Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

The men's 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...

sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

took place between July 20 and July 21. The final was won by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Lindy Remigino

Lindy John Remigino is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.-Biography:Remigino was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York in 1931...

Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the twelve heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Time
1	John Treloar	10.92
2	Alan Lillington	11.06
3	Gabriel Lareya	11.18
4	Miroslav Horčic	11.23
5	Ásmundur Bjarnason	11.40
6	Youssef Ali Omar	11.53
7	José Julio Barillas	11.56

Heat two

Rank	Name	Time
1	Étienne Bally Étienne Bally Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...	10.97
2	Angel Kolev	11.01
3	Paul Dolan Paul Dolan Kenneth Paul Dolan is a former Canadian national team and Canadian Soccer League goalkeeper.-Club career:...	11.12
4	Raúl Mazorra	11.19
5	Robert Hutchinson	11.26
6	Masaji Tajima	11.29
7	Adulya Vanastit	11.61

Heat three

Rank	Name	Time
1	McDonald Bailey	10.65
2	Carlo Vittori	10.98
3	Mikhail Kazantsev	11.16
4	Hörður Haraldsson	11.32
5	Javier Souza	11.31
6	Stefanos Petrakis	11.33

Heat four

Rank	Name	Time
1	William Jack	11.05
2	Romeo Galán	11.11
3	Levan Sanadze Levan Sanadze Levan Sanadze was a Georgian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Boris Tokarev, Levan Kalyayev and Vladimir Sukharev....	11.13
4	Emad El-Din Shafei	11.40
5	Guillermo Gutiérrez	11.42
6	Boonterm Pakpuang	11.85

Heat five

Rank	Name	Time
1	Herb McKenley Herb McKenley Competitor for JamaicaHerbert Henry "Herb" McKenley OM was a Jamaican athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics....	10.88
2	György Csányi György Csányi György Csányi was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed for Hungary at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay with his team mates László Zarándi, Géza Varasdi and Béla Goldoványi....	11.09
3	Emil Kiszka	11.13
4	Pauli Tavisalo	11.30
5	Tomás Paquete	11.45
6	Walter Sutton Walter Sutton Walter Stanborough Sutton was an American geneticist and physician whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms...	11.45

Heat six

Rank	Name	Time
1	David Tabak	11.12
2	Tomio Hosoda	11.14
3	Willy Schneider	11.22
4	Angel Gavrilov	11.29
5	Juan Leiva	11.31

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Time
1	Vladimir Sukharev	10.93
2	Theo Saat	11.02
3	Muhammad Sharif Butt	11.17
4	Voitto Hellstén Voitto Hellstén Voitto Valdemar Hellsten was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.He competed for Finland in three Summer Olympics, in 1952, 1956 and 1960...	11.36
5	George Acquaah	11.47
6	Mariano Acosta Mariano Acosta Mariano Acosta was an Argentine lawyer and politician.-Life and times:Acosta was born in 1825 to Magdalena Santa Coloma Lezica, the daughter of a prominent Buenos Aires Province landowner, and José Francisco Acosta, from Corrientes Province...	11.58
7	Wolfgango Montanari	12.25

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Time
1	Rafael Fortún Rafael Fortún Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...	10.93
2	Byron LaBeach	11.09
3	Franco Leccese	11.18
4	Issi Baran	11.32
5	Fritz Griesser	11.54

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Werner Zandt	11.03
2	Muhammad Aslam Muhammad Aslam Sardar Muhammad Aslam Baggra was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as back....	11.18
3	Don McFarlane Don McFarlane Don McFarlane was a Canadian sprinter.-Life:While at Burlington High School Don played as a half-back on both the Junior and Senior Football teams and was a member of the 1948 Championship senior team...	11.25
4	Zdeněk Pospíšil	11.25
5	Edward Ajado	11.25
6	Fawzi Chaaban	11.51
-	Enrique Beckles		DQ

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Time
1	Art Bragg Art Bragg Arthur "Art" George Bragg is an American athlete who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was born in Baltimore.In 1952 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Olympic 100 metres event....	10.73
2	Hans Wehrli	11.00
3	Titus Erinle	11.12
4	László Zarándi László Zarándi László Zarándi was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He began his career in sport in 1946/47 as a soccer player in the team of SZVSE. At the high school he continued to play soccer, but trained also in athletics: 100 meter and high jump...	11.26
5	Pétur Sigurðsson	11.55
6	Aroon Sankosik	11.76

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Time
1	Lindy Remigino Lindy Remigino Lindy John Remigino is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.-Biography:Remigino was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York in 1931...	10.73
2	Lavy Pinto	11.00
3	René Bonino	11.00
4	František Brož František Brož František Brož was a Czech violist, composer, conductor and music educator.-Biography:Brož studied violin at the Prague Conservatory with Jindřich Baštař. He later studied composition with Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák, and conducting under Otakar Ostrčil and Václav Talich...	11.32
5	Abdul Aziz	11.48
6	Rui Maia	11.79

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Time
1	Dean Smith Dean Smith Dean Edwards Smith is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...	10.90
2	Alain Porthault	11.04
3	Erich Fuchs	11.19
4	Karim Olowu	11.27

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey	10.73
2	John Treloar	10.84
3	Alain Porthault	10.99
4	Muhammad Aslam Muhammad Aslam Sardar Muhammad Aslam Baggra was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as back....	11.02
5	Byron LaBeach	11.05
-	Angel Kolev		DQ

Heat two

Rank	Name	Time
1	Lindy Remigino Lindy Remigino Lindy John Remigino is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.-Biography:Remigino was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York in 1931...	10.68
2	Theo Saat	10.93
3	Lavy Pinto	10.98
4	Étienne Bally Étienne Bally Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...	10.98
5	Hans Wehrli	11.05
6	Alan Lillington	11.26

Heat three

Rank	Name	Time
1	Dean Smith Dean Smith Dean Edwards Smith is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...	10.69
2	Rafael Fortún Rafael Fortún Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...	10.90
3	William Jack	10.94
4	Werner Zandt	10.98
5	Romeo Galán	11.08
6	David Tabak	11.10

Heat four

Rank	Name	Time
1	Herb McKenley Herb McKenley Competitor for JamaicaHerbert Henry "Herb" McKenley OM was a Jamaican athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics....	10.72
2	Art Bragg Art Bragg Arthur "Art" George Bragg is an American athlete who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was born in Baltimore.In 1952 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Olympic 100 metres event....	10.75
3	Vladimir Sukharev	10.92
4	Tomio Hosoda	11.03
5	György Csányi György Csányi György Csányi was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.He competed for Hungary at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay with his team mates László Zarándi, Géza Varasdi and Béla Goldoványi....	11.07
6	Carlo Vittori	11.79

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Time
1	McDonald Bailey	10.74
2	Dean Smith Dean Smith Dean Edwards Smith is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...	10.78
3	Vladimir Sukharev	10.86
4	Lavy Pinto	10.94
5	Alain Porthault	11.04
6	Art Bragg Art Bragg Arthur "Art" George Bragg is an American athlete who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was born in Baltimore.In 1952 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Olympic 100 metres event....	11.43

Heat two

Rank	Name	Time
1	Herb McKenley Herb McKenley Competitor for JamaicaHerbert Henry "Herb" McKenley OM was a Jamaican athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics....	10.74
2	Lindy Remigino Lindy Remigino Lindy John Remigino is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.-Biography:Remigino was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York in 1931...	10.74
3	John Treloar	10.76
4	Rafael Fortún Rafael Fortún Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...	10.92
5	William Jack	11.01
6	Theo Saat	11.12

Final

Rank	Name	Time
	Lindy Remigino Lindy Remigino Lindy John Remigino is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.-Biography:Remigino was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York in 1931...	10.79
	Herb McKenley Herb McKenley Competitor for JamaicaHerbert Henry "Herb" McKenley OM was a Jamaican athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics....	10.80
	McDonald Bailey	10.83
4	Dean Smith Dean Smith Dean Edwards Smith is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful 36-year coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...	10.84
5	Vladimir Sukharev	10.88
6	John Treloar	10.91

Key: DQ = Disqualified

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.