Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Date	21–22 August
Competitors	82 from 62 nations
Winning time	9.85 s
Medalists
Justin Gatlin  United States Francis Obikwelu  Portugal Maurice Greene  United States
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Athletics at the 2004 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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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The men's 100 metres was of one of 23 track events of the athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens. It was contested at the Athens Olympic Stadium, from August 21 to 22, by a total of 82 sprinters from 62 nations.^[1][2] Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress.

The event was won by Justin Gatlin of the United States, the nation's second consecutive title and 16th overall in the event. Portugal earned its first medal in the men's 100 metres, with Francis Obikwelu's silver. The final was the fastest and most disputed in Olympic history, with six runners covering the distance in 10.00 seconds or less (four of them under the 9.90 mark), and the gold and bronze medalist athletes separated by 0.02 seconds.

The medals for the competition were presented by Juan Antonio Samaranch, IOC Hononary President for Life, Spain; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Lamine Diack, IAAF President, Senegal.

Background

This was the twenty-fifth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. All three finalists from 2000 returned: defending gold medalist Maurice Greene of the United States, silver medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago, and bronze medalist Obadele Thompson of Barbados, along with three other finalists (Darren Campbell of Great Britain, Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Aziz Zakari of Ghana). Two-time silver medalist (1992 and 1996) Frankie Fredericks of Namibia also returned after missing the Sydney Games with injury.

Collins was the reigning (2003) world champion, as well as Commonwealth champion. Francis Obikwelu of Portugal had won the 2002 European Championship. On the United States team, along with an aging Greene (still a medal contender, but no longer as dominant as in 2000), was a young Justin Gatlin.^[2]

Aruba, Jordan, Kiribati, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Slovenia appeared in the event for the first time. The United States made its 24rd appearance in the event, most of any country, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

The Olympic qualification period for the athletics ran from 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For this event, each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter up to three athletes, provided they had run below 10.21 seconds during this period in IAAF-sanctioned meetings or tournaments. If a NOC had no athletes qualified under this standard, it could enter up to one athlete that had run below 10.28 seconds.

Competition format

The event retained the same basic four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The "fastest loser" system, introduced in 1968, was used again to ensure that the quarterfinals and subsequent rounds had exactly 8 runners per heat; this time, the system was used in both the heats and quarterfinals.

The first round consisted of 10 heats, each with 8 or 9 athletes. The top three runners in each heat advanced, along with the next ten fastest runners overall. This made 40 quarterfinalists, who were divided into 5 heats of 8 runners. The top three runners in each quarterfinal advanced, with one "fastest loser" place. The 16 semifinalists competed in two heats of 8, with the top four in each semifinal advancing to the eight-man final.^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Tim Montgomery (USA)	9.78 s	Paris, France	14 September 2002
Olympic record	Donovan Bailey (CAN)	9.84 s	Atlanta, United States	27 July 1996

No new records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 21 August 2004	10:35 19:40	Round 1 Round 2
Sunday, 22 August 2004	20:55 23:10	Semifinals Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification rule: The first three finishers in each heat (Q) plus the ten fastest times of those who finished fourth or lower in their heat (q) qualified.^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	0.152	10.12	Q, SB
2	3	Uchenna Emedolu	Nigeria	0.222	10.22	Q
3	4	Shingo Suetsugu	Japan	0.174	10.27	Q
4	7	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	0.159	10.35
5	9	Chen Haijian	China	0.181	10.45
6	2	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	0.160	10.54
7	6	Poh Seng Song	Singapore	0.160	10.75
8	8	Yazaldes Nascimento	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.185	11.00
				Wind: −0.2 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	5	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain	0.149	10.13	Q, SB
2	7	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	0.188	10.19	Q
3	6	Roland Németh	Hungary	0.137	10.28	Q
4	3	Salem Mubarak Al Yami	Saudi Arabia	0.143	10.36
5	4	Darren Gilford	Malta	0.177	10.67
6	8	Khalil Al Hanahneh	Jordan	0.172	10.76
7	2	Kakianako Nariki	Kiribati	0.183	11.62
—	9	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago		DSQ	R 162.7
				Wind: −0.4 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	8	Justin Gatlin	United States	0.204	10.07	Q
2	6	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	0.156	10.15	Q, SB
3	9	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	0.133	10.21	Q, SB
4	4	Vicente de Lima	Brazil	0.169	10.23	q
5	1	Andrey Yepishin	Russia	0.146	10.29	q
6	2	Georgios Theodoridis	Greece	0.141	10.32	q
7	5	Hadhari Djaffar	Comoros	0.163	10.62
8	7	Sultan Saeed	Maldives	0.239	11.72
—	3	Juan Sainfleur	Dominican Republic	0.164	DNF
				Wind: −0.1 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	6	Shawn Crawford	United States	0.184	10.02	Q
2	1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	0.141	10.08	Q, SB
3	4	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	0.112	10.15	Q, NR
4	5	Idrissa Sanou	Burkina Faso	0.175	10.33	q
5	3	Diego Ferreira	Paraguay	0.141	10.50	NR
6	9	Pierre de Windt	Aruba	0.234	11.02
7	7	Chamleunesouk Ao Oudomphonh	Laos	0.202	11.30
8	8	Masoud Azizi	Afghanistan	0.217	11.66
—	2	Hristoforos Hoidis	Greece		DNS
				Wind: +0.8 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	2	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	0.165	10.09	Q
2	5	Ronald Pognon	France	0.150	10.18	Q
3	3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	The Gambia	0.157	10.26	Q, NR
4	8	Jarbas Mascarenhas	Brazil	0.147	10.34	q
5	7	Hiroyasu Tsuchie	Japan	0.182	10.37
6	9	Adrian Durant	Virgin Islands	0.223	10.52
7	6	Nabie Foday Fofanah	Guinea	0.158	10.62
8	4	Harmon Harmon	Cook Islands	0.173	11.22	PB
				Wind: +0.1 m/s

Heat 6

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Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Reaction	Time	Notes
1	7	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	0.162	10.33	Q
2	3	Łukasz Chyła	Poland	0.167	10.35	Q
3	4	Eric Pacome N'Dri