Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Introduction ''' Official Video Highlights'''The '''men's 100 metres''' was an event at the '''1960 Summer Olympics''' in Rome, Italy. The competition was held at the Olympic Stadium on 31 August and 1 September. Sixty-five competitors from 48 nations entered, but 61 competitors from 45 nations participated. Nations were limited to three athletes each under rules set at the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Armin Hary of the United Team of Germany, breaking the United States's streak of five straight wins and earning the first Olympic title by a German runner in the event (Fritz Hofmann had taken second in 1896).
Summary Since winning the 1958 European Championship, Armin Hary was a known commodity. His incredible reaction time supposedly had been clocked using high speed cameras at .03 of a second, while normal humans react from .15 upward. Some of his competitors thought he was using some sort of trickery.Along with Enrique Figuerola asking for a pause, the proceedings to start this 10 second race took 20 minutes. Hary's incredible reaction to the gun and sprint form through the acceleration phase has been studied for generations, needless to say it put him in the lead, on the outside of the track in lane 6, putting nearly a 2-metre gap on Peter Radford to his inside. Dave Sime was the slowest out of the blocks with a deficit to make up across the track from Hary in lane 1.But make up the deficit he did, gaining with every step, passing the field by 70 metres and gaining until he was virtually running stride for stride against Hary at the line. Hary held Sime off, leaning at the tape to take the gold. With the fastest closing speed over the last 20 metres, Radford made up a big gap, to take the slight edge over Figueola and Frank Budd all finishing together.Later, as a professor of sports science, Radford said he thinks he figured out the "tell" Hary used to anticipate the gun.Hary ran representing the United Team of Germany, a combined team of German athletes from East and West Germany.
Background This was the fourteenth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896.Manfred Germar, 5th place in 1956, was the only finalist from the Melbourne Games to return in 1960.Notable entrants, along with Hary and Germar, were Americans Ray Norton (U.S. Olympic trial champion), Dave Sime, and Frank Budd, and Canada's Harry Jerome (who shared the world record with Hary at 10 seconds flat).The British West Indies, Fiji, Kenya, Morocco, South Korea, and Sudan were represented in the event for the first time. The United States was the only nation to have appeared at each of the first fourteen Olympic men's 100 metres events.
Competition format The event retained the same basic four round format from 1920–1956: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. However, the format was tweaked for the first time since 1936.The number of heats was reduced from 12 to 9 (with six or seven athletes per heat), with the number of runners advancing from each heat increased from 2 to 3.This led to 27 quarterfinalists (up from 24), so the 4 quarterfinal heats were now unbalanced: one had 6 athletes while the other three had 7.As before, however, the top 3 in each quarterfinal advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 heats of 6 semifinalists, once again with the top 3 advancing to the 6-man final.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. '''World record''' 10.0  Armin Hary Zürich, Switzerland 21 June 1960 10.0  Harry Jerome Saskatoon, Canada 15 July 1960 '''Olympic record''' 10.3  Eddie Tolan Los Angeles, USA 1 August 1932 10.3  Ralph Metcalfe Los Angeles, USA 1 August 1932 10.3  Jesse Owens Berlin, Germany 2 August 1936 10.3  Harrison Dillard London, United Kingdom 31 July, 1948 10.3  Bobby Morrow Melbourne, Australia 23 November 1956 10.3  Ira Murchison Melbourne, Australia 23 November 1956 10.3  Bobby Morrow Melbourne, Australia 24 November 1956Armin Hary broke the 28-year-old Olympic record with a 10.2 second run in the quarterfinals. He (along with Dave Sime) matched that 10.2 second result in the final.
Results ===Heats===The top three runners in each of the 9 heats advanced.====Heat 1==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Enrique Figuerola  10.4   2  Carl Fredrik Bunæs  10.7   3  Yuriy Konovalov  10.7   4  Suthi Manyakass  10.8   5  Mikhail Bachvarov  11.0   6  Amos Grodzinowsky  11.1   7  Raj Joshi Tilak  11.3  ====Heat 2==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Seraphino Antao  10.5   2  Armin Hary  10.6   3  Heinz Müller  10.8   4  Gustav Ntiforo  11.0   5  Isaac Gómez  11.0   6  Dennis Tipping  11.2   7  Abdul Khaliq  11.2  ====Heat 3==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Horacio Esteves  10.4   2  Dennis Johnson  10.4   3  Dave Sime  10.5   4  Lynn Eves  10.8   5  Aggrey Awori  10.9   6  Patrick Lowry  10.9   7  Roba Negousse  11.3  ====Heat 4==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Harry Jerome  10.5   2  Jocelyn Delecour  10.5   3  Erasmus Amukun  10.6   4  Affonso da Silva  10.8   5  Bouchaib El-Maachi  10.9   6  Shahrudin Mohamed Ali  10.9   -  James Omagbemi     ====Heat 5==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Tom Robinson  10.5   2  Lloyd Murad  10.7   3  Sitiveni Moceidreke  10.8   4  George Short  10.9   5  Emmanuel Putu  11.2   6  Kim Jong-cheol  11.5  ====Heat 6==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Ray Norton  10.7   2  Gusman Kosanov  10.7   3  Santiago Plaza  10.8   4  Walter Mahlendorf  10.8   5  Romain Poté  11.0   6  Aydin Onur  11.3   7  Abdul Hadi Shekaib  11.6  ====Heat 7==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  David Jones  10.5   2  Abdoulaye Seye  10.6   3  Rafael Romero  10.7   4  Elmar Kunauer  11.0   5  Huang Suh-chuang  11.2   6  Khudhir Zalata  11.3   -  Iftikhar Shah     ====Heat 8==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Marian Foik  10.5   2  Edward Jefferys  10.6   3  Claude Piquemal  10.7   4  Jalal Gozal  10.9   5  Manfred Germar  11.0   6  Hamdan El-Tayeb  11.1   7  José Albarrán  11.2  ====Heat 9==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Peter Radford  10.4   2  Frank Budd  10.4   3  Edvin Ozolin  10.7   4  Hilmar Thorbjörnsson  10.9   5  Nikolaos Georgopoulos  11.0   6  Moustafa Abdel Kader  11.2   7  James Roberts  11.2  ===Quarterfinal===The top three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.====Quarterfinal 1==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1 Horacio Esteves 10.5   2 Tom Robinson 10.6   3 Ray Norton 10.6   4 Jocelyn Delecour 10.7   5 Edward Jefferys 10.7   6 Edvīns Ozoliņš 10.7   7 Heinz Müller 10.8  ====Quarterfinal 2==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1 Armin Hary 10.2  ,  2 Dave Sime 10.3   3 Marian Foik  10.4   4 Dennis Johnson 10.4   5 Carl Fredrik Bunæs 10.5   6 Yuriy Konovalov 10.5   7 Sitiveni Moceidreke 10.7  ====Quarterfinal 3==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1 Frank Budd 10.4   2 Enrique Figuerola 10.4   3 David Jones 10.5   4 Erasmus Amukun  10.6   5  Claude Piquemal  10.6   6 Gusman Kosanov 10.7   7 Santiago Plaza  10.8  ====Quarterfinal 4==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1 Harry Jerome  10.4   2 Peter Radford  10.4   3 Seraphino Antao  10.4   4 Abdoulaye Seye  10.4   5 Lloyd Murad  10.8   6 Rafael Romero  11.1  ===Semifinals===The top three runners in each of the two semifinals advanced to the final.====Semifinal 1==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1 Peter Radford  10.4   2 Enrique Figuerola 10.4   3 Frank Budd 10.5   4 Marian Foik  10.5   5 Tom Robinson 10.5   - Harry Jerome     ====Semifinal 2==== Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes 1 Armin Hary 10.3   2 Dave Sime 10.4   3 Ray Norton 10.4   4 David Jones 10.4   5 Horacio Esteves 10.5   6 Seraphino Antao  10.6  ===Final===100 m final, left-right: Armin Hary, Peter Radford, Enrique Figuerola, Ray Norton, Frank Budd, Dave SimeArmin Hary and Dave Sime tied the Olympic record. Rank  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes  Armin Hary 10.2    Dave Sime 10.2    Peter Radford  10.3  4 Enrique Figuerola 10.3  5 Frank Budd 10.3  6 Ray Norton 10.4  *Wind speed = -0.0 m/s
References
External links * Olympic Report 1960 Volume 2