Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 100 metres

Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade
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
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 100 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 8 and 9 September 1979.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mike Roberson  United States	Leszek Dunecki  Poland	Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain

Results[]

Heats[]

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Wind:
Heat 2: +0.7 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mike Roberson	United States	10.08	Q, =UR
2	7	Nelson Rocha dos Santos	Brazil	10.22	Q
3	7	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	10.23	Q
4	1	Mel Lattany	United States	10.25	Q
5	3	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.28	Q
6	3	Pascal Barré	France	10.32	Q
6	4	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.32	Q[3]
8	7	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.33	Q
9	1		South Korea	10.34	Q
10	7	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	10.34	q
11	6	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.35	Q
12	5	Luciano Caravani	Italy	10.40	Q[4]
13	5	Théophile Nkounkou	Ivory Coast	10.41	Q
13	7	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	10.41	q, NR
15	5	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.42	Q
16	1	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	10.45	Q
17	4		France	10.47	Q
18	4	Milton de Castro	Brazil	10.48	Q
19	2		Japan	10.50	Q
19	6		Switzerland	10.50	Q
21	2		Poland	10.52	Q
22	6	István Nagy	Hungary	10.55	Q
23	1		Canada	10.56	q
24	5		Switzerland	10.57
25	6	Tomás González	Cuba	10.58
26	1		Japan	10.59
27	7		Angola	10.63
28	4		Senegal	10.67
28	6	Jean-Pierre Bassegela	Congo	10.67
30	6	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	10.69
31	1	Adille Sumariwalla	India	10.72
31	7		Canada	10.72
33	7		Mexico	10.78
34	2		Cyprus	10.80
35	3		Senegal	10.83	Q
35	4		Madagascar	10.83
37	3		Iceland	10.84
38	2		Madagascar	10.89
39	4		Guatemala	10.98
40	4		Mexico	10.98
41	3	Sheikh Omar Faye	Gambia	11.05
41	5		Portugal	11.05

Semifinals[]

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s, Heat 3: +0.6 m/s^[2][5]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mike Roberson	United States	10.07	Q, UR
2	3	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	10.21	Q
3	3	Luciano Caravani	Italy	10.23	Q
4	1	Théophile Nkounkou	Ivory Coast	10.28	Q
4	2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.28	Q
4	3	Mel Lattany	United States	10.28	q
7	1	Pascal Barré	France	10.29	q
8	2	Nelson Rocha dos Santos	Brazil	10.33	Q
9	3	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.34
10	3	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	10.35
11	2	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.40
12	1	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.41	[3]
13	1		South Korea	10.43
13	3	Milton de Castro	Brazil	10.43
15	1		Switzerland	10.44
16	2	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.44
17	2	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	10.45
18	1	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	10.46
19	1	István Nagy	Hungary	10.53
20	2		Canada	10.56
21	2		Japan	10.59
22	2		France	10.62
23	3		Senegal	10.79
	3		Poland	?

Final[]

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Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mike Roberson	United States	10.19
	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.30
	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	10.38
4	Pascal Barré	France	10.40
5	Théophile Nkounkou	Ivory Coast	10.41
6	Luciano Caravani	Italy	10.46
7	Mel Lattany	United States	10.50
	Nelson Rocha dos Santos	Brazil	DNS

References[]