Heats

The first round was held on 8 July. The first two runners of each heat qualified for the second round.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Howard Kinsman		21.8	Q
2	André Mourlon		21.8	Q
3	Pietro Pastorino		22.1
4	James Hall		22.5
5	José-María Larrabeiti

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Bayes Morton		21.8	Q
2	Cyril Coaffee Cyril Coaffee Cyril Coaffee was a Canadian track and field athlete.Born in Edmonton Greater London UK, he tied Charlie Paddock's world record for the 100 yard dash at the 1922 Canadian championships....			Q
3	Carlos Garces
4	Félix Mendizábal

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Eric Liddell Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...		22.2	Q
2	Rudolf Rauch		22.6	Q
3	Joseph Hilger
4	Herminio Ahumada

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Arthur Porritt		22.4	Q
2	Larry Armstrong			Q
3	Karl Borner
4	Lauri Härö
5	Diego Ordoñéz

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Henricus Broos		22.6	Q
2	George Dunston			Q
3	Paul Hammer
4	Mogens Truelsen
5	Oto Seviško

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Jackson Scholz Jackson Scholz Jackson Volney Scholz was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games...		22.4	Q
2	Gordon Hester			Q
3	Terence Pitt
4	Pierre Parrain

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Slip Carr Slip Carr Edwin William "Slip" Carr was a rugby union player who represented Australia, an Australian 100 and 200 metre sprinter, and Olympic team member at the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Early life:...		22.6	Q
2	William Lowe		23.0	Q
3	Jan de Vries Jan de Vries (athlete) Jan Cornelis de Vries was a Dutch athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres....		23.2

Heat 8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	John MacKechenneay		23.2	Q
2	Roy Norman			Q
3	Alexandros Papafingos
4	Alois Linka

Heat 9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	William Nichol		22.6	Q
2	Ferenc Gerő			Q
3	José Martínez

Heat 10

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Harold Abrahams Harold Abrahams Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...		22.2	Q
2	Charles Paddock		22.3	Q
3	Gentil dos Santos		23.0
4	Johannes van Kampen		23.1

Heat 11

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Paul Brochart		23.0	Q
2	Konstantinos Pantelidis			Q
3	Stanko Perpar

Heat 12

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Lajos Kurunczy		22.6	Q
2	Sasago Tani			Q
3	Gvido Jekals

Heat 13

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	George Hill George Hill (athlete) George Neville Hill known as Neville Hill was a New Zealand track and field athlete who competed as a member of the Australasian team in the 1912 Summer Olympics at Stockholm....		22.0	Q
2	Thomas Matthewman			Q
3	Alvaro de Oliveira
4	Aleksander Szenajch		22.8
5	Mariano Aguilar

Heat 14

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Joseph Jackson		22.8	Q
2	Félix Escobar		23.0	Q
3	Zygmunt Weiss		23.4

Heat 15

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Maurice Degrelle		22.6	Q
2	Marinus van den Berge			Q
3	David Nepomuceno David Nepomuceno David Nepomuceno was the first Filipino to compete in the Olympics. He was a runner and the sole representative of the Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. In 1925, Nepomuceno ran the 100 meters in only two-tenths of a second short of the then-world record.-Early Athletic...

Heat 16

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Sean Lavan		23.2	Q
2	Juan Junquera			Q
3	Reinhold Kesküll

Heat 17

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Valéry Théard		23.6	Q
2	Jānis Oja			Q
3	Mohamed Burhan

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were held on July 8. The first two runners of each heat qualified for the semifinals.

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Charles Paddock		22.2	Q
2	William Nichol		22.6	Q
3	George Dunston
4	Jānis Oja
5	Rudolf Rauch

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Slip Carr Slip Carr Edwin William "Slip" Carr was a rugby union player who represented Australia, an Australian 100 and 200 metre sprinter, and Olympic team member at the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Early life:...		21.8	Q
2	Eric Liddell Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...			Q
3	Joseph Jackson
4	Sean Lavan
5	John MacKechenneay
6	Juan Junquera

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Jackson Scholz Jackson Scholz Jackson Volney Scholz was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games...		21.8	Q
2	Cyril Coaffee Cyril Coaffee Cyril Coaffee was a Canadian track and field athlete.Born in Edmonton Greater London UK, he tied Charlie Paddock's world record for the 100 yard dash at the 1922 Canadian championships....			Q
3	Sasago Tani
4	Valéry Théard
5	Roy Norman
6	Kostas Pantelidis

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Harold Abrahams Harold Abrahams Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...		22.0	Q
2	Bayes Norton		22.3	Q
3	Maurice Degrelle		22.4
4	Ferenc Gerő		22.4
5	Laurie Armstrong
6	Félix Escobar

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Arthur Porritt		22.0	Q
2	André Mourlon		22.1	Q
3	Lajos Kurunczy
4	Thomas Matthewman
5	William Lowe
6	Marinus van den Berge

Quarterfinal 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	George Hill George Hill (athlete) George Neville Hill known as Neville Hill was a New Zealand track and field athlete who competed as a member of the Australasian team in the 1912 Summer Olympics at Stockholm....		21.8	Q
2	Howard Kinsman			Q
3	Paul Brochart
4	Gordon Hester
5	Henricus Broos

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on July 9. The first three runners from each semifinal qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Jackson Scholz Jackson Scholz Jackson Volney Scholz was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games...		21.8	Q
2	George Hill George Hill (athlete) George Neville Hill known as Neville Hill was a New Zealand track and field athlete who competed as a member of the Australasian team in the 1912 Summer Olympics at Stockholm....		21.8	Q
3	Harold Abrahams Harold Abrahams Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...		21.9	Q
4	Slip Carr Slip Carr Edwin William "Slip" Carr was a rugby union player who represented Australia, an Australian 100 and 200 metre sprinter, and Olympic team member at the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Early life:...		22.1
5	William Nichol		22.4
6	Arthur Porritt		22.6

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Qual.
1	Charles Paddock		21.8	Q
2	Eric Liddell Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...		21.8	Q
3	Bayes Norton		22.1	Q
4	André Mourlon		22.2
5	Howard Kinsman		22.3
6	Cyril Coaffee Cyril Coaffee Cyril Coaffee was a Canadian track and field athlete.Born in Edmonton Greater London UK, he tied Charlie Paddock's world record for the 100 yard dash at the 1922 Canadian championships....		22.4

Final

The final was held on July 9.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Result
	4	Jackson Scholz Jackson Scholz Jackson Volney Scholz was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprint. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games...		21.6
	6	Charles Paddock		21.7
	5	Eric Liddell Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...		21.9
4	1	George Hill George Hill (athlete) George Neville Hill known as Neville Hill was a New Zealand track and field athlete who competed as a member of the Australasian team in the 1912 Summer Olympics at Stockholm....		22.0
5	3	Bayes Norton		22.0
6	2	Harold Abrahams Harold Abrahams Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...		22.3