Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Men's 100 metres

Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 100 metres event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 21 and 22 July 1981.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mel Lattany  United States	Calvin Smith  United States	Ernest Obeng  Ghana

Results[]

Heats[]

Wind:
Heat 1: -1.9 m/s, Heat 2: +1.9 m/s, Heat 3: -0.4 m/s, Heat 4: ? m/s, Heat 5: +2.1 m/s, Heat 6: +0.7 m/s, Heat 7: ? m/s^{[1] [2]}

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mel Lattany	United States	10.40	Q
2	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	10.81	Q
3	1		Japan	10.97	Q
1	2	Ernest Obeng	Ghana	10.62	Q
2	2	Paul Narracott	Australia	10.69	Q[3]
3	2		Algeria	10.89	Q
1	3		France	10.65	Q[4]
2	3	Tomás González	Cuba	10.66	Q
3	3	José Carbonell	Spain	10.82	Q
1	4	V. Sclever	Romania	10.73	Q
2	4	Jesús Cabrera	Puerto Rico	10.76	Q
3	4	Nayara	Brazil	10.80	Q
1	5	Calvin Smith	United States	10.29	Q
2	5	Nikolay Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.38	Q
3	5	László Babály	Hungary	10.66	Q
1	6	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo	10.55	Q
2	6		Italy	10.73	Q
3	6	Javier Martínez	Spain	10.75	Q
6	6	Don Wright	Australia	11.25	[3]
1	7	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.66	Q
2	7		Italy	10.75	Q
3	7	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.76	Q
4	?		France	10.81	q, +0.3[4]

Semifinals[]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.8 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s, Heat 3: -0.6 m/s^[1][5]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Calvin Smith	United States	10.21	Q
2	1		France	10.52	Q[4]
5	1	Javier Martínez	Spain	10.69	[6]
1	2	Ernest Obeng	Ghana	10.36	Q
2	2	Nikolay Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.43	Q
3	2	István Nagy	Hungary	10.49	q
4	2	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.50	q
7	2		France	10.77	[4]
1	3	Mel Lattany	United States	10.19	Q
2	3	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo	10.46	Q
3	3	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.61	[7]
5	3	Paul Narracott	Australia	10.70	[3]
6	3	José Carbonell	Spain	10.72	[6]

Final[]

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Wind: -0.5 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mel Lattany	United States	10.18
	Calvin Smith	United States	10.26
	Ernest Obeng	Ghana	10.37
4	Nikolay Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.40
5	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo	10.45
6	István Nagy	Hungary	10.45
7		France	10.51
8	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.54

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