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100 metres, Men

Date	31 July – 1 August 1992
Status	Olympic
Location	Estadio Olímpico de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Participants	81 from 66 countries

The last five major international championships in the 100 had all been won by Carl Lewis – the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, and the 1983, 1987, and 1991 World Champinoships. But in both 1990 and 1991, Leroy Burrell (USA) was ranked as #1 in the world by Track & Field News. In 1990 he was chased by Britain’s Linford Christie, who won both the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships. Lewis, hampered by a viral infection at the Trials, only made the US team in the long jump. Burrell and Dennis Mitchell both qualified for the 100. Burrell and Christie looked on top form in the prelims, with Burrell defeating Christie 9.97 to 10.00 in the semis into a headwind. But in the final, after two false starts, Burrell started very slowly and was never in the race. Christie won fairly comfortably with a charge in the last 50 metres. Namibia’s Frank Fredericks was second, and Mitchell won the bronze medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	QF	SF	Final
1	695	Linford Christie	GBR	10.48 (1 h3)	10.07 (1 h4)	10.00 (2 h1)	9.96 (1)	Gold
2	1272	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	10.29 (1 h4)	10.13 (1 h2)	10.17 (1 h2)	10.02 (2)	Silver
3	1738	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.21 (1 h2)	10.22 (1 h3)	10.10 (3 h1)	10.04 (3)	Bronze
4	247	Bruny Surin	CAN	10.37 (2 h9)	10.24 (2 h2)	10.21 (2 h2)	10.09 (4)
5	1675	Leroy Burrell	USA	10.21 (1 h1)	10.08 (2 h4)	9.97 (1 h1)	10.10 (5)
6	1294	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	10.36 (1 h7)	10.22 (2 h3)	10.28 (3 h2)	10.12 (6)
7	1064	Ray Stewart	JAM	10.61 (1 h5)	10.36 (4 h3)	10.33 (4 h2)	10.22 (7)
8	1299	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	10.31 (1 h6)	10.38 (4 h2)	10.23 (4 h1)	10.26 (8)
5 h1 r3/4	1302	Chidi Imoh	NGR	10.47 (1 h8)	10.21 (3 h4)	10.30 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r3/4	1436	Talal Mansour	QAT	10.43 (2 h7)	10.32 (3 h1)	10.34 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r3/4	138	Robson da Silva	BRA	10.24 (1 h10)	10.29 (2 h1)	10.32 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r3/4	876	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	10.45 (3 h9)	10.31 (3 h3)	10.34 (6 h2)	–
7 h1 r3/4	557	Vitaly Savin	EUN	10.29 (2 h2)	10.33 (3 h2)	10.33 (7 h1)	–
7 h2 r3/4	646	Max Morinière	FRA	10.36 (1 h9)	10.34 (4 h1)	10.42 (7 h2)	–
8 h1 r3/4	226	Ben Johnson	CAN	10.55 (2 h6)	10.30 (4 h4)	10.70 (8 h1)	–
AC h2 r3/4	1783	Mark Witherspoon	USA	10.27 (2 h10)	10.19 (1 h1)	– (DNF h2)	–
5 h1 r2/4	681	Marcus Adam	GBR	10.57 (2 h4)	10.35 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r2/4	874	John Myles-Mills	GHA	10.64 (3 h5)	10.41 (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r2/4	1078	Satoru Inoue	JPN	10.48 (2 h1)	10.50 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h4 r2/4	1519	Sanusi Turay	SLE	10.58 (3 h8)	10.40 (5 h4)	–	–
6 h1 r2/4	504	Pavel Galkin	EUN	10.43 (3 h10)	10.37 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r2/4	1547	Stefan Burkart	SUI	10.67 (3 h7)	10.57 (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r2/4	1451	Daniel Cojocaru	ROU	10.57 (2 h8)	10.57 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h4 r2/4	152	Arnaldo Oliveira	BRA	10.55 (2 h3)	10.47 (6 h4)	–	–
7 h1 r2/4	864	Eric Akogyiram	GHA	10.60 (3 h6)	10.68 (7 h1)	–	–
7 h2 r2/4	316	Samuel Nchinda-Kaya	CMR	10.41 (3 h2)	10.58 (7 h2)	–	–
7 h3 r2/4	662	Daniel Sangouma	FRA	10.63 (3 h3)	10.64 (7 h3)	–	–
7 h4 r2/4	1074	Shinji Aoto	JPN	10.54 (5 h10)	10.53 (7 h4)	–	–
8 h1 r2/4	231	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	10.64 (3 h4)	10.77 (8 h1)	–	–
8 h2 r2/4	109	Patrick Stevens	BEL	10.63 (2 h5)	10.69 (8 h2)	–	–
8 h3 r2/4	376	Giannis Zisimidis	CYP	10.51 (4 h10)	10.65 (8 h3)	–	–
8 h4 r2/4	311	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	CIV	10.55 (3 h1)	10.54 (8 h4)	–	–
4 h1 r1/4	678	Abdulieh Janneh	GAM	10.71 (4 h1)	–	–	–
4 h2 r1/4	776	Gustavo Envela	GEQ	10.65 (4 h2)	–	–	–
4 h3 r1/4	1643	Ato Boldon	TTO	10.77 (4 h3)	–	–	–
4 h4 r1/4	1640	Boevi Lawson	TOG	10.69 (4 h4)	–	–	–
4 h5 r1/4	977	Neville Hodge	ISV	10.71 (4 h5)	–	–	–
4 h6 r1/4	454	Juan Jesús Trapero	ESP	10.64 (4 h6)	–	–	–
4 h7 r1/4	1636	Visut Watanasin	THA	10.72 (4 h7)	–	–	–
4 h8 r1/4	1135	Kennedy Ondiek	KEN	10.60 (4 h8)	–	–	–
4 h9 r1/4	1096	Tatsuo Sugimoto	JPN	10.56 (4 h9)	–	–	–
5 h1 r1/4	1310	Hassan Illiassou	NIG	10.73 (5 h1)	–	–	–
5 h2 r1/4	1346	Florencio Aguilar	PAN	10.89 (5 h2)	–	–	–
5 h3 r1/4	1342	Hussain Arif	PAK	10.83 (5 h3)	–	–	–
5 h4 r1/4	1536	Sriyantha Dissanayake	SRI	10.87 (5 h4)	–	–	–
5 h5 r1/4	96	Henrico Atkins	BAR	10.83 (5 h5)	–	–	–
5 h6 r1/4	1661	Joel Otim	UGA	10.94 (5 h6)	–	–	–
5 h7 r1/4	157	André da Silva	BRA	10.78 (5 h7)	–	–	–
5 h8 r1/4	253	Kareem Streete-Thompson	CAY	10.78 (5 h8)	–	–	–
5 h9 r1/4	905	Ku Wai Ming	HKG	10.74 (5 h9)	–	–	–
6 h1 r1/4	166	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	BRN	10.80 (6 h1)	–	–	–
6 h2 r1/4	1525	Dominique Canti	SMR	11.14 (6 h2)	–	–	–
6 h3 r1/4	1824	Fabian Muyaba	ZIM	10.84 (6 h3)	–	–	–
6 h4 r1/4	891	Gabriel Simeon	GRN	11.10 (6 h4)	–	–	–
6 h5 r1/4	92	Golam Ambia	BAN	11.06 (6 h5)	–	–	–
6 h6 r1/4	892	Soriba Diakité	GUI	11.10 (6 h6)	–	–	–
6 h7 r1/4	203	Valentin Ngbogo	CAF	10.79 (6 h7)	–	–	–
6 h8 r1/4	257	David Nkoua	CGO	10.96 (6 h8)	–	–	–
6 h9 r1/4	1612	Toluta'u Koula	TGA	10.85 (6 h9)	–	–	–
6 h10 r1/4	1502	Charles-Louis Seck	SEN	10.57 (6 h10)	–	–	–
7 h1 r1/4	910	Jaime Zelaya	HON	11.02 (7 h1)	–	–	–
7 h3 r1/4	111	Pascal Dangbo	BEN	11.03 (7 h3)	–	–	–
7 h4 r1/4	1542	Adam Hassan Sakak	SUD	11.12 (7 h4)	–	–	–
7 h5 r1/4	583	Gabriele Qoro	FIJ	11.14 (7 h5)	–	–	–
7 h6 r1/4	1267	Noureddine Ould Ménira	MTN	11.22 (7 h6)	–	–	–
7 h7 r1/4	1357	Bernard Manana	PNG	11.35 (7 h7)	–	–	–
7 h8 r1/4	118	Emery Gill	BIZ	11.51 (7 h8)	–	–	–
7 h9 r1/4	18	Afonso Ferraz	ANG	11.32 (7 h9)	–	–	–
7 h10 r1/4	1253	Ousmane Diarra	MLI	10.87 (7 h10)	–	–	–
8 h1 r1/4	903	Claude Roumain	HAI	11.07 (8 h1)	–	–	–
8 h3 r1/4	326	Henry Daley	CRC	11.11 (8 h3)	–	–	–
8 h4 r1/4	1584	Robinson Stewart	SWZ	11.20 (8 h4)	–	–	–
8 h5 r1/4	320	Mark Sherwin	COK	11.53 (8 h5)	–	–	–
8 h6 r1/4	1224	Ahmed Shageef	MDV	11.36 (8 h6)	–	–	–
8 h7 r1/4	1164	Sitthixay Sacpraseuth	LAO	12.02 (8 h7)	–	–	–
8 h8 r1/4	1340	Ahmed Al-Moamari Bashir	OMA	11.58 (8 h8)	–	–	–
8 h9 r1/4	1791	Fletcher Wamilee	VAN	11.41 (8 h9)	–	–	–
8 h10 r1/4	1181	Bothloko Shebe	LES	10.94 (8 h10)	–	–	–
AC h2 r1/4	70	Andreas Berger	AUT	– (DQ h2)	–	–	–
AC h2 r1/4	675	Charles Tayot	GAB	– (DNF h2)	–	–	–
AC h10 r1/4	194	Patrice Traoré Zeba	BUR	– (DNF h10)	–	–	–

Round One (31 July 1992 — 10:30)

Top three in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the quarter-finals.

Heat One

Wind	-0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Leroy Burrell	USA	10.21	Q
2	3	Satoru Inoue	JPN	10.48	Q
3	4	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	CIV	10.55	Q
4	1	Abdulieh Janneh	GAM	10.71		1
5	2	Hassan Illiassou	NIG	10.73
6	5	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	BRN	10.80		2
7	7	Jaime Zelaya	HON	11.02
8	8	Claude Roumain	HAI	11.07

Heat Two

Wind	-0.5 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.21	Q
2	4	Vitaly Savin	EUN	10.29	Q
3	5	Samuel Nchinda-Kaya	CMR	10.41	Q
4	8	Gustavo Envela	GEQ	10.65
5	2	Florencio Aguilar	PAN	10.89
6	7	Dominique Canti	SMR	11.14
DNF	1	Charles Tayot	GAB	–
DQ	6	Andreas Berger	AUT	–		3

Heat Three

Wind	-0.3 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Linford Christie	GBR	10.48	Q
2	4	Arnaldo Oliveira	BRA	10.55	Q
3	6	Daniel Sangouma	FRA	10.63	Q
4	5	Ato Boldon	TTO	10.77
5	2	Hussain Arif	PAK	10.83
6	7	Fabian Muyaba	ZIM	10.84
7	1	Pascal Dangbo	BEN	11.03
8	8	Henry Daley	CRC	11.11

Heat Four

Wind	-1.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	10.29	Q
2	5	Marcus Adam	GBR	10.57	Q
3	4	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	10.64	Q
4	6	Boevi Lawson	TOG	10.69
5	1	Sriyantha Dissanayake	SRI	10.87
6	8	Gabriel Simeon	GRN	11.10
7	7	Adam Hassan Sakak	SUD	11.12
8	2	Robinson Stewart	SWZ	11.20

Heat Five

Wind	-2.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Ray Stewart	JAM	10.61	Q
2	4	Patrick Stevens	BEL	10.63	Q
3	5	John Myles-Mills	GHA	10.64	Q
4	6	Neville Hodge	ISV	10.71
5	1	Henrico Atkins	BAR	10.83
6	7	Golam Ambia	BAN	11.06
7	8	Gabriele Qoro	FIJ	11.14
8	2	Mark Sherwin	COK	11.53

Heat Six

Wind	-2.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	10.31	Q
2	3	Ben Johnson	CAN	10.55	Q
3	5	Eric Akogyiram	GHA	10.60	Q
4	4	Juan Jesús Trapero	ESP	10.64		4
5	7	Joel Otim	UGA	10.94
6	2	Soriba Diakité	GUI	11.10
7	1	Noureddine Ould Ménira	MTN	11.22
8	8	Ahmed Shageef	MDV	11.36

Heat Seven

Wind	-1.6 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	10.36	Q	5
2	4	Talal Mansour	QAT	10.43	Q
3	6	Stefan Burkart	SUI	10.67	Q	6
4	8	Visut Watanasin	THA	10.72
5	5	André da Silva	BRA	10.78
6	2	Valentin Ngbogo	CAF	10.79
7	7	Bernard Manana	PNG	11.35		7
8	1	Sitthixay Sacpraseuth	LAO	12.02

Heat Eight

Wind	-2.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Chidi Imoh	NGR	10.47	Q
2	3	Daniel Cojocaru	ROU	10.57	Q
3	6	Sanusi Turay	SLE	10.58	Q
4	4	Kennedy Ondiek	KEN	10.60
5	7	Kareem Streete-Thompson	CAY	10.78
6	2	David Nkoua	CGO	10.96
7	8	Emery Gill	BIZ	11.51
8	1	Ahmed Al-Moamari Bashir	OMA	11.58

Heat Nine

Wind	-1.6 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Max Morinière	FRA	10.36	Q
2	5	Bruny Surin	CAN	10.37	Q
3	4	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	10.45	Q
4	6	Tatsuo Sugimoto	JPN	10.56
5	8	Ku Wai Ming	HKG	10.74
6	1	Toluta'u Koula	TGA	10.85
7	2	Afonso Ferraz	ANG	11.32
8	7	Fletcher Wamilee	VAN	11.41

Heat Ten

Wind	-0.3 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Robson da Silva	BRA	10.24	Q
2	3	Mark Witherspoon	USA	10.27	Q
3	6	Pavel Galkin	EUN	10.43	Q
4	7	Giannis Zisimidis	CYP	10.51	q
5	4	Shinji Aoto	JPN	10.54	q
6	8	Charles-Louis Seck	SEN	10.57		8
7	1	Ousmane Diarra	MLI	10.87		9
8	9	Bothloko Shebe	LES	10.94
DNF	2	Patrice Traoré Zeba	BUR	–

Quarter-Finals (31 July 1992 — 19:20)

Top four in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One

Wind	0.9 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Mark Witherspoon	USA	10.19	Q
2	3	Robson da Silva	BRA	10.29	Q
3	6	Talal Mansour	QAT	10.32	Q
4	4	Max Morinière	FRA	10.34	Q
5	7	Marcus Adam	GBR	10.35
6	2	Pavel Galkin	EUN	10.37
7	1	Eric Akogyiram	GHA	10.68
8	8	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	10.77

Heat Two

Wind	-0.5 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	10.13	Q
2	3	Bruny Surin	CAN	10.24	Q
3	4	Vitaly Savin	EUN	10.33	Q
4	5	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	10.38	Q
5	2	John Myles-Mills	GHA	10.41
6	1	Stefan Burkart	SUI	10.57
7	7	Samuel Nchinda-Kaya	CMR	10.58
8	8	Patrick Stevens	BEL	10.69

Heat Three

Wind	-1.7 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.22	Q
2	4	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	10.22	Q	10
3	5	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	10.31	Q
4	2	Ray Stewart	JAM	10.36	Q
5	3	Satoru Inoue	JPN	10.50
6	7	Daniel Cojocaru	ROU	10.57
7	8	Daniel Sangouma	FRA	10.64		11
8	1	Giannis Zisimidis	CYP	10.65		12

Heat Four

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Linford Christie	GBR	10.07	Q
2	4	Leroy Burrell	USA	10.08	Q
3	5	Chidi Imoh	NGR	10.21	Q
4	8	Ben Johnson	CAN	10.30	Q	13
5	7	Sanusi Turay	SLE	10.40		14
6	2	Arnaldo Oliveira	BRA	10.47
7	3	Shinji Aoto	JPN	10.53
8	1	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	CIV	10.54		15

Semi-Finals (1 August 1992 — 18:35)

Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat One

Wind	-1.3 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Leroy Burrell	USA	9.97	Q
2	4	Linford Christie	GBR	10.00	Q
3	3	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.10	Q
4	8	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	10.23	Q
5	5	Chidi Imoh	NGR	10.30
6	2	Robson da Silva	BRA	10.32
7	7	Vitaly Savin	EUN	10.33
8	1	Ben Johnson	CAN	10.70

Heat Two

Wind	-1.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	10.17	Q	16
2	6	Bruny Surin	CAN	10.21	Q
3	4	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	10.28	Q
4	8	Ray Stewart	JAM	10.33	Q
5	2	Talal Mansour	QAT	10.34
6	7	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	10.34
7	1	Max Morinière	FRA	10.42
DNF	3	Mark Witherspoon	USA	–

Final (1 August 1992 — 20:00)

Wind	0.5 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	5	Linford Christie	GBR	9.96	0.139
2	3	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	10.02	0.138
3	4	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.04	0.143
4	1	Bruny Surin	CAN	10.09	0.124
5	6	Leroy Burrell	USA	10.10	0.165	17
6	8	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	10.12	0.183
7	2	Ray Stewart	JAM	10.22	0.134
8	7	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	10.26	0.172