| Final 15:30 wind 1.1m/s | time | electr | L | | 1. Robert L. Hayes |  United States | 10.0s WR | 10.06s | 1 | | 2. Enrique Figuerola |  Cuba | 10.2s | 10.25s | 3 | | 3. Harry Jerome |  Canada | 10.2s | 10.27s | 5 | | 4. Wiesław Jan Maniak |  Poland | 10.4s | 10.42s | 6 | | 5. Heinz Schumann |  UT Germany | 10.4s | 10.46s | 2 | | 6. Gaoussou Koné |  Ivory Coast | 10.4s | 10.47s | 4 | | 6. Melvin Pender | United States | 10.4s | 10.47s | 8 | | 8. Thomas Augustus Robinson |  Bahamas | 10.5s | 10.57s | 7 |
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| | | Venue: Olympic Stadium, Tokyo 57,363 (48,000 seats). | | 72 competitors from 48 nations. |
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| Semi-Finals - Thursday 15.10 14:00 | | First 4 from each Semi advanced to Final. |
| Semi 1 wind 5.3m/s | time | | 1. Robert L. Hayes | United States | 9.9s | | 2. Wiesław Jan Maniak | Poland | 10.1s | | 3. Thomas Augustus Robinson | Bahamas | 10.2s | | 4. Heinz Schumann | UT Germany | 10.3s | | 5. Robert William Lay |  Australia | 10.3s | | 6. Pablo S. Mcneil |  Jamaica | 10.3s | | 7. Arquimedes Herrera |  Venezuela | 10.4s | | 8. Trenton Jackson | United States | 10.6s |
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| Semi 2 wind -1.2m/s | time | | 1. Harry Jerome | Canada | 10.3s | | 2. Gaoussou Koné | Ivory Coast | 10.4s | | 3. Enrique Figuerola | Cuba | 10.4s | | 4. Melvin Pender | United States | 10.4s | | 5. Claude Piquemal |  France | 10.5s | | 6. Lynsworth W. Headley | Jamaica | 10.5s | | 7. Hideo Iijima |  Japan | 10.6s | | 8. Fritz Obersiebrasse | UT Germany | 10.6s |
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Hary’s auto-timed Olympic best was equalled by Jerome in the second
round, and then beaten by Figuerola’s 10.31 in the next race.
Championship favourite Bob Hayes opened up in the semis, running an
awesome 9.91, aided by a wind of 5.3. Ten minutes later the wind was
-1.2 for Jerome’s 10.37. Hayes drew the chopped up inside lane for the
final, with Figuerola in 3, and Jerome in lane 5. These three quickly
drew clear in the final, with the burly (1.82/86kg) Hayes exhibiting
enormous power in drawing away at the 30m mark to win by 2m from
two superb sprinters. It was the most dominant piece of 100 metre run-
ning in Olympic history.
A measure of Hayes’s quality as a 100m man was that by the end of
1964 his tally of legal 9.3 100 yard or 10.2 100m clockings totalled 29,
more than the total of his principal rivals Jerome (15) and Figuerola (13),
despite them starting their international careers before him.
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| | | First 4 from each of 4 Quarters advanced to Semi-Finals. |
| Quarter 1 | time | | 1. Harry Jerome | Canada | 10.3s | | 2. Trenton Jackson | United States | 10.4s | | 3. Fritz Obersiebrasse | UT Germany | 10.4s | | 4. Gaoussou Koné | Ivory Coast | 10.4s | | 5. Dennis O. Johnson | Jamaica | 10.5s | | 6. Marian Dudziak | Poland | 10.5s | | 7. Bernard Laidebeur | France | 10.5s | | 8. William Joheph Earle | Australia | 10.6s |
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| Quarter 2 | time | | 1. Enrique Figuerola | Cuba | 10.3s | | 2. Wiesław Jan Maniak | Poland | 10.3s | | 3. Robert William Lay | Australia | 10.4s | | 4. Claude Piquemal | France | 10.4s | | 5. Edvin Ozolin |  Soviet Union | 10.4s | | 6. B. El Maachi Bouchaib |  Marocco | 10.5s | | 7. John Owiti |  Kenya | 10.6s |
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| Quarter 3 | time | | 1. Thomas Augustus Robinson | Bahamas | 10.3s | | 2. Melvin Pender | United States | 10.4s | | 3. Hideo Iijima | Japan | 10.5s | | 4. Pablo S. Mcneil | Jamaica | 10.5s | | 5. M. Jegathesan |  Malaya | 10.6s | | 6. Ivan Moreno |  Chile | 10.6s | | 7. Stanley Fabian Allotey |  Ghana | 10.7s | | 8. Lloyd Murad | Venezuela | 10.7s |
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| Quarter 4 | time | | 1. Robert L. Hayes | United States | 10.3s | | 2. Arquimedes Herrera | Venezuela | 10.4s | | 3. Lynsworth W. Headley | Jamaica | 10.4s | | 4. Heinz Schumann | UT Germany | 10.5s | | 5. Peter Frank Radford |  Great Britain | 10.5s | | 6. Roger Bambuck | France | 10.5s | | 7. Michael Kofi Ahey | Ghana | 10.6s |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Hideo Iijima | Japan | 10.3s | | 2. Bernard Laidebeur | France | 10.5s | | 3. Edvin Ozolin | Soviet Union | 10.5s | | 4. Kenneth Lawrence Powell |  India | 10.7s | | 5. Zbigniew Syka | Poland | 10.7s | | 6. J. Ravelomanantsoa |  Madagascar | 10.8s | | 7. Sara Camara |  Mali | 11.3s |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Trenton Jackson | United States | 10.5s | | 2. Peter Frank Radford | Great Britain | 10.6s | | 3. B. El Maachi Bouchaib | Marocco | 10.6s | | 4. Csaba Csutoras |  Hungary | 10.7s | | 5. Johan Du Preez |  South Rhodesia | 10.7s | | 6. Ki Sun Chung |  South Korea | 11.0s | | 7. Arnulfo V. Valles |  Philippines | 11.1s |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Gaoussou Koné | Ivory Coast | 10.5s | | 2. Melvin Pender | United States | 10.5s | | 3. Michael Kofi Ahey | Ghana | 10.6s | | 4. Franciscus J. Luitjes |  Netherlands | 10.6s | | 5. Wilton Jackson |  Trinidad Tobago | 10.6s | | 6. Lynn Davies | Great Britain | 10.7s | | 7. Gerardo Di Tolla |  Peru | 10.9s | | 8. Ar Tu Lee |  Taiwan | 11.2s |
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| Heat 4 | time | | 1. Marian Dudziak | Poland | 10.6s | | 2. Stanley Fabian Allotey | Ghana | 10.6s | | 3. John Owiti | Kenya | 10.6s | | 4. Carlos Lorenzo Manueco |  Mexico | 10.7s | | 5. George Reginald Collie | Bahamas | 10.9s | | 6. Masaru Kamata | Japan | 10.9s | | 7. Ho Thanh Chinh |  South Vietnam | 11.9s |
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| Heat 5 | time | | 1. Harry Jerome | Canada | 10.5s | | 2. Claude Piquemal | France | 10.5s | | 3. Lloyd Murad | Venezuela | 10.8s | | 4. James Odongo Oduka |  Uganda | 10.9s | | 5. Gusman Kosanov | Soviet Union | 10.9s | | 6. Abdoulaye Ndiaye |  Senegal | 11.0s | | 7. Levy Psawkin |  Israel | 11.1s |
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| Heat 6 | time | | 1. Heinz Schumann | UT Germany | 10.5s | | 2. Dennis O. Johnson | Jamaica | 10.6s | | 3. William Joheph Earle | Australia | 10.7s | | 4. Serafino Antao | Kenya | 10.7s | | 5. Huba Rozsnyai | Hungary | 10.8s | | 6. Alfred Meakin | Great Britain | 10.9s | | 7. David Njitock |  Cameroon | 11.1s | | -. Akbar Babakhanlou |  Iran | DNS |
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| Heat 7 | time | | 1. Wiesław Jan Maniak | Poland | 10.5s | | 2. Arquimedes Herrera | Venezuela | 10.5s | | 3. M. Jegathesan | Malaya | 10.6s | | 4. Jose Fernandes Da Rocha |  Portugal | 11.0s | | 5. Bassirou Doumya | Senegal | 11.0s | | 6. F.J. Gutierrez Hernandez |  Colombia | 11.0s | | 7. Iftikhar Shah |  Pakistan | 11.4s |
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| Heat 8 | time | | 1. Robert L. Hayes | United States | 10.4s | | 2. Thomas Augustus Robinson | Bahamas | 10.5s | | 3. Robert William Lay | Australia | 10.5s | | 4. Ito Giani |  Italy | 10.6s | | 5. Rogelio P. Onofre | Philippines | 10.7s | | 6. Khudher Zalada |  Iraq | 11.1s | | -. David Ejoke |  Nigeria | DNS |
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| Heat 9 | time | | 1. Fritz Obersiebrasse | UT Germany | 10.4s | | 2. Ivan Moreno | Chile | 10.5s | | 3. Pablo S. Mcneil | Jamaica | 10.5s | | 4. Laszlo Mihalyfi | Hungary | 10.6s | | 5. Gary Alfred Holdsworth | Australia | 10.6s | | 6. Max Barandun |  Switzerland | 10.7s | | 7. Jeffery Itzen Smith |  North Rhodesia | 10.8s | | 8. Wesley Johnson |  Liberia | |
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| Heat 10 | time | | 1. Enrique Figuerola | Cuba | 10.5s | | 2. Lynsworth W. Headley | Jamaica | 10.5s | | 3. Roger Bambuck | France | 10.6s | | 4. Manfred Knickenberg | UT Germany | 10.7s | | 5. Leon Yombe |  Congo | 10.8s | | 6. Alberto S. Torres Mota |  Dominicana | 10.9s | | 7. Suthi Manyakass |  Thailand | 10.9s | | 8. Rogelio Rivas |  Spain | 11.1s |
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| World Record | | 10.0s Armin Hary, West Germany Zürich, Switzerland 21 June 1960 | | 10.0s Harry Jerome, Canada Saskatoon, Canada 15 July 1960 | | 10.0s Horacio Esteves, Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela 15 August 1964 | | Robert Hayes had an official time of 10.0 seconds in the final, breaking the Olympic record by 0.2 seconds and matching the world record. His official time of 9.9 seconds in the semifinals did not count for records purposes because of wind assistance. |
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| Olympic Record | | 10.2s Armin Hary, West Germany Rome, Italy 31 August 1960 | | 10.3s Armin Hary, West Germany Rome, Italy 31 August 1960 | | 10.3s Dave Sime, United States Rome, Italy 31 August 1960 |
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