Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
April 11, 2024
The men's 100 metressprint event at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was held at Olympic Stadium on July 23 and 24.[1] Sixty-three athletes from 40 nations competed.[2] Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago, earning the nation's first gold medal and making Crawford a national hero. Don Quarrie's silver medal made Jamaica only the third country to reach the men's 100 metres podium three consecutive times (after the United States, which had streaks of 9 Games and 7 Games, and Great Britain, which had medaled consecutively in 1920, 1924, and 1928). Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union was unable to defend his title, but by taking bronze became the third man to medal twice in the event. For only the second time (after 1928), the United States did not have a medalist in the event.
In the preliminary rounds, all the top athletes were running times in the 10.30s to 10.40s, while by the semi-finals some times dropped to the 10.20s. They took the top 4 from each semi, so Steve Riddick was left out of the final even though he had run faster than Guy Abrahams in the earlier semi. With the #1 time from the semis, Hasely Crawford was still placed in lane 1, somewhat hidden from the other top contenders in the center of the track, including Harvey Glance, 200 metre specialist Don Quarrie and the defending champion Valeriy Borzov. From the gun, Borzov was out fast in lane 3 gaining a half a metre on Quarrie next to him in 4, with Glance another half metre behind Quarrie. As Quarrie slowly gained on Borzov, Crawford was also speeding down lane 1. Quarrie went past Borzov, but Crawford was already ahead for a narrow victory, the leaning Borzov holding off Glance.
This was the eighteenth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. Two finalists from 1972 returned: gold medal winner Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago, who had not finished the Munich final. The favorite was Jamaican Don Quarrie (1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Games champion, with a share of the world record at 9.9 seconds), particularly with American Steve Williams (who had run 9.9 seconds four times) having been injured at the U.S. Olympic trials. Borzov was "not the dominant sprinter he had been in 1972." The top American in Montreal was Harvey Glance, who had run the 9.9 second world record time twice. Cuban Silvio Leonard had also matched that time once.[2]
Three nations appeared in the event for the first time: Barbados, Belize, and the Netherlands Antilles. The United States was the only nation to have appeared at each of the first eighteen Olympic men's 100 metres events.
Competition formatedit
The event retained the same basic four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The "fastest loser" system, introduced in 1968, was used again to ensure that the quarterfinals and subsequent rounds had exactly 8 runners per heat; this time, that system applied only in the preliminary heats.
The first round consisted of 9 heats, each with 6–8 athletes. The top three runners in each heat advanced, along with the next five fastest runners overall. This made 32 quarterfinalists, who were divided into 4 heats of 8 runners. The top four runners in each quarterfinal advanced, with no "fastest loser" places. The 16 semifinalists competed in two heats of 8, with the top four in each semifinal advancing to the eight-man final.[2][3]
Recordsedit
These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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The men s 100 metres sprint event at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Quebec Canada was held at Olympic Stadium on July 23 and 24 1 Sixty three athletes from 40 nations competed 2 Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress The event was won by Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago earning the nation s first gold medal and making Crawford a national hero Don Quarrie s silver medal made Jamaica only the third country to reach the men s 100 metres podium three consecutive times after the United States which had streaks of 9 Games and 7 Games and Great Britain which had medaled consecutively in 1920 1924 and 1928 Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union was unable to defend his title but by taking bronze became the third man to medal twice in the event For only the second time after 1928 the United States did not have a medalist in the event Men s 100 metresat the Games of the XXI OlympiadVenueOlympic StadiumMontreal Quebec CanadaDatesJuly 23 1976 heats quarterfinals July 24 1976 semifinals final Competitors63 from 40 nationsWinning time10 06 secondsMedalistsHasely Crawford Trinidad and TobagoDon Quarrie JamaicaValeriy Borzov Soviet Union 19721980 In the preliminary rounds all the top athletes were running times in the 10 30s to 10 40s while by the semi finals some times dropped to the 10 20s They took the top 4 from each semi so Steve Riddick was left out of the final even though he had run faster than Guy Abrahams in the earlier semi With the 1 time from the semis Hasely Crawford was still placed in lane 1 somewhat hidden from the other top contenders in the center of the track including Harvey Glance 200 metre specialist Don Quarrie and the defending champion Valeriy Borzov From the gun Borzov was out fast in lane 3 gaining a half a metre on Quarrie next to him in 4 with Glance another half metre behind Quarrie As Quarrie slowly gained on Borzov Crawford was also speeding down lane 1 Quarrie went past Borzov but Crawford was already ahead for a narrow victory the leaning Borzov holding off Glance Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format 3 Records 4 Results 4 1 Heats 4 1 1 Heat 1 4 1 2 Heat 2 4 1 3 Heat 3 4 1 4 Heat 4 4 1 5 Heat 5 4 1 6 Heat 6 4 1 7 Heat 7 4 1 8 Heat 8 4 1 9 Heat 9 4 2 Quarterfinals 4 2 1 Quarterfinal 1 4 2 2 Quarterfinal 2 4 2 3 Quarterfinal 3 4 2 4 Quarterfinal 4 4 3 Semifinals 4 3 1 Semifinal 1 4 3 2 Semifinal 2 4 4 Final 5 See also 6 ReferencesBackground editThis was the eighteenth time the event was held having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896 Two finalists from 1972 returned gold medal winner Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago who had not finished the Munich final The favorite was Jamaican Don Quarrie 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Games champion with a share of the world record at 9 9 seconds particularly with American Steve Williams who had run 9 9 seconds four times having been injured at the U S Olympic trials Borzov was not the dominant sprinter he had been in 1972 The top American in Montreal was Harvey Glance who had run the 9 9 second world record time twice Cuban Silvio Leonard had also matched that time once 2 Three nations appeared in the event for the first time Barbados Belize and the Netherlands Antilles The United States was the only nation to have appeared at each of the first eighteen Olympic men s 100 metres events Competition format editThe event retained the same basic four round format introduced in 1920 heats quarterfinals semifinals and a final The fastest loser system introduced in 1968 was used again to ensure that the quarterfinals and subsequent rounds had exactly 8 runners per heat this time that system applied only in the preliminary heats The first round consisted of 9 heats each with 6 8 athletes The top three runners in each heat advanced along with the next five fastest runners overall This made 32 quarterfinalists who were divided into 4 heats of 8 runners The top four runners in each quarterfinal advanced with no fastest loser places The 16 semifinalists competed in two heats of 8 with the top four in each semifinal advancing to the eight man final 2 3 Records editThese are the standing world and Olympic records in seconds prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics World Record 9 95 nbsp Jim Hines Mexico City MEX October 14 1968Olympic Record 9 95 nbsp Jim Hines Mexico City MEX October 14 1968Results editHeats edit The heats were held on July 23 1976 Heat 1 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Hasely Crawford nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 42 Q2 Alexander Thieme nbsp East Germany 10 64 Q3 Luciano Caravani nbsp Italy 10 66 Q4 Lambert Micha nbsp Belgium 10 695 Gregory Simons nbsp Bermuda 10 766 Bjarni Stefansson nbsp Iceland 11 28Heat 2 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Johnny Lam Jones nbsp United States 10 43 Q2 Amadou Meite nbsp Ivory Coast 10 53 Q3 Ainsley Armstrong nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 59 Q4 Mike Sharpe nbsp Bermuda 10 705 Dominique Chauvelot nbsp France 10 796 Mohamed Al Sehly nbsp Saudi Arabia 11 107 Werner Bastians nbsp West Germany 11 178 Armando Padilla nbsp Nicaragua 11 52Heat 3 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Petar Petrov nbsp Bulgaria 10 46 Q2 Zenon Licznerski nbsp Poland 10 60 Q3 Rui da Silva nbsp Brazil 10 61 Q4 Christer Garpenborg nbsp Sweden 10 64 q5 Jean Claude Amoureux nbsp France 10 756 Abdul Kareem Al Awad nbsp Kuwait 11 277 Ayoub Bodaghi nbsp Iran 11 39Heat 4 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Don Quarrie nbsp Jamaica 10 38 Q2 Guy Abrahams nbsp Panama 10 40 Q3 Marvin Nash nbsp Canada 10 59 Q4 Mike Sands nbsp Bahamas 10 65 q5 Dennis Trott nbsp Bermuda 10 67 q6 Peter Fitzgerald nbsp Australia 10 877 Ronald Russell nbsp Virgin Islands 11 22Heat 5 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Harvey Glance nbsp United States 10 37 Q2 Marian Woronin nbsp Poland 10 56 Q3 Aleksandr Aksinin nbsp Soviet Union 10 60 Q4 Colin Bradford nbsp Jamaica 10 64 q5 Pedro Ferrer nbsp Puerto Rico 10 766 Vasilios Papageorgopoulos nbsp Greece 10 827 Leonard Jervis nbsp Bahamas 10 87Heat 6 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Klaus Dieter Kurrat nbsp East Germany 10 37 Q2 Valeriy Borzov nbsp Soviet Union 10 53 Q3 Dieter Steinmann nbsp West Germany 10 68 Q4 Francisco Gomez nbsp Cuba 10 68 q5 Barka Sy nbsp Senegal 10 816 Masahide Jinno nbsp Japan 10 947 Colin Thurton nbsp Belize 11 038 Siegfried Regales nbsp Netherlands Antilles 11 11Heat 7 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Steve Riddick nbsp United States 10 43 Q2 Andrzej Swierczynski nbsp Poland 10 62 Q3 Adama Fall nbsp Senegal 10 72 Q4 Suchart Chairsuvaparb nbsp Thailand 10 755 Roland Bombardella nbsp Luxembourg 10 766 Clive Sands nbsp Bahamas 10 827 Philippe Etienne nbsp Haiti 11 05Heat 8 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Gilles Echevin nbsp France 10 53 Q2 Klaus Bieler nbsp West Germany 10 58 Q3 Anat Ratanapol nbsp Thailand 10 71 Q4 Hermes Ramirez nbsp Cuba 10 725 Momar N Dao nbsp Senegal 10 746 Ramli Ahmad nbsp Malaysia 10 98Heat 9 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Sammy Monsels nbsp Suriname 10 58 Q2 Silvio Leonard nbsp Cuba 10 62 Q3 Juris Silovs nbsp Soviet Union 10 70 Q4 Chris Brathwaite nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 715 Endre Lepold nbsp Hungary 10 826 Pearson Jordan nbsp Barbados 10 957 Tony Moore nbsp Fiji 11 16Quarterfinals edit The quarterfinals were held on July 23 1976 Quarterfinal 1 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Don Quarrie nbsp Jamaica 10 33 Q2 Steve Riddick nbsp United States 10 36 Q3 Marvin Nash nbsp Canada 10 48 Q4 Aleksandr Aksinin nbsp Soviet Union 10 55 Q5 Dennis Trott nbsp Bermuda 10 646 Anat Ratanapol nbsp Thailand 10 657 Luciano Caravani nbsp Italy 10 818 Gilles Echevin nbsp France 12 00Quarterfinal 2 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Guy Abrahams nbsp Panama 10 35 Q2 Johnny Lam Jones nbsp United States 10 46 Q3 Alexander Thieme nbsp East Germany 10 50 Q4 Marian Woronin nbsp Poland 10 53 Q5 Silvio Leonard nbsp Cuba 10 596 Sammy Monsels nbsp Suriname 10 617 Colin Bradford nbsp Jamaica 10 628 Christer Garpenborg nbsp Sweden 10 63Quarterfinal 3 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Hasely Crawford nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 29 Q2 Valeriy Borzov nbsp Soviet Union 10 39 Q3 Amadou Meite nbsp Ivory Coast 10 45 Q4 Rui da Silva nbsp Brazil 10 57 Q5 Andrzej Swierczynski nbsp Poland 10 596 Adama Fall nbsp Senegal 10 607 Klaus Bieler nbsp West Germany 10 80 Mike Sands nbsp Bahamas DNSQuarterfinal 4 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Harvey Glance nbsp United States 10 23 Q2 Klaus Dieter Kurrat nbsp East Germany 10 29 Q3 Petar Petrov nbsp Bulgaria 10 30 Q4 Ainsley Armstrong nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 46 Q5 Francisco Gomez nbsp Cuba 10 496 Zenon Licznerski nbsp Poland 10 527 Dieter Steinmann nbsp West Germany 10 67 Juris Silovs nbsp Soviet Union DNSSemifinals edit The semifinals were held on July 24 1976 Semifinal 1 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Harvey Glance nbsp United States 10 24 Q2 Valeriy Borzov nbsp Soviet Union 10 30 Q3 Klaus Dieter Kurrat nbsp East Germany 10 30 Q4 Guy Abrahams nbsp Panama 10 37 Q5 Marvin Nash nbsp Canada 10 526 Ainsley Armstrong nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 527 Rui da Silva nbsp Brazil 10 548 Marian Woronin nbsp Poland 10 69Semifinal 2 edit Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes1 Hasely Crawford nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 22 Q2 Don Quarrie nbsp Jamaica 10 26 Q3 Johnny Lam Jones nbsp United States 10 30 Q4 Petar Petrov nbsp Bulgaria 10 30 Q5 Steve Riddick nbsp United States 10 336 Amadou Meite nbsp Ivory Coast 10 467 Aleksandr Aksinin nbsp Soviet Union 10 508 Alexander Thieme nbsp East Germany 10 50Final edit The final was held on July 24 1976 Rank Athlete Nation Time nbsp Hasely Crawford nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 10 06 nbsp Don Quarrie nbsp Jamaica 10 08 nbsp Valeriy Borzov nbsp Soviet Union 10 144 Harvey Glance nbsp United States 10 195 Guy Abrahams nbsp Panama 10 256 Johnny Lam Jones nbsp United States 10 277 Klaus Dieter Kurrat nbsp East Germany 10 318 Petar Petrov nbsp Bulgaria 10 35See also edit1972 Men s Olympic 100 metres Munich 1978 Men s European Championships 100 metres Prague 1980 Men s Olympic 100 metres Moscow References edit Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games Men s 100 metres Sports Reference Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 2 July 2017 a b c 100 metres Men Olympedia Retrieved 24 July 2020 Official Report vol 3 p 51 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics Men 27s 100 metres amp oldid 1190097887, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
