The 100 metres

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

 at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics

2007 World Championships in Athletics

The 11th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007...

was held at the Nagai Stadium

Nagai Stadium

is an athletic stadium in Osaka, Japan. It is the home ground of J. League club Cerezo Osaka. The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000.-History:...

 on August 25 and August 26.

Medalists

Gold	Tyson Gay Tyson Gay Tyson Gay is an American track and field sprinter. His primary events are the 100 meters and 200 meters. His personal bests establish him as the second fastest athlete in the 100 meters and the fifth fastest athlete in the history of the 200 meters, with times of 9.69 and... United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (USA)
Silver	Derrick Atkins Derrick Atkins Derrick Atkins is a Bahamian sprinter. Atkins specializes in the 100 metres event and also holds the national record, with a time of 9.91 seconds... Bahamas (BAH)
Bronze	Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Asafa Powell C.D is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres. He held the 100 m world record between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively. Powell has consistently broken the 10-second barrier in competition, with his personal best of... Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...  (JAM)

Records

World Record		9.77	Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state... , Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	14 June 2005
			Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...	11 June 2006
			Zurich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... , Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	18 August 2006
Championship Record		9.80	Seville Seville Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	22 August 1999

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

First 3 of each Heat qualifies (Q) plus the 8 fastest non-direct qualifiers (q) reached the Quarterfinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	1		10.14	Q, SB
2	8		10.19	Q
3	6		10.30	Q
4	9		10.34	q
5	2		10.46
6	7		10.92	PB
7	4		11.00
8	5		11.09
9	3		11.51	PB

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	3		10.16	Q, SB
2	6		10.24	Q
3	5		10.25	Q
4	9		10.27	q
5	2		10.46
6	4		10.92
7	1		11.05
8	8		11.59	SB
9	7		11.83	PB

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	4		10.13	Q
2	6		10.21	Q
3	2		10.22	Q
4	5		10.50
5	8		10.59
6	9		11.02	PB
7	7		11.21	PB
	3		DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	2		10.29	Q
2	3		10.31	Q
3	9		10.37	Q
4	4		10.61
5	8		10.73
6	6		11.07	SB
7	7		12.64	PB
8	5		13.64	SB

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	2		10.21	Q
2	6		10.31	Q
3	5		10.34	Q
4	9		10.39	q
5	8		10.53
6	7		10.65
7	4		11.10	PB
8	3		11.22	PB

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	4		10.29	Q
2	3		10.34	Q
3	7		10.36	Q
4	1		10.38	q
5	2		10.68
6	9		10.72
7	5		10.88
8	8		11.49	PB
9	6		11.58	SB

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	1		10.17	Q
2	3		10.20	Q, PB
3	2		10.25	Q
4	6		10.27	q, PB
5	4		10.55	NR
6	9		10.96	PB
7	7		11.03	SB
8	8		11.86	PB
	5		DNF

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	6		10.16	Q
2	7		10.21	Q
3	5		10.22	Q
4	4		10.34	q
5	2		10.42	q
6	8		10.45	q
7	3		11.24
8	9		11.75	SB

Quarterfinals

First 4 of each Heat directly qualified (Q) for the Semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	7		10.01	Q
2	8		10.02	Q
3	6		10.13	Q, NR
4	4		10.16	Q
5	2		10.32
6	3		10.37
7	9		10.39
8	5		10.44

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	4		10.06	Q
2	7		10.13	Q
3	9		10.24	Q
4	5		10.28	Q
5	8		10.31
6	6		10.33
7	3		10.39
8	2		10.44

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	4		10.10	Q
2	7		10.17	Q, SB
3	5		10.20	Q, SB
4	6		10.23	Q
5	9		10.29
6	8		10.29
7	2		10.36
8	3		10.41

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	4		10.21	Q
2	9		10.21	Q
3	5		10.26	Q
4	3		10.30	Q
5	7		10.31
6	2		10.38
7	6		10.40
8	8		10.42

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	6		10.04	Q
2	4		10.08	Q
3	9		10.17	Q
4	5		10.21	Q
5	2		10.21	SB
6	7		10.29
7	8		10.29
8	3		10.36

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time (sec Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Notes
1	4		10.00	Q
2	7		10.12	Q
3	6		10.15	Q
4	9		10.18	Q
5	5		10.19
6	2		10.20	SB
7	3		10.28
8	8		10.28

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
		9.85
		9.91	NR
		9.96
4		10.07	SB
5		10.08
6		10.14
7		10.23
8		10.29