Men 100m Athletics I Olympic Games Athens, Greece 1896 - Friday, 10th April (29th March) - Gold Medal: Thomas Burke, United States
Finaltime
1. Thomas BurkeUSA United States12.0s
2. Fritz HofmannGeR Germany12.2s
3. Francis LaneUSA United States12.6s
4. Alajos SzokolyiHUN Hungary12.6s
5. Alexandros ChalkokondylisGRe Greece12.6s
-. Thomas CurtisUSA United StatesDNS

world Men 100m History

Venue: Panathenaic Stadium 40,000. 16 competitors from 9 nations.
Heats
World record: 10.8s
Luther Cary, Paris, France, July 4, 1891
Cecil Lee, Brussels (BEL), September 25, 1892
Étienne De Re, Brussels (BEL), August 4, 1893
L. Atcherley, Frankfurt/Main (GER), April 13, 1895
Harry Beaton, Rotterdam (NED), August 28, 1895
In front of 40,000 people in the stadium, and thousands more looking on from the hills above, Francis Lane of Princeton won the first heat in 12.2. This was the first competition in the Olympics since their denoue- ment in 393 AD. Thomas Curtis (12.2) and Thomas Burke (11.8) won the other heats. Curtis, focusing on the 110m hurdles, did not turn out for the final. Burke and Hofmann were drawn next to each other in lanes 4 and 5, and were level until 50m, when Burke drew away to win by about one- and-a-half metres. Wind and track surface conditions were unhelpful; note that Lane later placed fourth in the US Championships 100y in 10.5e, three yards behind the world’s number one Bernie Wefers. A head-on shot of the finish suggests that Lane may have beaten Szokolyi for third place.

Heats - Monday, 6th April (25th March)

First 2 from each Heat advanced to Final.

Heat 1

Rankingtime
1. Francis LaneUSA United States12.2sQ
2. Alajos SzokolyiHUN Hungary12.8sQ
3. Charles GmelinGBR Great Britain12.9s
4. Adolphe GriselFRA FranceUnknown
5. Kurt DoerryGER GermanyUnknown
-. Leonidasz MannoHUN HungaryDNS
-. Luis SubercaseauxCHI ChileDNS

Heat 2

Rankingtime
1. Thomas CurtisUSA United States12.2sQ
2. Alexandros ChalkokondylisGRe Greece12.8sQ
3. Launceston ElliotGBR Great Britain12.9s
4. Eugen SchmidtDEN DenmarkUnknown
5. George MarshallGBR Great BritainUnknown
-. Alexandre TuffèreFRA FranceDNS
-. UnknownFrance or HungaryDNS

Heat 3

Rankingtime
1. Thomas BurkeUSA United States11.8sQ.
2. Fritz HofmannGER Germany12.6sQ.
3. Friedrich TraunGER Germany13.5s
4-5. Georgios GennimatasGRe GreeceUnknown
4-5. Henrik SjöbergSWE SwedenUnknown
-. Alfred FlatowGER GermanyDNS
-. Konstantinos MouratisGRe GreeceDNS
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