2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres


The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder. Gay entered the competition with a season's best of 9.77 seconds while Bolt's season's best was 9.79 seconds. Four other competitors had broken the 10-second barrier during the last months before the World Championship: former world record holder Asafa Powell, Olympic finalist Churandy Martina and emerging sprinters Daniel Bailey and Mike Rodgers.
The first day saw a number of high-profile athletes eliminated; Derrick Atkins, the 2007 silver medallist, did not pass the first round. Churandy Martina, area record holders Samuel Francis and Olusoji Fasuba, Simeon Williamson, and 2003 gold medallist Kim Collins were all knocked out in the quarter finals. Also, a double false start meant disqualification for the new European junior record holder Christophe Lemaitre. Gay, Powell and Rodgers ended with the fastest times of the day, although Bolt and Bailey comfortably won heat five, exchanging smiles and glances in the process. The semi-finals saw Bolt—typically slow out of the blocks—false start for the first time over 100 m, but he eventually finished in 9.89 seconds. Six of the eight qualifying athletes broke 10 seconds, and US champion Rodgers was the biggest name not to qualify.
The final, which was advertised in Berlin as "Das Duell" between Gay and Bolt, proved to be historic. By the 20-metre mark, Bolt had already taken a slight lead of 0.01 seconds, and he continued to pull away from the rest of the pack until the finish. He finished in a world record-breaking time of 9.58 seconds, beating Gay by some distance, even though the American had run 9.71 seconds, which was the third fastest time ever. Bolt beat his own previous mark by over a tenth of a second, an achievement statisticians claimed was 20 years ahead of schedule in the long term scheme of the 100 metres world record progression. So emphatic was Bolt's winning time, that both bronze medal winner Powell and sixth placed Dwain Chambers said they were happy just taking part in the fastest race in history.

Medalists

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record9.69Beijing, China16 August 2008
Championship record9.80Seville, Spain22 August 1999
World Leading9.77Rome, Italy10 July 2009
African record9.85Doha, Qatar12 May 2006
Asian record9.99Amman, Jordan26 July 2007
North American record9.69Beijing, China16 August 2008
South American record10.00Mexico, Mexico22 July 1988
European record9.86Athens, Greece22 August 2004
Oceanian record9.93Mito, Japan5 May 2003

The following new world, championship and North American records were set during the competition.
DateEventAthleteTimeNotes
16 AugustFinal9.58 sWR, CR, WL

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat and the next 4 fastest advance to the [|quarterfinals].
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Tyson Gay10.16Q
4Dwain Chambers10.18Q
9Usain Bolt10.20Q
8Samuel Francis10.21Q
6Christophe Lemaitre10.23Q
8Emmanuel Callander10.24Q
12Michael Rodgers10.25Q
5Daniel Bailey10.26Q
2Darvis Patton10.26Q
8Churandy Martina10.26Q
118Daniel Grueso10.27q
123Martial Mbandjock10.28Q
1211Kim Collins10.28Q
1212Naoki Tsukahara10.28Q
128Rolando Palacios10.28q, SB
161Michael Frater10.30Q
167Andrew Hinds10.30Q
169Gerald Phiri10.30Q
169Egwero Ogho-Oghene10.30Q
204Olusoji Fasuba10.31Q
214Monzavous Edwards10.32Q
227Simeon Williamson10.34Q
232Emanuele Di Gregorio10.35Q
235Jaysuma Saidy Ndure10.35Q
2312Adam Harris10.35Q
237Ronald Pognon10.35Q
237Martin Keller10.35q, SB
2810Richard Thompson10.36Q
2811Fabio Cerutti10.36Q
305Adrian Griffith10.37Q
313Obinna Metu10.38Q
312Masashi Eriguchi10.38Q
313Asafa Powell10.38Q
346Marc Burns10.39Q
347Ángel David Rodríguez10.39q, SB
363Aziz Ouhadi10.40
371Arnaldo Abrantes10.41Q
372Barakat Al-Harthi10.41
374Ben Youssef Meité10.41
4010Tyrone Edgar10.42Q
409Bryan Barnett10.42
405Tobias Unger10.42
433Derrick Atkins 10.44
446Dariusz Kuć10.46Q
445Adrian Durant10.46
461Shintaro Kimura10.47Q
4612Ramon Gittens10.47
481Simone Collio10.49
492Stefan Schwab10.50
5012Cédric Nabe10.51
511Matic Osovnikar10.52
524Shehan Abeypitiyage 10.53
5310Simon Magakwe 10.54Q
537Basílio de Moraes Júnior10.54
559José Carlos Moreira10.55
551Béranger Aymard Bosse10.55
5710Aziz Zakari10.57
586Ryan Moseley10.58
5911Kemar Hyman10.59
604Wilfried Bingangoye10.62
612Liaquat Ali10.64
626Franklin Nazareno10.71
6311Carlos Jorge10.73
6410Idrissa Sanou10.74
658Fernando Lumain10.76
666Chi Ho Tsui10.77
6710Mhadjou Youssouf10.89SB
6812Danny D'Souza10.92
691Jack Iroga10.98SB
708Hussain Haleem11.00NR
718Suwaibou Sanneh 11.02SB
7210Desislav Gunev11.07
734Mohamed Faisal 11.12PB
742Oumar Bella Bah11.20PB
753Ivano Bucci11.24
755Jurgen Themen 11.24
777Denvil Ruan11.31PB
789Aisea Tohi11.32
786Mohamed Masudul Karim11.32SB
8011Aaron Victorian11.37PB
8111Tiraa Arere11.55
829Okilani Tinilau11.57SB
833Leon Mengloi11.60PB
847Soulisack Silisavadymao11.66SB
8510Nooa Takooa 11.74PB
866Quaski Itaia11.76SB
875Yondan Namelo11.78PB
884Masoud Azizi11.79SB
8912Phillip Poznanski11.97PB
9012Clayton Kenty12.29PB
1Dominic CarrollDNF
2Delivert Arsene KimbembeDNS

Quarterfinals

Qualification: First 3 in each heat and the next 1 fastest advance to the [|semifinals].
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
3Asafa Powell9.95Q
4Tyson Gay9.98Q
2Michael Rodgers10.01Q
5Daniel Bailey10.02Q
5Usain Bolt10.03Q
1Dwain Chambers10.04Q, SB
3Darvis Patton10.05Q
1Richard Thompson10.08Q
4Michael Frater10.09Q
102Tyrone Edgar10.12Q
103Marc Burns 10.12Q
125Monzavous Edwards 10.15Q
122Naoki Tsukahara 10.15Q
144Jaysuma Saidy Ndure10.16Q
142Gerald Phiri10.16q, NR
165Churandy Martina 10.19
162Egwero Ogho-Oghene10.19
183Kim Collins10.20
183Samuel Francis10.20
201Martial Mbandjock10.22Q
214Andrew Hinds10.23
215Simeon Williamson 10.23
235Rolando Palacios10.24SB
243Olusoji Fasuba 10.25
251Emanuele Di Gregorio10.26
265Emmanuel Callander 10.27
263Ronald Pognon10.27
284Adrian Griffith10.28
294Obinna Metu10.36
304Fabio Cerutti10.37
315Dariusz Kuć10.38
321Adam Harris10.39
324Ángel David Rodríguez10.39SB
341Arnaldo Abrantes10.40
341Martin Keller10.40
361Masashi Eriguchi 10.45
373Shintaro Kimura 10.54
382Simon Magakwe 10.71
2Christophe LemaitreDSQ
2Daniel GruesoDSQ

Semifinals

First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified for the Finals.

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityReactTimeNotes
16Usain Bolt 0.1359.89Q
24Daniel Bailey0.1359.96Q
33Darvis Patton0.1529.98Q, SB
48Marc Burns0.15910.01Q, SB
55Michael Rodgers0.15410.04
61Martial Mbandjock0.13810.18
72Jaysuma Saidy Ndure0.14310.20
7Tyrone EdgarDSQ

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityReactTimeNotes
15Tyson Gay0.1439.93Q
24Asafa Powell0.1339.95Q
33Richard Thompson0.1329.98Q, SB
46Dwain Chambers0.18210.04Q, SB
57Michael Frater0.15310.14
62Monzavous Edwards0.14610.14
71Gerald Phiri 0.14310.19
88Naoki Tsukahara0.15210.25

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityReactTimeNotes
4Usain Bolt0.1469.58WR
5Tyson Gay0.1449.71NR
6Asafa Powell0.1349.84SB
43Daniel Bailey0.1299.93
58Richard Thompson0.1199.93SB
61Dwain Chambers0.12110.00SB
72Marc Burns0.16510.00SB
87Darvis Patton0.14910.34