1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres
These are the results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece.
Medalists
Results
Heats
First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 9 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals.
Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
001 !1 | 4 | Angelos Pavlakakis | Greece | 10.11 | Q, NR |
001 !1 | 6 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.11 | Q |
003 !3 | 7 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 10.12 | Q |
004 !4 | 5 | Michael Marsh | United States | 10.16 | Q |
004 !4 | 10 | Eric Nkansah | Nigeria | 10.16 | Q |
006 !6 | 4 | Donovan Bailey | Canada | 10.17 | Q |
007 !7 | 10 | Percival Spencer | Jamaica | 10.18 | Q |
008 !8 | 9 | Frankie Fredericks | Namibia | 10.21 | Q |
009 !9 | 10 | Darren Campbell | Great Britain | 10.21 | Q, SB |
011 !11 | 7 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 10.22 | Q |
011 !11 | 11 | Nobuharu Asahara | Japan | 10.22 | Q |
011 !11 | 12 | Robert Esmie | Canada | 10.22 | Q |
014 !14 | 12 | Davidson Ezinwa | Nigeria | 10.23 | Q |
015 !15 | 8 | Seun Ogunkoya | Nigeria | 10.24 | Q |
015 !15 | 12 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 10.24 | Q, SB |
017 !17 | 4 | Stefano Tilli | Italy | 10.25 | Q, SB |
017 !17 | 9 | Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy | Russia | 10.25 | Q, SB |
019 !19 | 4 | Marlon Devonish | Great Britain | 10.26 | q |
019 !19 | 7 | Aziz Zakari | Ghana | 10.26 | Q, PB |
019 !19 | 9 | Carlos Calado | Portugal | 10.26 | Q |
019 !19 | 11 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 10.26 | Q |
023 !23 | 1 | André da Silva | Brazil | 10.28 | Q |
023 !23 | 9 | Sergejs Inšakovs | Latvia | 10.28 | q, NR |
025 !25 | 5 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 10.30 | Q |
025 !25 | 10 | Yiannis Zisimides | Cyprus | 10.30 | q, SB |
027 !27 | 1 | Jean-Olivier Zirignon | Ivory Coast | 10.31 | Q |
028 !28 | 3 | Maurice Greene | United States | 10.32 | Q |
028 !28 | 3 | Peter Karlsson | Sweden | 10.32 | Q, SB |
028 !28 | 8 | Charalambos Papadias | Greece | 10.32 | Q |
028 !28 | 11 | Jone Delai | Fiji | 10.32 | Q |
028 !28 | 13 | Bruny Surin | Canada | 10.32 | Q |
033 !33 | 6 | Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda | Cuba | 10.33 | Q |
034 !34 | 4 | Renward Wells | Bahamas | 10.34 | q |
034 !34 | 4 | Martin Lachkovics | Austria | 10.34 | q, PB |
034 !34 | 11 | Donovan Powell | Jamaica | 10.34 | q |
037 !37 | 5 | Anninos Marcoullides | Cyprus | 10.35 | Q |
037 !37 | 7 | Sayon Cooper | Liberia | 10.35 | q |
039 !39 | 12 | Prodromos Katsantonis | Cyprus | 10.36 | q |
040 !40 | 2 | Marcin Krzywański | Poland | 10.37 | Q |
041 !41 | 2 | Andrey Fedoriv | Russia | 10.38 | Q |
041 !41 | 8 | Ryszard Pilarczyk | Poland | 10.38 | Q |
042 !42 | 2 | Stephane Cali | France | 10.39 | Q |
044 !44 | 10 | Hiroyasu Tsuchie | Japan | 10.40 | q |
045 !45 | 3 | Piotr Balcerzak | Poland | 10.41 | Q |
045 !45 | 12 | Augustine Nketia | New Zealand | 10.41 | |
047 !47 | 3 | Per Ivar Sivle | Norway | 10.42 | |
047 !47 | 6 | Ian Mackie | Great Britain | 10.42 | Q |
047 !47 | 7 | Ousmane Diarra | Mali | 10.42 | |
050 !50 | 1 | Chris Donaldson | New Zealand | 10.43 | Q |
050 !50 | 6 | Carlos Gats | Argentina | 10.43 | SB |
050 !50 | 11 | Chintake De Zoysa | Sri Lanka | 10.43 | |
050 !50 | 13 | Erik Wijmeersch | Belgium | 10.43 | Q |
054 !54 | 2 | Torbjorn Maartensson | Sweden | 10.46 | |
054 !54 | 5 | Koji Ito | Japan | 10.46 | |
056 !56 | 6 | Miguel Janssen | Aruba | 10.47 | |
057 !57 | 13 | Saad Al-Kuwari | Qatar | 10.48 | Q |
058 !58 | 1 | Carlton Chambers | Canada | 10.49 | |
058 !58 | 11 | Anvar Kuchmuradov | Uzbekistan | 10.49 | |
060 !60 | 6 | Ibrahim Meite | Ivory Coast | 10.50 | |
060 !60 | 8 | Issa-Aime Nthepe | Cameroon | 10.50 | |
060 !60 | 9 | Carlos Villasenor | Mexico | 10.50 | |
063 !63 | 1 | Paulo Neves | Portugal | 10.51 | |
064 !64 | 3 | Dennis Mowatt | Jamaica | 10.52 | |
064 !64 | 5 | Joseph Styles | Bahamas | 10.52 | |
066 !66 | 6 | Carlos Moreno | Chile | 10.53 | |
067 !67 | 7 | Frutos Feo | Spain | 10.54 | |
068 !68 | 12 | Ivan Šlehobr | Czech Republic | 10.55 | |
069 !69 | 13 | Juan Pedro Toledo | Mexico | 10.56 | |
070 !70 | 2 | Neil Ryan | Ireland | 10.57 | |
071 !71 | 5 | Alexandros Genovelis | Greece | 10.58 | |
072 !72 | 13 | Jose Illan | Spain | 10.60 | |
073 !73 | 2 | Tommy Kafri | Israel | 10.64 | |
073 !73 | 8 | Tomaž Božič | Slovenia | 10.64 | |
075 !75 | 8 | Horace Dove-Edwin | Sierra Leone | 10.65 | |
076 !76 | 4 | Ruslan Rusidze | Georgia | 10.67 | |
076 !76 | 5 | Wai Lok To | Hong Kong | 10.67 | |
078 !78 | 3 | Nigel Jones | Grenada | 10.68 | |
079 !79 | 2 | Patrick Mocci Raoumbe | Gabon | 10.69 | |
080 !80 | 7 | Lee Heyeong-Gum | South Korea | 10.73 | |
081 !81 | 3 | Antonio Serpas | El Salvador | 10.77 | |
081 !81 | 12 | Peter Pulu | Papua New Guinea | 10.77 | |
083 !83 | 1 | Pascal Dangbo | Benin | 10.78 | |
083 !83 | 3 | De-Von Bean | Bermuda | 10.78 | |
085 !85 | 9 | Gabriel Simon | Argentina | 10.79 | |
086 !86 | 7 | Mohd Mahbub Alam | Bangladesh | 10.83 | |
087 !87 | 1 | Toluta'u Koula | Tonga | 10.85 | |
088 !88 | 9 | Maocha Mpho | Botswana | 10.86 | |
089 !89 | 8 | Mario Bonello | Malta | 10.92 | |
089 !89 | 13 | Amarildo Almeida | Guinea-Bissau | 10.92 | |
091 !91 | 10 | Laurence Jack | Vanuatu | 10.97 | |
092 !92 | 12 | Trevor Davis | Angola | 11.07 | |
093 !93 | 13 | Huang Hsin-Ping | Chinese Taipei | 11.09 | |
094 !94 | 4 | Albert Shaw Elston | Belize | 11.13 | |
095 !95 | 8 | Mohamed Amir | Maldives | 11.18 | NR |
096 !96 | 10 | Detrickson Anson | Federated States of Micronesia | 11.47 | |
097 !97 | 1 | Watson Nyambek | Malaysia | 11.60 | |
098 !98 | 2 | Nelson Kabitana | Solomon Islands | 11.61 | |
099 !99 | 11 | Norberto Nsue Ondo | Equatorial Guinea | 11.65 | |
100 | 11 | Daniel Adachi | Palau | 11.90 | |
101 | 5 | Kim Collins | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 21.73 | |
998 ! | 9 | Venancio José | Spain | 99.98 !DQ | |
999 ! | 10 | Igor Strakh | Ukraine | 99.99 !DNF | |
Quarterfinals
First 2 of each Heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.
Semifinals
First 4 of each Semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.
Final
References