| Final Wind -1.1m/s | time | L | | 1. Allan Wells |  Great Britain | 10.25s | 8 | | 2. Silvio Leonard |  Cuba | 10.25s | 1 | | 3. Petar Petrov |  Bulgaria | 10.39s | 5 | | 4. Aleksandr Aksinin |  Soviet Union | 10.42s | 2 | | 5. Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.43s | 7 | | 6. Vladimir Muraviov | Soviet Union | 10.44s | 3 | | 7. Marian Woronin |  Poland | 10.46s | 4 | | 8. Herman Panzo |  France | 10.49s | 6 |
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| | | Venue: Central Lenin Stadium, Luzhniki 100,000. 65 competitors from 40 nations. |
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| World and Olympic Record: 9.95s Jim Hines, United States Mexico City, Mexico October 14, 1968 |
This event was seriously depleted because of the “western” boycott.
Silvio Leonard, who had been the world’s number one six years earlier
when aged 18, was the favourite, with Woronin, Wells and Eugen Ray
as strong outsiders. Wells was the fastest in the first two rounds, with
10.11, ahead of the surprising Petrov (10.13), eliminating Crawford
(fifth in 10.28) from further action. Leonard won his heat in 10.16.
Petrov edged Leonard (10.39-10.40) in the first semi-final, with Wells
winning the other race in 10.27, the wind now blowing at 45° against
the runners.
In the final, Leonard was drawn in lane 1, with Wells out in lane 8.
Aksinin and the Cuban number two, Lara, started best, with Leonard
catching them at 30m and Wells about 30cm behind. Wells, who had
been compelled by the rules to use starting blocks, caught Leonard at
80m and the two hit the line as one. On replay it was seen that Wells
had won with a better lean. Wells later estimated that with better, but
legal, wind conditions the time would have been 10.05, and the pub-
lished wind reading of +1.11 was clearly incorrect. In his first race after
the Games, Wells ran against the leading American, Stanley Floyd,
winning 10.19 to 10.21.
| Semi 1 | time | | 1. Petr Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.39s | | 2. Silvio Leonard | Cuba | 10.40s | | 3. Aleksandr Aksinin | Soviet Union | 10.45s | | 4. Herman Panzo | France | 10.45s | | 5. Donald Quarrie |  Jamaica | 10.55s | | 6. Pietro Mennea |  Italy | 10.58s | | 7. Cameron Sharp | Great Britain | 10.60s | | 8. Gregory Illorson |  Cameroon | 10.60s |
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| Semi 2 | time | | 1. Allan Wells | Great Britain | 10.27s | | 2. Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.34s | | 3. Vladimir Muraviov | Soviet Union | 10.42s | | 4. Marian Woronin | Poland | 10.43s | | 5. James Gilkes |  Guyana | 10.44s | | 6. Eugen Ray |  East Germany | 10.47s | | 7. Peter Okodogbe |  Nigeria | 10.51s | | 8. Christopher Brathwaite |  Trinidad Tobago | 10.54s |
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| Quarter 1 | time | | 1. Allan Wells | Great Britain | 10.11s | | 2. Petr Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.13s | | 3. Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.21s | | 4. Pietro Mennea | Italy | 10.27s | | 5. Hasely Crawford | Trinidad Tobago | 10.28s | | 6. Soren Schlegel | East Germany | 10.28s | | 7. Nelson Rocha dos Santos |  Brazil | 10.45s | | 8. Lambros Kefalas |  Greece | 10.62s |
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| Quarter 2 | time | | 1. Aleksandr Aksinin | Soviet Union | 10.29s | | 2. Donald Quarrie | Jamaica | 10.29s | | 3. Herman Panzo | France | 10.29s | | 4. Peter Okodogbe | Nigeria | 10.34s | | 5. Leszek Dunecki | Poland | 10.40s | | 6. Andrew Mcmaster | Great Britain | 10.42s | | 7. Tomas Gonzalez | Cuba | 10.44s | | 8. Correa Suero Gerardo |  Dominicana | 10.--s |
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| Quarter 3 | time | | 1. Silvio Leonard | Cuba | 10.16s | | 2. Marian Woronin | Poland | 10.27s | | 3. Eugen Ray | East Germany | 10.30s | | 4. Christopher Brathwaite | Trinidad Tobago | 10.37s | | 5. Andrei Shliapnikov | Soviet Union | 10.41s | | 6. Theophile Nkounkou |  Congo | 10.59s | | 7. Hammed Adio | Nigeria | 10.67s | | 8. Katsuhico Nakaya | Brazil | 10.70s |
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| Quarter 4 | time | | 1. James Gilkes | Guyana | 10.26s | | 2. Gregory Illorson | Cameroon | 10.29s | | 3. Vladimir Muraviov | Soviet Union | 10.34s | | 4. Cameron Sharp | Great Britain | 10.38s | | 5. Antoine Richard | France | 10.45s | | 6. Klaus-Dieter Kurrat | East Germany | 10.54s | | 7. Krzysztof Zwolinski | Poland | 10.54s | | 8. Samson Oyeledun | Nigeria | 10.73s |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Silvio Leonard | Cuba | 10.33s | | 2. Peter Okodogbe | Nigeria | 10.39s | | 3. Christopher Brathwaite | Trinidad Tobago | 10.44s | | 4. Klaus-Dieter Kurrat | East Germany | 10.53s | | 5. Charles Kachenjela |  Zambia | 11.03s | | 6. John Carew |  Siera Leone | 11.11s | | 7. Marc Larose |  Seychelles | 11.27s |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Petr Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.32s | | 2. Vladimir Muraviov | Soviet Union | 10.37s | | 3. Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.39s | | 4. Antoine Richard | France | 10.51s | | 5. Pascal Aho |  Benin | 11.01s | | 6. Joseph Letseka |  Lesotho | 11.21s | | 7. Ilidio Coelho |  Angola | 11.42s | | 8. Besha Tuffa |  Ethiopia | 11.55s |
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| Heat 3 | time | | 1. Allan Wells | Great Britain | 10.35s | | 2. Donald Quarrie | Jamaica | 10.37s | | 3. Krzysztof Zwolinski | Poland | 10.60s | | 4. Ivailo Karaniotov | Bulgaria | 10.66s | | 5. Istvan Tatar |  Hungary | 10.69s | | 6. Mario Westbroek |  Netherlands | 10.91s | | 7. Oddur Sigurdsson |  Iceland | 10.94s |
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| Heat 4 | time | | 1. Pietro Mennea | Italy | 10.56s | | 2. Lambros Kefalas | Greece | 10.70s | | 3. Katsuhico Nakaya | Brazil | 10.72s | | 4. Momar Ndao |  Senegal | 10.73s | | 5. Eduardo Costa |  Mozambique | 11.02s | | 6. Lucien Josiah |  Botswana | 11.15s | | 7. Soutsakhone Somninhom |  Laos | 11.69s |
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| Heat 5 | time | | 1. Eugen Ray | East Germany | 10.38s | | 2. Hasely Crawford | Trinidad Tobago | 10.42s | | 3. Andrew Mcmaster | Great Britain | 10.43s | | 4. Correa Suero Gerardo | Dominicana | 10.--s | | 5. Roland Dagher |  Libya | 11.01s | | 6. Sheku Boima | Siera Leone | 11.08s | | 7. Raghuraj Onta |  Nepal | 11.61s |
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| Heat 6 | time | | 1. James Gilkes | Guyana | 10.34s | | 2. Cameron Sharp | Great Britain | 10.38s | | 3. Theophile Nkounkou | Congo | 10.53s | | 4. Istvan Nagy | Hungary | 10.68s | | 5. David Lukuba |  Tanzania | 10.74s | | 6. Paul Haba |  Guinea | 11.19s | | 7. Abdoulmajeed al-Mosawi |  Kuwait | 11.28s |
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| Heat 7 | time | | 1. Aleksandr Aksinin | Soviet Union | 10.26s | | 2. Leszek Dunecki | Poland | 10.42s | | 3. Nelson Rocha dos Santos | Brazil | 10.51s | | 4. Hammed Adio | Nigeria | 10.58s | | 5. Nabil Nahri |  Syria | 10.67s | | 6. Mwalim Ali | Tanzania | 10.86s | | 7. Rudolph George | Siera Leone | 11.37s |
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| Heat 8 | time | | 1. Soren Schlegel | East Germany | 10.44s | | 2. Herman Panzo | France | 10.53s | | 3. Tomas Gonzalez | Cuba | 10.65s | | 4. Antoine Kiakouama | Congo | 10.69s | | 5. Castro de Milton Costas |  --- | 10.--s | | 6. Boubacar Diallo | Senegal | 10.75s | | 7. Adille Sumariwalla |  India | 11.04s |
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| Heat 9 | time | | 1. Gregory Illorson | Cameroon | 10.34s | | 2. Marian Woronin | Poland | 10.35s | | 3. Andrei Shliapnikov | Soviet Union | 10.43s | | 4. Samson Oyeledun | Nigeria | 10.59s | | 5. Francis Adams | Trinidad Tobago | 10.80s | | 6. Peter Mwita | Tanzania | 11.07s | | 7. Salif Kone |  Mali | 11.07s |
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