Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
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| Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
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| Venue | Wembley Stadium London, England |
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| Dates | 30 July 1948 (heats, quarterfinals) 31 July 1948 (semifinals, final) |
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| Competitors | 63 from 33 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 10.3 seconds | ||||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics  |
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | |||
| 800 m | men | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 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 | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 10 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Decathlon | men | |||
The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, England, we held at Wembley Stadium on 30 and 31 July. The final was won by American Harrison Dillard, in a photo finish. This was the first time a photo finish camera was used at an Olympic Games.[1]
Contents
Results
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time (hand) | Notes |
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Harrison Dillard |  United States |
10.3 | =OR |
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Barney Ewell | United States |
10.4 | |
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Lloyd LaBeach |  Panama |
10.6 | |
| 4 | Alastair McCorquodale |  Great Britain |
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| 5 | Mel Patton | United States |
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| 6 | McDonald Bailey | Great Britain |
Key: =OR = Equalled Olympic record
Preliminaries
Heats
The fastest two runners in each of the twelve heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barney Ewell | United States |
10.5 | |
| 2 | Alastair McCorquodale | Great Britain |
10.5 | |
| 3 | Les Laing |  Jamaica |
11.0 | |
| 4 | Angel García |  Cuba |
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| 5 | Nestor Jacono |  Malta |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mel Patton | United States |
10.6 | |
| 2 | Ivan Hausen |  Brazil |
10.9 | |
| 3 | Jim O'Brien | 23x15px Canada | 10.9 | |
| 4 | Fernando Lapuente |  Argentina |
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| 5 | Hector Gosset |  Belgium |
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| 6 | Guillermo Rodríguez |  Mexico |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lloyd LaBeach | Panama |
10.7 | |
| 2 | Béla Goldoványi |  Hungary |
11.0 | |
| 3 | Frank Mahoney | 23x15px Bermuda | 11.8 |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan López |  Uruguay |
10.5 | |
| 2 | Ken Jones | Great Britain |
10.6 | |
| 3 | Jan Meijer |  Netherlands |
11.0 | |
| 4 | Máximo Reyes |  Peru |
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| 5 | Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson |  Iceland |
Heat five
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrison Dillard | United States |
10.4 | |
| 2 | Aroldo da Silva | Brazil |
10.6 | |
| 3 | Peter Bloch |  Norway |
11.1 | |
| 4 | Pol Braekman | Belgium |
Heat six
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | McDonald Bailey | Great Britain |
10.5 | |
| 2 | Haukur Clausen | Iceland |
11.0 | |
| 3 | Abram van Heerden | 23x15px South Africa | 11.1 | |
| 4 | Carlos Silva |  Chile |
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| 5 | Bernabe Lovina | 23x15px Philippines | ||
| 6 | Stanley Lines | 23x15px Bermuda |
Heat seven
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Treloar |  Australia |
10.5 | |
| 2 | René Valmy |  France |
10.8 | |
| 3 | György Csányi | Hungary |
11.1 | |
| 4 | Carlos Isaac | Argentina |
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| 5 | Sayed Moukhtar | 23x15px Egypt | ||
| 6 | Ali Salman |  Iraq |
Heat eight
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Rafael Fortún | Cuba |
10.7 | |
| 2 | John Bartram | Australia |
10.8 | |
| 3 | Basil McKenzie | Jamaica |
10.8 | |
| 4 | Hélio da Silva | Brazil |
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| 5 | Jo Zwaan | Netherlands |
Heat nine
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Morris Curotta | Australia |
10.7 | |
| 2 | Gerardo Bönnhoff | Argentina |
10.8 | |
| 3 | Raúl Mazorra | Cuba |
11.1 | |
| 4 | Örn Clausen | Iceland |
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| 5 | Raşit Östaş |  Turkey |
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| - | Perry Johnson | 23x15px Bermuda | DQ |
Heat ten
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | George Lewis | 23x15px Trinidad and Tobago | 10.8 | |
| 2 | Ted Haggis | 23x15px Canada | 10.9 | |
| 3 | Walter Pérez | Uruguay |
11.0 | |
| 4 | Santiago Ferrando | Peru |
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| 5 | Stefanos Petrakis |  Greece |
Heat eleven
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Isidoor Van De Wiele | Belgium |
10.8 | |
| 2 | António Morais |  Portugal |
10.9 | |
| 3 | Alberto Labarthe | Chile |
11.0 | |
| 4 | Muhammad Sharif Butt |  Pakistan |
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| 5 | Charles Thompson |  Guyana |
Heat twelve
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Mario Fayos | Uruguay |
11.0 | |
| 2 | Eric Prabhakar |  India |
11.0 | |
| 3 | László Bartha | Hungary |
11.1 | |
| 4 | Jan Kleyn | Netherlands |
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| 5 | Kemal Aksur | Turkey |
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| 6 | Maung Sein Pe | 23x15px Burma | ||
| - | Étienne Bally | France |
DNF |
Quarterfinals
The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Harrison Dillard | United States |
10.4 | |
| 2 | Juan López | Uruguay |
10.6 | |
| 3 | Ken Jones | Great Britain |
10.7 | |
| 4 | Ivan Hausen | Brazil |
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| 5 | Ted Haggis | 23x15px Canada | ||
| 6 | António Morais | Portugal |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Barney Ewell | United States |
10.5 | |
| 2 | McDonald Bailey | Great Britain |
10.6 | |
| 3 | Morris Curotta | Australia |
10.8 | |
| 4 | George Lewis | 23x15px Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| 5 | Béla Goldoványi | Hungary |
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| 6 | Haukur Clausen | Iceland |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Mel Patton | United States |
10.4 | |
| 2 | Alastair McCorquodale | Great Britain |
10.5 | |
| 3 | John Bartram | Australia |
10.6 | |
| 4 | René Valmy | France |
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| 5 | Mario Fayos | Uruguay |
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| 6 | Isidoor Van De Wiele | Belgium |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Lloyd LaBeach | Panama |
10.5 | |
| 2 | John Treloar | Australia |
10.5 | |
| 3 | Rafael Fortún | Cuba |
10.6 | |
| 4 | Aroldo da Silva | Brazil |
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| 5 | Gerardo Bönnhoff | Argentina |
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| 6 | Eric Prabhakar | India |
Semifinals
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrison Dillard | United States |
10.5 | |
| 2 | Barney Ewell | United States |
10.5 | |
| 3 | Alastair McCorquodale | Great Britain |
10.7 | |
| 4 | John Bartram | Australia |
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| 5 | Juan López | Uruguay |
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| 6 | Morris Curotta | Australia |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Mel Patton | United States |
10.4 | |
| 2 | Lloyd LaBeach | Panama |
10.5 | |
| 3 | McDonald Bailey | Great Britain |
10.6 | |
| 4 | John Treloar | Australia |
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| 5 | Rafael Fortún | Cuba |
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| 6 | Ken Jones | Great Britain |
Key: =OR = Equalled Olympic record; DNF = Did not finish; DQ = Disqualified
References
External links
- 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-02.
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