Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion Munich, West Germany
Dates	31 August (heats, quarterfinals) 1 September 1972 (semifinals, final)
Winning time	10.14 seconds
Medalists
Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union   Robert Taylor   United States   Lennox Miller   Jamaica

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, was held at Olympiastadion on 31 August and 1 September.

This event is notable for the absence of Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson for their quarterfinal heats. American sprint coach Stan Wright, apparently working from an outdated schedule and did not have the athletes at the stadium at the correct time. All three qualified American athletes were at the ABC television headquarters known as "Barnathan's Bungalow" watching what they thought were replays of their morning preliminary races. In fact, they were watching live coverage of the races they should have been in. Hart and Robinson, scheduled in the first two races, missed their heats. The athletes rushed to the stadium, Robert Taylor just taking off his warm up uniform before running his later heat.

"These sprinters missed the start-line in their heats! We've handed the 100 to the Russian!"

— Howard Cosell, ABC commentator^[1]

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.14
02 !	Robert Taylor	United States	10.24
03 !	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.33
4	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.36
5	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.40
6	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.40
7	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.46
-	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	DNF

• Wind speed = 0.3 m/s (0.67 mph)

Preliminaries

Heats

The top three runners in each of the nine heats and the next fastest four, advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.45
2	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.51
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.66
4	Rudy Reid	Trinidad and Tobago	10.74
5	Dan Amuke	Kenya	10.76
6	Byambajavyn Enkhbaatar	Mongolia	10.93
7	Samphon Mao	Khmer Republic	10.95
8	Luis Alers	Puerto Rico	11.09

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.47
2	Mike Sands	Bahamas	10.67
3	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.72
4	Gerhard Wucherer	West Germany	10.82
5	Tadeusz Cuch	Poland	10.89
6	Yeo Kian Chye	Singapore	10.92
7	Alphonse Yanghat	Congo	10.95
8	Andrew Sartee	Liberia	11.09

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	10.09
2	Sandy Osei-Agyemang	Ghana	10.24
3	Les Piggot	Great Britain	10.47
4	John Mwebi	Kenya	10.49
5	Luís da Silva	Brazil	10.61
6	Kevin Johnson	Bahamas	10.61
7	Mansour Al-Juaid	Saudi Arabia	10.61

Heat four *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	10.37
2	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.41
3	Kouakou Komenan	Ivory Coast	10.50
4	Walter Callander	Bahamas	10.78
5	George Calhern	Virgin Islands	10.90
6	Farhan Navab	Iran	11.02
7	Angel Guerreros	Paraguay	11.12

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.38
2	Kola Abdulai	Nigeria	10.57
3	Stanisław Wagner	Poland	10.62
4	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.66
5	Félix Mata	Venezuela	10.73
6	Bjarni Stefánsson	Iceland	10.99
7	Younis Abdallah Rabee	Kuwait	11.20

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Rey Robinson	United States	10.56
2	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.58
3	Sammy Monsels	Suriname	10.61
4	George Daniels	Ghana	10.65
5	André Bicaba	Upper Volta	10.71
6	Motsapi Moorosi	Lesotho	10.74
7	William Dralu	Uganda	10.92

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.50
2	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.58
3	Erik Gustafsson	Finland	10.68
4	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	10.73
5	Norman Chihota	Tanzania	10.79
6	Egzi Gebre-Gebre	Ethiopia	10.89
7	Pierre-Richard Gaetjens	Haiti	11.50

Heat eight *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.30
2	Bernd Borth	East Germany	10.48
3	Audun Garshol	Norway	10.49
4	Su Wen-Ho	Republic of China	10.59
5	Gana Abba Kimet	Chad	10.89
6	Raimo Vilén	Finland	11.00
7	Lionel Caero	Bolivia	11.19

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Alain Sarteur	France	10.42
2	Saleh Alah-Djaba	Chad	10.65
3	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.68
4	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	10.73
5	Laurie D'Arcy	New Zealand	10.77
6	Larmeck Mukonde	Zambia	11.16

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.24
2	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.29
3	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.47
4	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.52
5	Ainsley Armstrong	Trinidad and Tobago	10.56
6	Jorge Vizcarrondo	Puerto Rico	10.79
7	Zain-ud-Din bin Abdul Wahab	Malaysia	10.80

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Eddie Hart	United States	10.47
2	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.66
3	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.67
4	Benedict Majekodunmi	Nigeria	10.70
5	Gaston Malam	Cameroon	10.88
6	Sunil Gunawardene	Sri Lanka	11.00
7	Tukal Mokalam	Philippines	11.02

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Robert Taylor	United States	10.32
2	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.36
3	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.36
4	Vladimir Atamas	Soviet Union	10.51
5	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	10.61
6	André Byrame	France	10.64
7	Moustafa Matola	Malawi	11.31

Quarterfinals

The top three runners in each of the five heats and the next fastest one, advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Hart failed to appear due to a scheduling error.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.25
2	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	10.35
3	Bernd Borth	East Germany	10.44
4	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	10.45
5	Ainsley Armstrong	Trinidad and Tobago	10.47
6	Mike Sands	Bahamas	10.50
7	Audun Garshol	Norway	10.55
-	Eddie Hart	United States	DNS

Heat two

Robinson failed to appear due to a scheduling error.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.47
2	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.58
3	Kouakou Komenan	Ivory Coast	10.60
4	Stanisław Wagner	Poland	10.61
5	Sandy Osei-Agyemang	Ghana	10.66
6	Erik Gustafsson	Finland	10.78
7	Su Wen-Ho	Republic of China	10.82
-	Rey Robinson	United States	DNS

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.07 ER
2	Robert Taylor	United States	10.16
3	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.18
4	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.40
5	Klaus Ehl	West Germany	10.44
6	Les Piggot	Great Britain	10.53
7	Dominique Chauvelot	France	10.54
8	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	10.64

Heat four*

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.23
2	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.27
3	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.28
4	Kola Abdulai	Nigeria	10.41
5	Antti Rajamäki	Finland	10.43
6	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	10.44
7	Saleh Alah-Djaba	Chad	10.51
8	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.51

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.33
2	Alain Sarteur	France	10.40
3	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	10.45
4	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.52
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	10.52
6	Don Halliday	Great Britain	10.60
7	Sammy Monsels	Suriname	10.64
8	Vladimir Atamas	Soviet Union	10.83

Semifinals

The top four runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Papageorgopoulos was forced to scratch after he pulled a groin muscle in the quarter-finals.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	10.21
2	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.36
3	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	10.36
4	Michael Fray	Jamaica	10.48
5	Alain Sarteur	France	10.51
6	Kouakou Komenan	Ivory Coast	10.57
7	Bernd Borth	East Germany	10.60
-	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	DNS

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Robert Taylor	United States	10.30
2	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.31
3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	10.35
4	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	10.42
5	Barka Sy	Senegal	10.42
6	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	10.46
7	Jaroslav Matoušek	Czechoslovakia	10.40
8	Brian Green	Great Britain	10.40

Key: DNF = Did not finish
* Wind assisted

References

• 1972 Summer Olympics results: Men's 100 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-01.