysia	10.6 seconds
6	Ivan Moreno	Chile	10.6 seconds
7	Stanley Fabian Allotey	Ghana	10.7 seconds
8	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	10.7 seconds

Second round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Bob Hayes	United States	10.3 seconds
2	Arquimedes Herrera	Venezuela	10.4 seconds
3	Lynn Headley	Jamaica	10.4 seconds
4	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	10.5 seconds
5	Peter Radford	Great Britain	10.5 seconds
6	Roger Bambuck	France	10.5 seconds
7	Michael Ahey	Ghana	10.6 seconds

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

The tailwind speed of 5.28 m/s meant this semifinal was ineligible for record purposes.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Bob Hayes	United States	9.9w seconds
2	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.1w seconds
3	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	10.2w seconds
4	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	10.3w seconds
5	Robert William Lay	Australia	10.3w seconds
6	Pablo McNeil	Jamaica	10.3w seconds
7	Arquimedes Herrera	Venezuela	10.4w seconds
8	Trenton Jackson	United States	10.6w seconds

Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.3 seconds
2	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.4 seconds
3	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.4 seconds
4	Mel Pender	United States	10.4 seconds
5	Claude Piquemal	France	10.5 seconds
6	Lynn Headley	Jamaica	10.5 seconds
7	Iijima Hideo	Japan	10.6 seconds
8	Fritz Obersiebrasse	United Team of Germany	10.6 seconds

References

"Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
revisionist history: men's 100 WR. trackandfieldnews.com. 1 November 2013

Official Report

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[SR-1] "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2017.

[2] revisionist history: men's 100 WR. trackandfieldnews.com. 1 November 2013

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

100 metres at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics
Complete event history
Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
See also: Men's 100 metres 1906 Intercalated Games Men's 60 metres 1900 1904