Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres; at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion; Munich, West Germany
Dates	31 August (heats, quarterfinals); 1 September 1972 (semifinals, final)
Winning time	10.14 seconds
Medalists

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, was held at Olympiastadion on 31 August and 1 September.[1]

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This event is notable for the absence of favorites and world record holders Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson from their quarterfinal heats due to a communication error, leading to American sprint coach Stan Wright being given the wrong starting time.

The three qualified American athletes, Robinson, Hart and Robert Taylor, were at the ABC television headquarters watching what they believed were replays of their morning preliminary races before being informed they were watching live coverage of the races they were scheduled to run in.

The athletes rushed to the stadium, but Hart and Robinson, scheduled in the first two races, missed their heats, while Robert Taylor hurried to take off his warm up uniform before running his heat. An appeal by American officials to have Robinson and Hart run in another heat was rejected.

Results

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	2	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.14
	4	Robert Taylor	United States	10.24
	5	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.33
4	6	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.36
5	8	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.40
6	7	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.40
7	1	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.46
	3	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	DNF

Wind speed = 0.3 m/s (0.67 mph)

Preliminaries

Heats

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

Advance on placement

Advance on time

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.45
2	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.51
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.66
4	Rudy Reid	Trinidad and Tobago	10.74
5	Dan Amuke	Kenya	10.76
6	Byambajavyn Enkhbaatar	Mongolia	10.93
7	Samphon Mao	Cambodia	10.95
8	Luis Alers	Puerto Rico	11.09

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.47
2	Mike Sands	Bahamas	10.67
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.72
4	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.82
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.89
6	Yeo Kian Chye	Singapore	10.92
7	Alphonse Yanghat	Republic of the Congo	10.95
8	Andrew Sartee	Liberia	11.09

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	10.49
2	Sandy Osei-Agyemang	Ghana	10.52
3	Les Piggot	Great Britain	10.54
4	John Mwebi	Kenya	10.60
5	Luís da Silva	Brazil	10.63
6	Kevin Johnson	Bahamas	10.91
7	Mansour Al-Juaid	Saudi Arabia	11.23

Heat four *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	10.37
2	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.41
3	Kouakou Komenan	Ivory Coast	10.50
4	Walter Callander	Bahamas	10.78
5	George Calhern	Virgin Islands	10.90
6	Farhan Navab	Iran	11.02
7	Angel Guerreros	Paraguay	11.12

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.38
2	Kola Abdulai	Nigeria	10.57
3	Stanisław Wagner	Poland	10.62
4	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.66
5	Félix Mata	Venezuela	10.73
6	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	10.99
7	Younis Abdallah	Kuwait	11.20

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Rey Robinson	United States	10.56
2	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.58
3	Sammy Monsels	Suriname	10.61
4	George Daniels	Ghana	10.65
5	André Bicaba	Upper Volta	10.71
6	Motsapi Moorosi	Lesotho	10.74
7	William Dralu	Uganda	10.92

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.50
2	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.58
3	Erik Gustafsson	Finland	10.68
4	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	10.73
5	Norman Chihota	Tanzania	10.79
6	Egzi Gebre-Gebre	Ethiopia	10.89
7	Pierre-Richard Gaetjens	Haiti	11.50

Heat eight *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.30
2	Bernd Borth	East Germany	10.48
3	Audun Garshol	Norway	10.49
4	Su Wen-Ho	Republic of China	10.59
5	Gana Abba Kimet	Chad	10.89
6	Raimo Vilén	Finland	11.00
7	Lionel Caero	Bolivia	11.19

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Alain Sarteur	France	10.42
2	Saleh Alah-Djaba	Chad	10.65
3	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.68
4	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	10.73
5	Laurie D'Arcy	New Zealand	10.77
6	Larmeck Mukonde	Zambia	11.16

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.24
2	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.29
3	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.47
4	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.52
5	Ainsley Armstrong	Trinidad and Tobago	10.56
6	Jorge Vizcarrondo	Puerto Rico	10.79
7	Zain-ud-Din bin Abdul Wahab	Malaysia	10.80

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Eddie Hart	United States	10.47
2	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.66
3	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.67
4	Benedict Majekodunmi	Nigeria	10.70
5	Gaston Malam	Cameroon	10.88
6	Sunil Gunawardene	Sri Lanka	11.00
7	Tukal Mokalam	Philippines	11.02

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Robert Taylor	United States	10.32
2	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.36
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.36
4	Volodymyr Atamas	Soviet Union	10.51
5	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	10.61
6	André Byrame	France	10.64
7	Moustafa Matola	Malawi	11.31

Quarterfinals

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

Heat one

Hart failed to appear due to a scheduling change and coaching error.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.25
2	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	10.35
3	Bernd Borth	East Germany	10.44
4	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.45
5	Ainsley Armstrong	Trinidad and Tobago	10.47
6	Mike Sands	Bahamas	10.50
7	Audun Garshol	Norway	10.55
-	Eddie Hart	United States	DNS

Heat two

Robinson failed to appear due to a scheduling change and coaching error.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.47
2	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.58
3	Kouakou Komenan	Ivory Coast	10.60
4	Stanisław Wagner	Poland	10.61
5	Sandy Osei-Agyemang	Ghana	10.66
6	Erik Gustafsson	Finland	10.78
7	Su Wen-Ho	Republic of China	10.82
-	Rey Robinson	United States	DNS

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.07 ER
2	Robert Taylor	United States	10.16
3	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.18
4	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.40
5	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.44
6	Les Piggot	Great Britain	10.53
7	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.54
8	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.64

Heat four*

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.23
2	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.27
3	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.28
4	Kola Abdulai	Nigeria	10.41
5	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.43
6	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	10.44
7	Saleh Alah-Djaba	Chad	10.51
8	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.51

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.33
2	Alain Sarteur	France	10.40
3	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.45
4	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.52
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.52
6	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.60
7	Sammy Monsels	Suriname	10.64
8	Vladimir Atamas	Soviet Union	10.83

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Papageorgopoulos was forced to scratch after he pulled a groin muscle in the quarter-finals.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.21
2	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.36
3	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.36
4	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.48
5	Alain Sarteur	France	10.51
6	Kouakou Komenan	Ivory Coast	10.57
7	Bernd Borth	East Germany	10.60
-	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	DNS

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Robert Taylor	United States	10.30
2	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.31
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.35
4	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.42
5	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.42
6	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.46
7	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	10.40
8	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.40

Key: DNF = Did not finish
* Wind assisted

References

"Athletics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

3. Die Spiele, The official report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972, Volume 3 The competitions, page 49.

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Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
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