Final Wind 0.0m/s | time | age | 1. Hasely Crawford | TRI | 10.06s | 25 | 2. Don Quarrie | JAM | 10.08s | 25 | 3. Valeriy Borzov | URS | 10.14s | 26 | 4. Harvey Glance | USA | 10.19s | 19 | 5. Gay Abrahams | PAN | 10.25s | 23 | 6. John Jones | USA | 10.27s | 18 | 7. Klaus-Dieter Kurrat | GDR | 10.31s | 21 | 8. Petar Petrov | BUL | 10.35s | 21 |
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World and Olympic Record: 9.95s Jim Hines, United States Mexico City, Mexico October 14, 1968 |
The favourites were Borzov – attempting to retain his title (the first to
try this since Percy Williams) – Quarrie, Crawford and the three
Americans. Only Glance and Crawford managed more than one run
below 10.30 before the final, with Crawford and Quarrie trying to psy-
che each other out in their semi-final.
In the final Glance and Crawford started fastest, then Glance was
caught by Quarrie and Borzov before halfway. Quarrie edged away, but
could not see Crawford (lane 1) who was half a metre clear at the 80m
mark. Quarrie’s official time was 10.08, but a later re-read of the photo
showed that the correct time was 10.07. Crawford, the biggest of all
100m winners at 1.90/87kg, never again ran quicker than 10.19. He
won his country’s first ever gold medal and a jet airliner there was
named after him.
Heat 1 | time | 1. Harvey Glance | USA | 10.24s | 2. Valeriy Borzov | URS | 10.30s | 3. K. Dieter Kurrat | GDR | 10.30s | 4. Gay A Abrahams | PAN | 10.37s | 5. Marvin Nash | CAN | 10.52s | 6. Ainsley Armstrong | TRI | 10.52s | 7. Ruy Da Silva | BRA | 10.54s | 8. Marian Woronin | POL | 10.69s |
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Heat 2 | time | 1. Hasely Crawford | TRI | 10.22s | 2. Donald Quarrie | JAM | 10.26s | 3. John Jones | USA | 10.30s | 4. Petar Petrov | BUL | 10.30s | 5. Steven Riddick | USA | 10.33s | 6. Meite Amadou | CIV | 10.46s | 7. Alexander Aksinin | URS | 10.50s | 8. Alexander Thieme | GDR | 10.50s |
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Quarter 1 | time | 1. Donald Quarrie | JAM | 10.33s | 2. Steven Riddick | USA | 10.36s | 3. Marvin Nash | CAN | 10.48s | 4. Alexander Aksinin | URS | 10.55s | 5. Dennis Trott | BER | 10.64s | 6. Anat Ratanapol | THA | 10.65s | 7. Luciano Caravani | ITA | 10.81s | 8. Gilles Echevin | FRA | 12.00s |
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Quarter 2 | time | 1. Gay A Abrahams | PAN | 10.35s | 2. John Jones | USA | 10.46s | 3. Alexander Thieme | GDR | 10.50s | 4. Marian Woronin | POL | 10.53s | 5. Silvio Leonard | CUB | 10.59s | 6. Sammy Monsels | SUR | 10.61s | 7. Colin Bradford | JAM | 10.62s | 8. Christer Garpenborg | SWE | 10.63s |
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Quarter 3 | time | 1. Hasely Crawford | TRI | 10.29s | 2. Valeriy Borzov | URS | 10.39s | 3. Meite Amadou | CIV | 10.45s | 4. Ruy Da Silva | BRA | 10.57s | 5. Andrzej Swierczynski | POL | 10.59s | 6. Adama Fall | SEN | 10.60s | 7. Klaus-D Bieler | FRG | 10.80s | -.Michael Sands | BAH | DNS |
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Quarter 4 | time | 1. Harvey Glance | USA | 10.23s | 2. K. Dieter Kurrat | GDR | 10.29s | 3. Petar Petrov | BUL | 10.30s | 4. Ainsley Armstrong | TRI | 10.46s | 5. Francisco Gomez | CUB | 10.49s | 6. Zenon Licznerski | POL | 10.52s | 7. Dieter Steinmann | FRG | 10.67s | -.Yuriy Silov | URS | DNS |
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Heat 1 | time | 1. Hasely Crawford | TRI | 10.42s | 2. Alexander Thieme | GDR | 10.64s | 3. Luciano Caravani | ITA | 10.66s | 4. Micha Lambert | BEL | 10.69s | 5. Gregory Simons | BER | 10.76s | 6. Bjarni Stefansson | ISL | 11.28s | -.Wavala Kali | NGY | DNS | -.Robert Martin | CAN | DNS |
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Heat 2 | time | 1. John Jones | USA | 10.43s | 2. Meite Amadou | CIV | 10.53s | 3. Ainsley Armstrong | TRI | 10.59s | 4. Michael Sharpe | BER | 10.70s | 5. Dominique Chauvelot | FRA | 10.79s | 6. Mohammed Sehly | ARS | 11.10s | 7. Werner Bastians | FRG | 11.17s | 8. Armando Padilla | NCA | 11.52s |
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Heat 3 | time | 1. Petar Petrov | BUL | 10.46s | 2. Zenon Licznerski | POL | 10.60s | 3. Ruy Da Silva | BRA | 10.61s | 4. Christer Garpenborg | SWE | 10.64s | 5. J. Claude Amoureux | FRA | 10.75s | 6. Abdulkareem Alawad | KUW | 11.27s | 7. Ayoub Bodaghi | IRN | 11.39s |
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Heat 4 | time | 1. Donald Quarrie | JAM | 10.38s | 2. Gay A Abrahams | PAN | 10.40s | 3. Marvin Nash | CAN | 10.59s | 4. Michael Sands | BAH | 10.65s | 5. Dennis Trott | BER | 10.67s | 6. Peter Fitzgerald | AUS | 10.87s | 7. Ronald Russell | ISV | 11.22s |
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Heat 5 | time | 1. Harvey Glance | USA | 10.37s | 2. Marian Woronin | POL | 10.56s | 3. Alexander Aksinin | URS | 10.60s | 4. Colin Bradford | JAM | 10.64s | 5. Pedro Ferrer | PUR | 10.76s | 6. Vassilio Papageorgopoulos | GRE | 10.82s | 7. Leonard Jervis | BAH | 10.87s |
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Heat 6 | time | 1. K. Dieter Kurrat | GDR | 10.37s | 2. Valeriy Borzov | URS | 10.53s | 3. Dieter Steinmann | FRG | 10.68s | 4. Francisco Gomez | CUB | 10.68s | 5. Barka Sy | SEN | 10.81s | 6. Masahide Jinno | JPN | 10.94s | 7. Colin Thurton | BIZ | 11.03s |
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Heat 7 | time | 1. Steven Riddick | USA | 10.43s | 2. Andrzej Swierczynski | POL | 10.62s | 3. Adama Fall | SEN | 10.72s | 4. Suchart Jairsuraparp | THA | 10.75s | 5. Roland Bombardella | LUX | 10.76s | 6. Clive Sands | BAH | 10.82s | 7. Philippe Etienne | HAI | 11.05s |
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Heat 8 | time | 1. Gilles Echevin | FRA | 10.53s | 2. Klaus-D Bieler | FRG | 10.58s | 3. Anat Ratanapol | THA | 10.71s | 4. Hermes Ramirez | CUB | 10.72s | 5. Momar Ndao | SEN | 10.74s | 6. Ramli Ahmad | MAL | 10.98s | -.Rene Mberinguerer | CAF | DNS |
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Heat 9 | time | 1. Sammy Monsels | SUR | 10.58s | 2. Silvio Leonard | CUB | 10.62s | 3. Yuriy Silov | URS | 10.70s | 4. Chris Brathwaite | TRI | 10.71s | 5. Endre Lepold | HUN | 10.82s | 6. Pearson Jordan | BAR | 10.95s | 7. Antony Moore | FIJ | 11.16s |
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