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
Bob Hayes   United States   Enrique Figuerola   Cuba   Harry Jerome   Canada

Official Video Highlights

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

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.

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,^[1] 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	Iijima Hideo	Japan	10.3 seconds
2	Bernard Laidebeur	France	10.5 seconds
3	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	10.5 seconds
4	Kenneth Lawrence 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	Chung Ki Sun	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	Taiwan	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 Mañueco	Mexico	10.7 seconds
5	George Reginald Collie	Bahamas	10.9 seconds
6	Kamata Masaru	Japan	10.9 seconds
7	Chinh Ho Than	Vietnam	11.9 seconds
—	Nikolay Politiko	Soviet Union

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 Oduka	Uganda	10.9 seconds
5	Gusman Kosanov	Soviet Union	10.9 seconds
6	Abdoulaye Ndiaye	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 Joseph 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	Did not start

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	Jose Fernandes da Rocha	Portugal	11.0 seconds
5	Bassirou Doumya	Senegal	11.0 seconds
6	Francisco J. Gutiérrez Hernández	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	Ivan 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	Leon Yombe	Congo	10.8 seconds
6	Alberto Torres Mota	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	10.6seconds
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

Excessive wind from behind the runners made this semifinal ineligible for world record breaking.

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

Wind, +5.28 m/s

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

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

• Official Report