Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

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Men's 100 metres
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Georg Lammers, Percy Williams, Jack London 1928.jpg
Georg Lammers, Percy Williams and Jack London
VenueOlympic Stadium
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates29 July 1928 (heats, quarterfinals)
30 July 1928 (semifinals, final)
Competitors76 from 32 nations
Winning time10.8 seconds
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Percy Williams  Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jack London  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Georg Lammers  Germany
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The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, were held at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday, 29 July and Monday, 30 July. Eighty-one runners entered, though ultimately seventy-six runners from 32 nations competed.[1] NOCs were limited to 4 competitors each.[2] The event was won by Percy Williams of Canada, taking the nation's first men's 100 metres gold medal. Jack London of Great Britain took silver, marking the third consecutive Games that Great Britain had a medalist in the event. Georg Lammers won bronze, Germany's first medal in the event since 1896. For the first time in modern Olympic history, the United States won no medals in the event.

Background[]

This was the eighth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. None of the 1924 finalists competed (bronze medalist Arthur Porritt entered, but did not start). Notable entrants included Frank Wykoff, winner of the U.S. Olympic trials and by default one of the favorites in a field that was "considered to be wide-open"; Great Britain's Jack London, and Germany's Georg Lammers.[3]

Cuba, Lithuania, and Romania were represented in the event for the first time. The United States was the only nation to have appeared at each of the first eight Olympic men's 100 metres events.

Competition format[]

The event retained the four round format from 1920 and 1924: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. There were 16 heats, of 3–6 athletes each, with the top 2 in each heat advancing to the quarterfinals. The 32 quarterfinalists were placed into 6 heats of 5 or 6 athletes. Again, the top 2 advanced. There were 2 heats of 6 semifinalists, this time with the top 3 advancing to the 6-man final.[3]

Records[]

These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record 10.4 United States Charlie Paddock Redlands, California (USA) April 23, 1921
Olympic Record 10.6 United States Donald Lippincott Stockholm (SWE) July 6, 1912
10.6 United Kingdom Harold Abrahams Paris (FRA) July 6/7 1924

Percy Williams equalized the standing Olympic record with 10.6 seconds in the fourth heat of the second round. In the first semifinal, Williams, Robert McAllister, and Wilfred Legg all equalized the record.

Results[]

First Round[]

Sixteen heats were held, the two fastest of each qualified for the second round.

Heat 1[]

Heat 1: Willy Dujardin, Wilhelm Hennings, Angelos Lamprou, John Fitzpatrick, Richard Corts
Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 John Fitzpatrick  Canada 11.0 Q
2 Richard Corts  Germany 11.0 Q
3 Willy Dujardin  Belgium 11.2
4 Wilhelm Hennings  Netherlands 11.4
5 Angelos Lambrou  Greece 11.4

Heat 2[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Sydney Atkinson  South Africa 11.2 Q
2 André Mourlon  France 11.3 Q
3 Jesús Moraila  Mexico Unknown
4 Franco Reyser  Italy Unknown
— Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichmann  Germany DNS

Heat 3[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Frank Wykoff  United States 11.0 Q
2 Paul Brochart  Belgium Unknown Q
3 Jaap Boot  Netherlands Unknown(*)
4 Mario Gómez Daza  Mexico Unknown
5 Konstantinos Petridis  Greece Unknown
6 Fernando Muñagorri  Spain Unknown

(*) Some sources credit the third place to Gómez Daza and list Boot in fourth. (The official report did not show the ranking.)

Heat 4[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Ferenc Gerő  Hungary 10.8 Q
2 Aubrey Burton-Durham  South Africa Unknown Q
3 Willy Weibel  Switzerland 11.4
4 Diego Ordóñez  Spain 11.4
5 John Heap  Great Britain Unknown
6 Eduardo Albe  Argentina Unknown

Heat 5[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Jack London  Great Britain 10.8 Q
2 George Hester  Canada Unknown Q
3 Ladislau Peter  Romania Unknown
4 Francisco Costas  Mexico Unknown
5 Mehmet Ali Aybar  Turkey Unknown

Heat 6[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Juan Bautista Pina  Argentina 11.0 Q
2 Ralph Adams  Canada Unknown Q
3 Edgardo Toetti  Italy Unknown
4 Iwao Aizawa  Japan Unknown
5 Semih Türkdoğan  Turkey Unknown

Heat 7[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Wilfred Legg  South Africa 11.0 Q
2 Cyril Gill  Great Britain 11.0 Q
3 Rodolfo Wagner  Chile Unknown
— Sándor Hajdú  Hungary DNS
— Giuseppe Castelli  Italy DNS

Heat 8[]

Heat 8: Hubert Houben, Karel Kněnický, Johannes Viljoen
Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Hubert Houben  Germany 11.0 Q
2 Johannes Viljoen  South Africa 11.0 Q
3 Karel Kněnický  Czechoslovakia 11.3
4 Dolf Benz  Netherlands 11.4

Heat 9[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Georg Lammers  Germany 10.8 Q
2 André Théard  Haiti Unknown Q
3 János Paizs  Hungary Unknown
4 Leo Jørgensen  Denmark Unknown
5 Jean Moulin  Luxembourg Unknown
6 Renos Frangoudis  Greece Unknown

Heat 10[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Walter Rangeley  Great Britain 11.0 Q
2 Rinus van den Berge  Netherlands 11.1 Q
3 Johann Bartl  Czechoslovakia Unknown
4 Şinasi Şahingiray  Turkey Unknown

Heat 11[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 István Raggambi  Hungary 11.0 Q
2 Jimmy Carlton  Australia 11.1 Q
3 Alberto Barucco  Argentina Unknown
4 Óscar Alvarado  Chile Unknown
5 Juan Serrahima  Spain Unknown
6 Ronald Burns  India Unknown

Heat 12[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Percy Williams  Canada 11.0 Q
2 Jaroslav Vykoupil  Czechoslovakia Unknown Q
3 André Dufau  France Unknown
4 José de Lima  Portugal Unknown
5 Haris Šveminas  Lithuania Unknown

Heat 13[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 José Barrientos  Cuba 11.0 Q
2 André Cerbonney  France Unknown Q
3 Fred Zinner  Belgium Unknown
- Arthur Porritt  New Zealand DNS

Heat 14[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Claude Bracey  United States 11.0 Q
2 Gilbert Auvergne  France 11.1 Q
3 Hermann Geißler  Austria 11.2
4 Risto Mattila  Finland 11.3
5 Emmanuel Goldsmith  Switzerland 11.5
6 George Schmit  Luxembourg 12.2

Heat 15[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Henry Russell  United States 11.0 Q
2 Denis Cussen  Ireland Unknown Q
3 Willy Tschopp  Switzerland Unknown
4 Adolphe Groscol  Belgium Unknown

Heat 16[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Bob McAllister  United States 10.8 Q
2 Anselmo Gonzaga  Philippines Unknown Q
3 Enrique de Chávarri  Spain Unknown
4 Frédéric Eyschen  Luxembourg Unknown
5  Turkey DNS

Quarterfinals[]

Six heats were held, the two fastest of each qualified for the semifinals.

Quarterfinal 1[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Wilfred Legg  South Africa 10.8 Q
2 John Fitzpatrick  Canada Unknown Q
3 Ferenc Gerő  Hungary Unknown
4 Rinus van den Berge  Netherlands Unknown
5 Denis Cussen  Ireland Unknown
6 Jaroslav Vykoupil  Czechoslovakia Unknown

Quarterfinal 2[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Robert McAllister  United States 10.8 Q
2 Richard Corts  Germany 11.0 Q
3 Cyril Gill  Great Britain Unknown
4 István Raggambi  Hungary Unknown
5 Aubrey Burton-Durham  South Africa Unknown
6 André Cerbonney  France Unknown

Quarterfinal 3[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Henry Russell  United States 10.8 Q
2 Hubert Houben  Germany Unknown Q
3 Gilbert Auvergne  France Unknown
4 George Hester  Canada Unknown
5 Sydney Atkinson  South Africa Unknown

Quarterfinal 4[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Percy Williams  Canada 10.6 Q, =OR
2 Jack London  Great Britain 10.8 Q
3 André Théard  Haiti Unknown
4 André Mourlon  France Unknown
5 José Barrientos  Cuba Unknown

Quarterfinal 5[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Frank Wykoff  United States 10.8 Q
2 Juan Bautista Pina  Argentina Unknown Q
3 Johannes Viljoen  South Africa Unknown
4 Anselmo Gonzaga  Philippines Unknown
5 Jimmy Carlton  Australia 11.0

Quarterfinal 6[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Claude Bracey  United States 10.8 Q
2 Georg Lammers  Germany Unknown Q
3 Walter Rangeley  Great Britain Unknown
4 Ralph Adams  Canada Unknown
5 Paul Brochart  Belgium Unknown

Semifinals[]

Two semifinals were held, the three fastest of each qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Robert McAllister  United States 10.6 Q, =OR
2 Percy Williams  Canada 10.6 Q, =OR
3 Wilfred Legg  South Africa 10.6 Q. =OR
4 Hubert Houben  Germany 10.7
5 Claude Bracey  United States 10.8
6 Juan Bautista Pina  Argentina 11.0

Semifinal 2[]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Jack London  Great Britain 10.6 Q, =OR
2 Georg Lammers  Germany 10.7 Q
3 Frank Wykoff  United States 10.7 Q
4 Henry Russell  United States 10.8
5 Richard Corts  Germany 10.8
6 John Fitzpatrick  Canada 10.9

Final[]

There were two false starts, by Legg and Wykoff. Once the final successfully started, Williams took the early lead and never relinquished it.[3]

Rank Athlete Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Percy Williams  Canada 10.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jack London  Great Britain 10.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Georg Lammers  Germany 10.9
4 Frank Wykoff  United States 11.0
5 Wilfred Legg  South Africa 11.0
6 Robert McAllister  United States 11.0

References[]

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's 100 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 374.
  3. ^ a b c "100 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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