Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario; Mexico City, Mexico
Dates	October 13 (heats, quarterfinals); October 14, 1968 (semifinals, final)
Competitors	65 from 42 nations
Winning time	9.95 seconds
Medalists

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place at Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City, Mexico, on October 13 and 14. The final was won by American Jim Hines.[1]

Official Video Highlights

Summary

Mel Pender and Charlie Greene were known for their fast starts. In the final, while Greene reacted to the gun noticeably slower, Pender did not disappoint, taking a quick lead. Greene, Lennox Miller and Jim Hines were the next chase group, the three outer lanes already left behind. The diminutive Pender's lead disappeared, the much larger Miller leading the group in passing by the halfway point. Hines was just getting into gear, exploding past Miller and putting a gap on the field to take the race by two metres. Miller leaned but he already had a metre on Green who was a metre ahead of Pablo Montes, Roger Bambuck and Pender to take the bronze.

Results

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time (h)	Time (a)	Notes
	3	Jim Hines	United States	9.9	9.95	EWR
	4	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.0	10.04
	1	Charlie Greene	United States	10.0	10.07
4	2	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.1	10.14
5	6	Roger Bambuck	France	10.1	10.14
6	5	Mel Pender	United States	10.1	10.17
7	7	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.2	10.20
8	8	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.2	10.28	Photo-finish shows 10.275

Wind speed = 0.3 m/s (0.67 mph)

Key: EWR = Electronic world record

Preliminaries

Heats

The top three runners in each of the nine heats and the next fastest five, advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Advance on placement

Advance on time

Heat one *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Charlie Greene	United States	10.09
2	Hideo Iijima	Japan	10.24
3	Canagasabai Kunalan	Singapore	10.47
4	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.49
5	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.61

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jim Hines	United States	10.26
2	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.30
3	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.37
4	Amos Omolo	Uganda	10.50
5	Porfirio Veras	Dominican Republic	10.51
6	Julius Sang	Kenya	10.64
7	Jorge Vizcarrondo	Puerto Rico	10.71
8	Manuel Planchart	Venezuela	10.80

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.40
2	Iván Moreno	Chile	10.53
3	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.55
4	Yevgeny Sinyayev	Soviet Union	10.56
5	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.57
6	Charles Asati	Kenya	10.63
7	Jimmy Sierra	Colombia	10.88

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.14
2	Mel Pender	United States	10.35
3	Ron Jones	Great Britain	10.45
4	Oleksiy Khlopotnov	Soviet Union	10.49
5	Norris Stubbs	Bahamas	10.67
6	Chen Chuan-show	Republic of China	10.91
7	Philippe Housiaux	Belgium	10.94

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Roger Bambuck	France	10.18
2	Heinz Erbstößer	East Germany	10.42
3	Michael Ahey	Ghana	10.59
4	Bernard Nottage	Bahamas	10.64
5	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	10.65
6	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	10.75
7	Su Wen-ho	Republic of China	10.81

Heat six *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.15
2	Hartmut Schelter	East Germany	10.34
3	Manikavasagam Jegathesan	Malaysia	10.35
4	Robert Ojo	Nigeria	10.47
5	Ron Monsegue	Trinidad and Tobago	10.56
6	Rogelio Onofre	Philippines	10.58
-	Tom Robinson	Bahamas		DNF

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.35
2	Karl-Peter Schmidtke	West Germany	10.38
3	Harald Eggers	East Germany	10.38
4	Kola Abdulai	Nigeria	10.45
5	Miguel Angel González	Mexico	10.59
6	Pablo McNeil	Jamaica	10.62
7	Hassan El-Mech	Morocco	10.79
8	Morgan Gesmalla	Sudan	11.09

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.42
2	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.42
3	Marian Dudziak	Poland	10.46
4	Vladislav Sapeya	Soviet Union	10.46
5	Eddy Monsels	Suriname	10.48
6	Greg Lewis	Australia	10.55
7	Félix Bécquer	Mexico	10.72
8	Rafael Santos	El Salvador	11.22

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	10.30
2	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	10.44
3	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.45
4	Gert Metz	West Germany	10.55
5	Norman Chihota	Tanzania	10.57
6	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	10.65
7	José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	Spain	10.69
8	Juan Argüello	Nicaragua	11.18

Quarterfinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.11
2	Jim Hines	United States	10.14
3	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.23
4	Iván Moreno	Chile	10.37
5	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	10.39
6	Ron Jones	Great Britain	10.42
7	Karl-Peter Schmidtke	West Germany	10.48
8	Vladislav Sapeya	Soviet Union	10.51

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	10.10
2	Mel Pender	United States	10.16
3	Roger Bambuck	France	10.17
4	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.22
5	Heinz Erbstößer	East Germany	10.28
6	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.33
7	Kola Abdulai	Nigeria	10.38
8	Michael Ahey	Ghana	10.49

Heat three *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.16
2	Hartmut Schelter	East Germany	10.29
3	Hideo Iijima	Japan	10.31
4	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.31
5	Marian Dudziak	Poland	10.32
6	Manikavasagam Jegathesan	Malaysia	10.38
7	Amos Omolo	Uganda	10.45
8	Robert Ojo	Nigeria	10.45

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Charlie Greene	United States	10.02
2	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.18	NR
3	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.22
4	Harald Eggers	East Germany	10.25
5	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.35
6	Jocelyn Delecour	France	10.36
7	Canagasabai Kunalan	Singapore	10.38
8	Eddy Monsels	Suriname	10.45

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jim Hines	United States	10.08
2	Roger Bambuck	France	10.11
3	Harry Jerome	Canada	10.17
4	Mel Pender	United States	10.21
5	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	10.23
6	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	10.25
7	Harald Eggers	East Germany	10.29
8	Hideo Iijima	Japan	10.34

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Charlie Greene	United States	10.13
2	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.15
3	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.19
4	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.26
5	Gaoussou Koné	Ivory Coast	10.27
6	Iván Moreno	Chile	10.37
7	Gérard Fenouil	France	10.40
8	Hartmut Schelter	East Germany	10.40

Key: WR = World record; EWR = Equalled world record; DNF = Did not finish; * Wind assisted

References

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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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